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Aristo  Motto 


'"1  ^  TE  believe  permanency  is  the 
»  »  Keystone  of  Photographic 
Success,  and  all  brands  of  paper 
bearing  our  Trade-mark  are  manu- 
factured on  this  principle.  We  hold 
our  consumer's  reputation  and  suc- 
cess identical  with  our  own.  We 
surround  both  with  every  safe- 
guard known  to  chemical  science 
and  oiu:  own  experience." 


PRESIDENT  WILLIAM  H.  TAFT 

Copyright  IMS,  by  Pack  Bros. 


ana  the  :?^R.lKS"rO  ^^p^GY^B^ 


A  JMagazinc    of    Information    for   the   Profession 


NEW  SERIES 

Vol.  1     Xo.  1 


M  A  Tt  r  H   1909 


OLD   SERI ES 

N  <i .  it  s 


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ALUTATORY 


With  this  issue  the  Eagle 
spreads  its  wings  to  cover  the 
whole  professional  nest. 

Devoted  bird  that  it  is,  it  still 
looks  Avith  greatest  fondness  at 
the  largest,  roundest  and  whitest 
egg  —  Aristo.  But  it  is  a  big 
enough,  strong  enough  and  broad 
enough  Eagle  to  foster  the  other 
eggs  as  well.  It  will  do  its  duty 
by  them. 

When  the  Aristo  School,  Avhich 
was  originally  inaugurated  to 
help  the  jjrofession  in  the  use  of 
Aristo  and  the  Aristo  Lamj),  came 
to  its  full  groAvth,  it  became  ap- 
parent that  there  Avere  so  many 
things  of  interest  to  the  profession 
that  —  for  the  benefit  of  every- 
body concerned — its  scope  should 
be  broadened.  And  so  it  became 
the  Eastman  School  of  Profession- 
al Photography,  but  Aristo  still 
held  and  continues  to  hold  the 
center  of  the  stage — Avith  the  cal- 
cium light  turned  on  to  the  full. 

LikeAvise  there  is  every  reason 
why  the  Eagle  should  be  also 
broadened  in  its  scope.  There 
are  a  thousand  and  one  side  lights 
that  are  of  value  to  all  of   us. 


Avhich  can  be  throAvn  on  studio 
Avork.  We  Avant  to  be  helpful  to 
j'ou  in  your  everyday  Avork  and 
to  tell  j'ou  monthly  about  the  new 
goods  and  the  new  methods  that 
are  interesting  from  your  stand- 
point and  our  own.  Whenever 
Ave  can  ])ick  up  a  good  idea,  an 
idea  that  Avill  be  helpful  to  you 
in  broadening  your  business,  we 
Avant  to  be  alile  to  give  it  to  you. 
There's  a  mutuality  in  your  liusi- 
ness  and  ours.  Whatever  tends 
to  the  Avelfare  of  the  one,  tends 
also  to  the  Avelfare  of  the  other. 
And  so  we  propose  to  broaden 
the  scope  of  the  Eagle  until  it 
covers  the  AA'hole  field  of  profes- 
sional photography. 

This  liy  no  means  implies  that 
there  Avill  be  less  attention  jiaid 
to  Aristo  —  it  means  simplj'  that 
there  Avill  be  more  said  about 
other  matters  that  are  of  vital  in- 
terest to  you  and  to  us. 

And  so,  to  be  consistent,  there 
is  Avith  this  number  a  new  title 
—  a  broader  title  that  Avill,  we 
hope,  prove  typical  of  the  Avork 
that  this  journal  is  to  accomplish : 

STUDIO    LIGHT  and 

the  ARISTO  EAGLE. 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


T    ET  HER  RUN  IT 

■* — *  Leave  the  studio  in  charge 
of  the  receptionist  for  a  week? 
Certainly  —  if  she  is  as  sharp  and 
business-Uke  as  the  average,  she 
is  certainly  competent  to  run  your 
studio  for  a  Aveek  in  midsummer. 
No  one  to  make  sittings?  No 
matter,  just  let  her  tell  the  pro- 
spective customers  that  you  have 
gone  to  attend  the  National  Pho- 
tographers Convention,  and  will 
have  all  sorts  of  new  ideas  when 
j^ou  return,  and  the3''ll  wait  for 
you  all  right  and  be  more  than 
willing  to. 

"Haven't  got  time  to  attend 
conventions" — that  doesn't  de- 
serve a  repl}'.  "Can't  afford  it" 
—  yes,  but  j'ou  can;  whatever 
you  spend  in  attending  the  Nat- 
ional this  year  will  be  returned 
to  you  many  fold,  in  the  shape  of 
valuable  ideas,  rest,  recreation, 
good  fellowship  and  change  of 
scene. 

