Exhibits at PSS Meetings

1856

8 April 1856

Horatio Ross

A large folding camera made by Mr Bell of Potterow

8 April 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 B…lander(?) of Wolverhampton

13 May 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 May 1856

Mr Horatio Ross

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

13 May 1856

Mr Wood

A Portfolio of Photographs printed by Mr Sutton by his process of development.

10 June 1856

Mr Drummond,
Messrs Ross & Thomson,
Mr Watson and others

Exhibition of photographs

8 July 1856

Capt. Cumrie (?)

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

8 July 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 July 1856

C G H Kinnear

A Papier maché photo disk made by Messrs Jenners and Bettridge
[- strongly recommended]

8 July 1856

C G H Kinnear

A large lot of Photographs of Italy and Germany.

11 November 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 November 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 December 1856

N Macpherson

Details of N Macpherson’s process of Photolithography. 
[+ exhibition of two prints by that process]