PSS - Exhibits at Meetings

1856-57

Items were regularly exhibited at PSS Meetings.  See below:

NOTE:  Most of these tables have been compiled from manuscript notes.  In some cases the writing was unclear.   Hence the "(?)"s in these tables.

Exhibits at Meetings:   1856-57     1858-59     1860-62     1863-64     1865-66  

Date of Meeting

Exhibitor

 Items exhibited  - 
 
1856-57

8 4 1856

Horatio Ross

-   A large folding camera made by Mr Bell of Potterow

8 4 1856

Horatio Ross

-   A portable tent for working in the open air, more especially with the Collodian process.

8 4 1856

Mr Wood
of Princes Street

-   A collection of photographs of figure subjects artistically arranged by Mr Rejlander of Wolverhampton

13 5 1856

Mr Walker(?)

-   Exhibition of a new portable camera made by Mr Bell of Potterow, capable of taking pictures 8 ins. square, weighing 8 ¾ lbs. without the lens and folding into a space 18 ins. long by 10 broad and 2 ½ deep.

13 5 1856

Mr Horatio Ross

-   Description of  the new Photogalrauographic (?) process of Messrs. Pritsch (?) + exhibition of specimens of prints.

13 5 1856

Mr Wood

-   A portfolio of photographs printed by Mr Sutton by his process of development.

10 6 1856

Mr Drummond,
Ross & Thomson, 
Mr Watson and others

-   Exhibition of photographs

8 7 1856

Capt. Cumrie (?)

-   Exhibition of paper negatives by Dr. Drummond’s process of Views of Bruges, done by Capt. Cumrie (?)

8 7 1856

John Orange

-   An apparatus for carrying a number of prepared glass plates, for transferring them to the camera in the open air one after the other.

8 7 1856

C G H Kinnear

-   A papier maché photo disk made by Messrs Jenners and Bettridge.    "Strongly recommended"

8 7 1856

C G H Kinnear

-   A large lot of photographs of Italy and Germany.

11 11 1856

Mr Mackinlay

-   Exhibition and description of a new form of double stereoscopic camera, taking a series of views in the open air without a dark tent.

11 11 1856

Mr Mackinlay

-   A mode of working the Taupenot (?) & Honey process + exhibition of  some stereoscopic pictures that Mr Mackinlay had taken by these methods.

9 12 1856

N Macpherson

-   Details of N Macpherson’s process of photolithography. 
+ exhibition of two prints by that process.

13 1 1857

-   Exhibition of a collection of photographs was exhibited by Mr. W Johnson

10 2 1857

James Wood

-   Exhibition of a  series of framed photogaloamographic (?) engravings by James Wood 

10 2 1857

MR Orange

-  A series of Photographic Views, exhibited by the magic lantern and lime light.

10 3 1857

[Hon Secretary]

-   Exhibition of and explanation of a new form of portable camera invented by Capt. Fowke RE, and patented in his name by Messrs Hove & ……(?)

12 5 1857

Mr Tunny

-   Exhibition and explanation of Mr Tunny's newly invented apparatus for printing stereoscopic transparencies on wet collodion.

12 5 1857

Mr Walker

-   A number of calotypes exhibited, and  some observations made on the use of cyanide of potass. in the bromo-Iodizing solution.

9 6 1857

Messrs McKinlay & Zeigler,  Prof. Wilson

-   Specimens of negative photographs on albumenized paper were exhibited by Messrs McKinlay & Zeigler and parchment paper by Prof. Wilson.

14 7 1857

Mr Tunny

-  Mr Tunny exhibited pictures by his newly discovered process of heliography.  

15 1 1857

A Bryson

-   Mr A Bryson exhibited and described his apparatus for micro-photography.

 

Exhibits at Meetings:   1856-57     1858-59     1860-62     1863-64     1865-66  

 

 

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