"Conventions  don't  do  any 
good."  Of  course  they  don't,  if 
j^ou  stay  at  home,  or  attend 
because  you  feel  that  you  have  to. 
Conventions  dodo  good,  and  lots 
of  it,  to  the  man  who  attends 
determined  to  learn  something, 
and  to  have  a  good  time. 

"  You  can '  t  teach  anybody  any- 
thing." Yes  you  can,  evenif  j'ou 
have  just  graduated  from  your 
apprenticeship,  jou  can  march  up 
to  the  biggest  professional  in  the 
hall,  give  him  a  man's  grij)  and  a 
man's  look  straight  in  the  face. 


and  teach  him  a  lesson  of  good 
fellowship  that  will  quicken  the 
pulse  of  anj^  man  a  hundred  dol- 
lars worth. 

And  the  Nineteen-nine  Con- 
vention is  going  to  be  a  gi-eat 
one  —  this  is  not  a  prophecy,  but 
a  statement  fully  warranted,  bj^ 
plans  already  outlined,  and  being 
carried  to  fulfilhnent  by  men  who 
know  how. 

The  officers  of  the  Association 
are  men  of  many  years  experi- 
ence in  convention  affairs,  and 
are  going  to  give  you  a  conven- 
tion that  will  be  a  record  breaker. 

Then  sto])  a  moment,  and  con- 
sider in  what  city  the  convention 
is  to  be  held — in  Rochester,  the 
photographic  center  of  the  world. 

Supposing  the  photograj^hic 
manufacturers  didn't  intend  to  do 
anything  special  for  you,  and  that 
would  be  a  pretty  bad  guess, 
wouldn't  it  be  worth  any  man's 
while  just  to  visit  the  factories, 
and  to  leam  how,  and  under 
what  conditions  the  products  so 
closely  identified  with  yoiu'  suc- 
cess are  made? 

Every  moment  of  the  conven- 
tion is  going  to  be  of  surpassing 
interest,  fi-om  both  the  technical, 
business  and  social  standpoint. 
You  are  going  to  see  more  of  the 
profession  than  was  ever  before 
gathered  together  at  one  time, 
and  you  will  be  offered  instruc- 
tion and  i)leasure  worth  many 
times  the  money  and  time  you 
expend  in  attending. 


the  ARTS  TO   EAGLE 


A  PORTFOLIO  OF  THE 
KODAK  ADVERTIS- 
ING COMPETITlOxN 

The  general  average  of  the 
pictures  made  by  professional 
photographers  for  our  I9O8  Kodak 
advertising  contest  was  much  bet- 
ter than  the  average  in  the  con- 
test for  the  previous  jear.  This 
■was  not  only  gratifying  to  us,  but 
was  a  good  thing  for  a  number  of 
the  contestants,  because  it  gave' 
us  an  opportunity  to  liuy  a  larger 
number  of  pictures  that  did  not 
land  m  the  prize  list. 

To  help  make  the  average  still 
better  in  the  present  ( 1909)  com- 
petition, we  have  i)ublished  a 
portfolio  of  the  I9O8  competition, 
reproducing  a  numljer  of  the  pict- 
ures that  we  consider  best  from 
an  advertising  standjioint.  These 
portfoUos  have  already  been  sent 
to  the  entire  list  of  I9O8  con- 
testants, and  we  have  a  limited 
quantity  left,  which  we  would  be 
glad  to  send,  while  they  last,  to 
such  photographers  as  are  suffici- 
ently interested  to  send  us  a  pos- 
tal, asking  for  one.  A  copy  will 
prove  highly  valualile  to  anyone 
intending  to  enter  the  contest,  for 
it  will  show  precisely  the  class  of 
work  which  the  judges  (adver- 
tising men  and  photogi-aphers) 
consider  with  the  most  favor,  and 
Avill  show  in  addition  the  class  of 
work  which  we  ourselves  pick  out 
for  purchase  fi-om  among  the  non- 
winning  prints.  In  our  1909 
competition   we   oifer    $2000    in 


prizes,  of  which  $1400  goes  to 
l^rofessionals  and  $600  to  ama- 
teurs. The  contest  closes  October 
1st.,  and  is  worth  while  fi'om  two 
standpoints:  In  the  first  place, 
there  is  the  prize  money  and  the 
further  possibility  of  the  sale  of 
l)ictures  to  us.  In  the  next  place, 
there  are  great  possibilities  for 
advertising  Avork  in  photography 
for  every  photographer  avIio  a\  ill 
combine  advertising  ideas  Avith 
good  clean  photography.  At  any 
rate,  send  for  a  copy  of  the  Port- 
folio, and  see  Avhat  is  doing. 


T 


HE  ILLUSTRATIONS 


Our  principal  illustrations 
in  this  issue  are  reproductions 
from  Collodio-Carl^on  prints  by 
Kandeler  Bros.,  of  St.  Louis, 
Mo. 

The  Kandeler  Studio  enjoys  a 
A  ery  high-class  patronage  and  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading 
studios  of  the  country.  The  qual- 
ity of  the  Avork  speaks  for 
itself. 

We  are  indebted  to  Messrs. 
Bauer  and  Coffee,  Kansas  City, 
Mo.,  for  the  chaniiing  subject 
upon  our  fi'ont  co\er,  and  to 
Pach  Bros,,  of  NeAv  York  City, 
for  the  splendid  portrait  of  Presi- 
dent William  H.  Taft,  Avhich  Ave 
use  as  a  frontispiece. 

We  trust  in  later  issues  to  shoAv 
further  examples  from  these 
studios. 


STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


A 


BOUQUET  AND  A 
GROWL 

Dear  Eagle :  So  you  are  going 
to  have  a  new  name  and  a  new 
cover  and  are  going  to  spread 
yourself.    Good  for  you. 

You  have  done  a  lot  toward 
helping  the  fi'atemity  to  make 
good.  You  have  stood  for  quality, 
quality,  quality.  And  that  has 
helped  all  of  us.  Most  of  us  have 
adopted  also  as  our  motto,  "We 
believe  permanency  is  the  Key- 
stone of  Photograj^hic  Success." 
You  have  helped  us  in  upholding 
the  courage  of  our  convictions 
when  tempted  to  price  cutting; 
you  have  helped  us  to  improved 
quality  and  therefore  to  better 
prices ;  you  have  helped  us,  espe- 
cially in  the  early  days  Avhen  we 
were  not  on  so  familiar  a  footing 
with  good  old  Aristo,  by  your 
timely  suggestions  from  the  tech- 
nical side.  When  we  have  fallen 
doATO  j'ou  have  helped  us  to  our 
feet. 

Latterly,  I  am  glad  to  note 
that  you  have  been  widening  the 
field  —  have  been  telling  us  about 
plates  and  bromide  pajjers  and 
hoAV  to  Avork  them,  and  about 
plate  development  and  the  new 
tank  methods.  You  have  been 
getting  too  bi'oad  gauge  for  j'our 
old  title,  and  I'm  glad  of  it.  We 
don't  need  the  technical  helps 
about  Aristo  so  much  now,  and 
you  might  better  take  up  the 
space  by  talking  aliout  other  mat- 
ters which,  though  not  the  back- 


bone of  our  business,  we  are  more 
in  need  of  because  not  so  familiar 
with.  I  shall  miss  the  old  green 
and  gold  cover,  l)ut  I  am  sure 
that  I  shall  soon  learn  to  welcome 
the  new  one  whatever  it  maj"  be. 
But,  Mr.  Editor.  I'm  sore.  I 
think  you  are  suffering  from  a 
chronic  attack  of  blue-i)encil-itis. 
The  nice  things  I  have  said  about 
3'ou  above  you  Mill  publish  of 
course.  But  I  don't  like  the  way 
you  impale  me  on  that  infernal 
blue  pencil  every  time  I  dip  mj' 
pen  in  red  ink  and  try  to  say 
things.  You're  too  calm.  Why 
don't  you  flare  up  at  the  inces- 
sant stream  of  nast}'  nothings  that 
are  thrown  at  you  l\v  "inspired" 
jealous  journalists  who  fire  at  you 
at  so  much  per  "inspire"?  I  got 
a  copy  of  the  January  Eagle  the 
other  day,  and  sticking  right  out 
in  ]ilain  sight  in  that  preferred 
position,  first  right  hand  page  fol- 
lowing and  facing  pure  reading 
matter,  was  the  Conmiercial  Ar- 
isto Platino  price  list.  Every  pho- 
tographer in  the  land  could  see 
it.  The  same  mail  brought  me  a 
copy  of  the  Itinerant-Anti-Organ, 
containing  an  attack  on  your  com- 
pany regarding  Commercial  Aristo 
Platino  at-Sl.()0  per  gross  which 
Avound  up  Avith  this  statement : 
"The  letter  in  question,  Avhile 
sent  out  pretty  broadly,  appears 
to  have  have  been  sent  only  to 
those  studios  Avhich  are  knoAvn  to 
have  acquired  the  developing 
paper  habit." 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


Same  old  trick — same  old  mis- 
representation —  same  old  hiding 
behind  "appeai-s  to  be"  and  "it 
is  alleged." 

Here's  some  more  from  the 
same  paper,  same  article,  same 
page :  'As  everybody  knows,  the 
standard  price  of  cabinets,  for 
some  years  past,  has  been  ^2.00 
per  gross,  less  a  small  cash  dis- 
count. The  price  was  originally 
lower,  but  was  boosted  when  the 
company  thought  it  had  control 
of  the  paper  situation  and  when 
raw  stock  went  up  in  value." 

THE  FACT  IS  THAT  THE 
PRICE  OF  ARISTO  PLATINO 
CABINETS  HAS  NEVER 
BEEN  LESS  THAN  $2.00  PER 
GROSS.*  Somebody  has,  — well, 
I  suppose  if  I  said  what,  I  think 
you  Avould  use  jour  old  blue  pen- 
cil, so  here  goes  for  a  milder 
statement  —  Somebody  has, 
either  through  dense  and  inexcus- 
able ignoi'ance  or  else  wilfully, 
that  is  to  say,  intentionallj-  and 
with  malice  aforethought,  so  far 
deviated  from  the  truth  as  to 
have  uttered  a  falsehood. 

And  say,  pencil  this  or  not,  as 
you  please,  did  you  ever  notice 
how  the  d.  o.  p.  shouters,  when 
they  want  to  tell  how  nice  a  thing 
is,  have  to  comi)are,  even  in  print, 
with  your  products?  Going  into 
editorial  ecstacy  over  prints  on 
somebody's  D.  O.  paper,  the  Itin- 
erant-Anti-Organ man  says  that 
some  of  them  have  'the  delicate 
olive  tone  of  the  collodion  print" 

*  In  tlie  United  States. — Editor. 


and  others  "have  all  the  richness 
of  color  of  that  "Will-'o-the- 
Wisp.  Angelo. "  The  printer' s  boy 
says  that  they  call  Angelo  a  "  Will- 
'o-the-Wisp"  because  they  "can't 
touch  it." 

Hoping  that  you  have  left  your 
blue  pencil  in  your  other  vest,  I 
am,  Yours  truly. 

Stereoscope. 


A 


POST     GRADUATE 
COURSE 

It  is  the  ambition  of  every 
physician  or  surgeon,  after  he 
has  once  established  a  paying 
practice,  to  take  a  post  graduate 
course  and  perfect  himself  in  the 
finer  and  higher  practices  of  his 
profession. 

A  post  graduate  course  is,  for 
him,  an  expensive  proposition, 
arid  he  must  leave  his  practice 
and  spend  at  least  a  year  in 
time,  and  a  good  deal  of  money, 
in  taking  this  course.  Yet  he 
knows  it  will  pay  big  returns  on 
his  investment,  and  he  will 
make  many  sacrifices  to  do  it. 

The  expert,  the  man  with  a 
full  Avorking  knowledge  of  all 
the  latest  improvements,  all  the 
new  methods,  certainly  stands  a 
much  greater  chance  of  success 
than  the  man  depending  solely 
upon  the  school  of  his  own  ex- 
perience for  his  knowledge  and 
ideas. 

The  man  without  the  post 
graduate  course  has  only  himself 


STUDIO  LIGHT  and 


for  a  teacher.  The  post  gradu- 
ate man  has  not  only  the  benefit 
of  his  own  experience,  but  the 
benefit  of  the  experience  of  all 
the  brightest  minds  in  his  pro- 
fession as  Avell. 

If  the  ambitious  physician  can 
afford  to  sacrifice  a  year  or  more 
of  his  tmie,  and  the  entailed 
financial  cost,  surely  you  of  the 
photographic  profession  can  -well 
afford  the  shoi't  time  necessary 
to  take  a  post  gi-aduate  course 
in  jour  profession. 

The  Eastman  School  of  Pro- 
fessional Fhotographj'  is  the  col- 
lege of  expert  post  graduate 
information  for  the  professional. 
Every  moment  of  each  day  in 
the  three-daj*  course  is  devoted 
to  sound,  practical  demonstra- 
tions of  the  most  advanced  ideas, 
and  of  all  that  is  newest  and 
best  in  the  practice  of  profes- 
sional photography. 

The  Eastman  School  is  not  a 
school  for  the  novice.  Its  corps 
of  instructors  fully  realize  that 
each  student  has  more  than 
mastered  the  rudiments  of  the 
the  profession,  and  that  to  make 
the  school  worth  Avhile,  each 
moment  must  be  devoted  to  in- 
struction along  the  most  ad- 
vanced lines  and  must  afford 
ideas  that  the  ah'eady  successful 
professional  can  turn  into  good, 
profitable  dollars  upon  his  return 
to  his  own  studio.  Let  us  con- 
sider for  a  moment  the  school 
program,  as  outlined  for  I909: 


FIRST  DAY 

10-12  A.  M. — Lighting  and  Posing 
with  Aristo  Lamp. 

1-2  p.  M.— Tank  Development. 

2-3  p.  M.— Nepera  Demonstration. 

3-4  p.  M. — Carbon  Sepia  Demonstra- 
tion. 

4--5  p.  M. — Ozobrome  Demonstra- 
tion. 

SECOND   DAY 

10-11  A.  M. — Tank  Development 
Explained. 

11-12  A.  M. — Demonstration  Poly- 
chrome Plates. 

1-2  p.  M. — Tank  and  Tray  Develop- 
ment. 

2-3  p.  M. — Aristo  Demonstration. 
All  Collodion  Papers. 

3-4  p.  M. — Angelo  Platinum  Demon- 
stration. 

4-5  p.  M. — Nepera  Demonstration. 

8  V.  M. — Nepera  and  Bromide  En- 
larging Demonstration. 

THIRD  DAY 

10-10::]0  A.  M.— Aristo  Printing  Cab- 
inet and  proofing  negatives  made 
at  the  school. 

10:30-11:30  A.  M.— Talk  on  Retouch- 
ing. 

11:30-12  M. — Nepera  Demonstra- 
tions with  school  negatives. 

1-2  p.  M. — Sepia  tones  on  Nepera 
by  Re-development. 

2-3  p.  31. — Ozobrome  Demonstra- 
tion. 

3-4  p.  M. — Printing  Room  Dodges. 
Devices  and  Ideas.  Illustrated 
talks. 

The  first  two  hours  of  the 
opening  session  are  devoted  to 
Lighting  and  Posing  with  the 
Aristo  Lamp.  There  are  several 
thousand  Aristo  Lamps  in  use — 
you  maj^  be  using  one  success- 
fully, and  feel  that  you  need  no 
instruction  on  this  subject.  Again, 
you  maj'  not  be  using  one,  and 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


feel  quite  certain  that  you  never 
"vvill.  In  either  event  j'ou  have 
here  the  opportunity  to  learn  all 
about  it,  from  men  Avho  have  not 
only  successfully  used  the  lamp 
according  to  their  own  ideas,  but 
in  addition  have  had  the  advan- 
tage of  seeing  hoAV  other  profes- 
sionals all  over  the  country  have 
used  it.  In  other  words  you  have 
the  combined  experience  of 
every  professional  using  the 
lamp,  at  your  service.  Out  of  the 
three-day  session,  three  and  one- 
half  hours  are  devoted  to  the  var- 
ious uses  of  the  lamp,  including 
lighting  and  posing,  with  test  sit- 
tings, and  the  making  of  prints. 

Then  there  is  Tank  Develop- 
ment, a  topic  of  absorbing  inter- 
est to  every  one  of  you.  True 
enough,  the  tank  is  simpli«-it\' 
itself,  but  do  you  wish  to  know 
just  how  to  produce  a  certain 
quality  of  negati\  e  — just  how  to 
acquire  less  density,  greater  den- 
sitj^,  more  or  less  contrast — just 
how  to  do  the  many  little  things 
that  only  experience  can  teach.'' 
All  this  is  at  your  service,  and 
told  in  such  a  way  you  just  have 
to  remember  it. 

The  Nepera  Demonstrations 
alone  will  be  worth  e\ery  effort 
you  have  made  to  attend  the 
school.  Can  I  successfully  use  a 
developing  out  paper  for  portrait- 
ure ?  is  an  absorbing  question 
with  the  profession.  At  the  East- 
man School  you  will  find  this 
question  most  fully  and  satisfac- 
torily answered  —  not    alone    by 


lectures  but  by  practical  demon- 
stration as  well. 

The  quality  of  negatives  best 
suited  for  Nepera,  and  how  to 
produce  them,  all  the  finer  stunts 
m  ])rinting  and  mounting,  the 
production  of  rich  sepias  by  rede- 
velopment, evexy  possible  ques- 
tion answered  by  demonstration. 

Then  there  are  demonstrations 
on  Aristo  Carbon  Sepia,  Ozo- 
brome,  Angelo  Flatiiuun,  and  a 
special  demonstration  on  the  new 
Standard  Polychrome  plate  —  a 
plate  of  marvelous  possibilities 
under  the  light. 

Demonstrations  of  enlarging 
with  both  Bromide  and  Nepera 
papers,  the  proper  apparatus  to 
use,  and  all  about  producing  or- 
dinary and  extraordinary  results. 
A  talk  on  Retouching,  one  on 
Printing  Room  Dodges  and  De- 
vices and  Ideas. 

The  Eastman  School  of  Pro- 
fessional Photography  affords  the 
ideal  post  graduate  course  for  the 
professional  eager  to  be  classed 
among  the  leaders. 

Long  experience  in  the  school 
Avork  has  enabled  the  instruc- 
tors to  make  every  minute  count, 
so  that  in  three  one-day  sessions 
the  course  is  complete. 

You  cannot  afford  to  miss  the 
Eastman  School.  It  takes  but 
three  days  of  your  time,  and  will 
be  Avorth  a  hundred  fold  the  time 
and  money  you  have  expended 
to  attend.  Look  over  the  school 
datings  on  page  24,  and  plan 
now  to  attend. 


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SINCE  THE  BOSS  CAME 
BACK 

BY    THE    OFFICE    BOY 

I  don'  know  -wht-thi-r  I  am 
going  to  get  a  raise  of  pay  or  get 
fired.  Ever  since  the  Boss  got 
back  from  that  Eastman  School 
iy^V,  gone  a  week)  he's  been 
flyin'  around  the  place  from 
mornin'  till  night  stirrm'  up 
things.  Mos'ly  when  he  gets 
hack  from  a  trip  he  sits  around 
for  a  day  or  so  talkin'  with  the 
head  prmter  about  the  shows 
he's  seen  .and  how  he  aint  so 
young  as  he  onct  was.  Nix  on 
the  sit  down  this  time  though. 
First  thing  when  he  gets  back 
he  grabs  me  and  says,  "jimmie, 
clean  out  that  store  room"  — 
then  he  has  a  man  in  to  put  up  a 
couple  of  new  shelves,  an'  then 
the  stuff  begins  to  come  in 
from  the  the  stock  house.  My 
back  Avas  mos'  broke  from  usin' 
the  nail  puller.— Two  new  five 
seven  plate  tanks  and  one  ole 
socker,  a  eight  by  ten.  Three 
cases  of  Pollychrome  plates.  I 
ast  the  Boss  Avas  they  somethin' 
for  the  parrot  that  hangs  in  the 
reception  room  to  eat  oif  (that's 
when  I  thought  I  Avas  goin'  to 
get  fired).  I  Avent  an'  had  an- 
other look  at  the  cases  and  saAv 
it  wa3  "Poly"  stead  of  "Polly," 
and  they  AAas  only  dry  plates 
after  all. 

The  Boss  Avas  aAvful  interested 
in  them  plates,  though.  You 
knoAV  that  Avhen  folks   used    to 


come  in  to  see  about  having  some 
pictures  took,  he  used  to  tell  'em 
Avhat  to  Avear,  an'  Avhat  colors 
Avouldn't  shoAv  up  —  an'  he  used 
to  groan  every  time  he  seen  a  red 
headed  Avoman  come  in.  Secon' 
day  he  Avas  home  he  has  his  old- 
est girl,  Sadie  (she's  a  peach, 
too)  and  one  of  her  chums  come 
doAvn,  Avith  a  Avhole  suit  case  full 
of  clothes  —  all  sorts  of  colors, 
an'  he  spends  most  all  day  niak- 
in'  negatives  on  them  new  Poly- 
chromes. Gee !  he  couldn't  hard- 
ly Avait  to  get  'em  out  of  the 
tank — an'  maybe  you  think  they 
wasent  beauts.  The  Boss  says 
the  color  values  Avas  immense,  I 
don'  knoAv  Avhat  he  means,  but 
one  of  Sadie's  dresses  Avas  red 
and  black,  and  there  Avas  a  heap 
of  difference  betA\  een  the  reds 
and  the  blacks  in  the  "Poly  nega- 
ti\es.  Avhen  there  Avouldn't  have 
been  hardly  any  Avith  the  regular 
kind. 

The  retoucher  said  hcAvas  fraid 
of  losing  his  job  if  the  Boss  kept  on 
makin'  negatives  like  that.  The 
Boss  keeps  on  pullin'  out  books 
full  of  notes  he  made  at  the 
school,  and  keei)s  changin'  things 
around;  the  printer  an'  the  finish- 
in'  room  men  didn't  like  it  at 
first,  but  noAv  they  keep  goin'  to 
the  Boss  for  more  neAv  stunts. — 
Wait  till  you  see  some  of  the  ncAv 
double  printed  Aristos  Jimmie  is 
makin'. 

The  Boss  says  he  never  had 
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listenin'  before  in  his  life,  and 
that  he  never  knew  before  how 
much  he  dident  know  —  an  he 
says  nex'  year  he's  goin'  to  take 
all  ns  fellers. 

\^'hen  I  get  through  with  that 
an'  the  convention  I'll  be  wise 
all  right. 


AW  A  Y    T  O     MAKE 
SOME    MONEY    AT 
NO   INCREASE   OF    COST 

The  better  grades  of  4x6  paper 
are  not  costing  jou  any  m(jre  to- 
day than  the  regular  cal^inet.  Of 
course,  if  you  use  regular  cabinet 
pictures,  you  can  trim  your  4x6 
paper,  but  you  know  a  4x6  print 
looks  mighty  nice  —  looks  much 
larger  than  a  cabinet,  and  larger 
than  it  really  is. 

Taprell,  Loomis  &  Company 
have  placed  a  new  line  of  mounts 
on  the  market  specially  for  4x6 
and  fractions  of  4x6  prints.  You 
would  be  surprised  how  large 
they  look  compared  with  a  cabi- 
net, and  yet  they  cost  you  no 
more  than  your  regular  cabinet 
print.  It  Aviil  give  a  wonderful 
opportunitj'  to  the  photograj)her 
to  get  a  better  price  all  along 
the  line.  They  are  made  in  white 
on  a  good  grade  of  stock, 
matched  edges  and  with  a  beau- 
tiful engraved  shaded  design 
under  the  name  of  Fontenoy,  and 
in  bro\ATi  with  red-brown  border 
under  the  name  of  Esmont. 


Don't  forget  that  this  is  one  of 
the  schemes  you  can  work,  and 
even  if  you  sell  it  at  the  saine 
price  as  you  are  asking  to-day  for 
your  cabinets,  you  will  be  pleasing 
your  customers  more  for  the  sim- 
ple reason  that  you  are  giving 
them  a  larger  picture  for  the 
same  monej' ;  and  as  a  matter  of 
fact,  you  can  easily  put  it  in  a 
grade  by  itself,  and  it  is  a  safe 
bet  to  say  that  one-third  of  the 
people  would  gladly  pay  an  in- 
crease of  price  when  they  see 
the  picture. 

Don't  fail  to  insist  on  the  rep- 
resentati\'e  showing  you  samples 
of  the  Esmont  and  Fontenoy  in 
in  both  colors  and  sizes. 


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ISAPPOINTED 


The  Eastman  salesmen 
and  demonstrators  have  all  sorts 
of  experiences  in  demonstrating 
and  selling  ncAv  products. 

Sometimes  they  find  the  custo- 
mer full}'  informed  and  eager  to 
place  an  order,  and  again  find 
him  highly  sceptical  and  hard  to 
convince. 

We  api^end  herewith  a  letter 
from  a  highly  disappointed  plate 
tank  purchaser: 

Ada,  Okla.,  Dec.  8,  1908. 
EIastmax  Kodak  Co., 
Dear  Sirs: 

Some  time  ago  one  of  your  tank 
demonstrators  called  upon  me  and 
showed  me  how  to  use  the  Plate 
Tank,  and  its  advantages  in  saving 
time,  etc.     Well,  I   thought  I  was 


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getting  about  as  good  results  as  I 
cared  for,  but  he  informed  me  that 
all  first-class  photographers  were  us- 
ing the  tanks,  so  then  I  decided  if  I 
wanted  to  be  first  class  I  must  get 
one  of  the  tanks.  But  I  just  thought 
to  myself,  I  won't  use  the  darn  thing, 
so  I  ordered  one,  and  had  to  re-order 
twice  before  my  order  was  filled  (  so 
I  knewso/He  one  was  wanting  tanks). 

At  last  the  thing  came.  I  looked 
it  over  and  wondered  if  it  was  worth 
the  money. 

Then  I  decided  to  use  it,  and  as  I 
am  no  person  to  experiment  with 
little  things,  I  just  chucked  it  full 
of  plates. 

But  instead  of  sitting  down  and 
reading  the  morning  paper  while  the 
tank  did  the  work,  like  the  tank 
man  told  me,  1  was  walking  the 
floor  counting  up  how  many  S  S 
1  was  losing  with  that  blamed  tank. 

I  finally  figured  out  that  I  had 
seventy-two  dollars  worth  of  work 
in  the  tank. 

Well,  it  just  seemed  like  that  thirty 
minutes  would  never  end ;  really  it 
was  worse  than  waiting  for  a  late 
train  to  send  your  mother-in-law  off 
on,  but  finally  the  time  came  for  me 
to  see  what  this  wonderful  machine 
had  done. 

I  went  in  the  dark  room  and  tum- 
bled the  lid  off,  as  I  thought  to  my- 
self, "  I  expect  I  had  better  have 
thrown  this  thing  out  in  the  alley 
before  I  used  it,  as  I  will  have  to  do 
it  anyway." 

I  slipped  one  of  the  plates  out  and 
held  it  up  to  the  light,  and  to  my 
overwhelming  delight;  a  good  nega- 
tive, so  I  just  slipped  the  dozen  into 
the  fixing  bath,  and  went  back  in 
fifteen  minutes,  and  what  do  you 
think  I  saw  ?  Oh,  Pshaw !  You 
know;  twelve  ideal  negatives,  yes, 
sir,  as  good  as  I  ever  saw,  and  of  all 
the  good  things  you  have  ever  put 
out,  not  one  excels  the  plate  tank. 

I  shall  never  be  without  one  in  my 
studio.  N.  B.  Stall. 


QTUDIO   ADVERTISING 

*^-^  "Advertising  ^^iX[  make  any- 
thing good  a  success,"  states  the 
editor  of  Geyer's  Stationer. 
"Year  after  year  lines  of  goods 
which  it  was  fomierly  beheved 
could  not  be  sold  through  adver- 
tising have  found  their  way  into 
advertising  columns,  and  have 
staid  there,  because  it  has  paid 
to  advertise  them." 

"To-day  it  is  not  too  much  to 
say  that  advertising,  properlj"  ad- 
ministered, is  by  far  the  greatest 
single  factor  in  the  promotion  of 
man}'  of  our  greatest  enterprises. 
The  principle  of  advertising  has 
been  tried,  and  it  is  true  beyond 
all  shadow  of  doubt.     It  pays." 

If  advertising  pays  the  manu- 
facturer of  pianos,  clothing  or 
food  products,  it  will  pay  the 
manufacturer  of  photographic 
portraits.  But  to  successfully  ad- 
vertise any  product  you  must 
keep  everlastingly  at  it. 

Studio  advertising  pays.  Let 
us  cite  an  instance  that  came 
under  our  personal  observation 
some  years  ago : 

In  a  certain  city,  then  of  about 
one  hundred  thousand  inhabi- 
tants, one  photograi)her  had  had 
for  a  number  of  years  the  repu- 
tation of  "the  leading  photog- 
rapher," and  everj'body  who 
wanted  pictures  that  were  "the 
thing"  went  to  him.  He  had  pros- 
pered accordingly  and  moved  into 
a  fine  new  studio,  with  everything 
new,  elevator  opening  right  into 


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the  reception  room,  and  all  that. 
On  another  street,  a  block  away, 
there  Avas  another  studio,  which 
had  been  just  barely  running 
along,  doing  "dollar  a  dozen" 
work,  and  never  for  a  moment 
considered  as  a  dangerous  com- 
petitor by  anj'  studio  in  the  city. 
This  studio  quietly  changed 
hands,  no  one  knew  or  cared  any- 
thing about  it,  except  perhaps 
the  stock  house  men.  The  new^ 
proprietor  quickl}^  proceeded  to 
to  refurnish  it,  in  keeping  with 
his  ideas.  Next  a  big  sign  ap- 
peared, " ,the  Photographer. " 

and  a  show  case  filled  with  pic- 
tures that  were  corkers.  All  the 
Sunday  papers  contained  a  doulile 
column  ad  of  the  new  studio  — 

" ,  the    Photographer,"  being 

prominentlj"  displayed. 

Now  this  man  did  not  make 
one  splurge  in  the  Sunday  papers 
and  then  quit.  Day  in  and  day 
out,  every  paper  m  toAvn  carried 
his  copy .  and  his  show  case  backed 
up  his  news})aper  copj*. 

"Doing  things  well,  but  doing 
them  differently  fi-om  the  other 
fellow, "  appeared  to  be  his  motto, 
and  it  Avas  not  long  before  he  was 
the  leading  "photographer"  even 
if  the  people  had  to  climb  up  the 
stairs  to  his  studio,  when  they 
could  ride  up  to  the  studio  of  the 
man  he  had  deposed. 

He  made  first-class  work,  and 
let  the  people  know  about  it^ 
he  kept  himself  in  their  minds  all 
the    time  —  and    he    got    more 


money  per  dozen  than  the  other 
fellow  ever  dreamed  of. 

]Making  it  pay  is  a  simple 
proposition. 

Make  good  ivork —  charge  good 
prices,  and  keep  your  Avork  and 
yourself  constantly  before  the 
public. 


QCIENTIFIC  PLUGGING 

^^^  The  only  sure  Avay  to  deter- 
mine the  ripeness  of  a  melon  is 
to  plug  it.  Of  course,  if  the 
melon  is  not  ripe  plugging  doesn't 
improve  its  chances  of  arriving 
at  a  luscious  maturity,  but  it  does 
save  disappointment  for  the 
guests  at  the  feast. 

The  surest  Avay  to  determine 
the  purity  of  the  chemicals  you 
are  using  is  to  try  them :  if  they 
afford  perfectly  satisfactory  re- 
sults your  plugging  hasn't 
hai-med  anything,  but  if,  on  the 
other  hand,  your  practical  test 
demonstrates  their  unAvorthiness, 
j'our  plugging  has  been  a  some- 
Avhat  expensive  operation. 

If  you  are  an  expert  chemist 
you  may  plug  your  chemical 
melon  without  doing  any  damage, 
but  this  entails  a  knowledge  and 
apparatus  usually  beyond  the  av- 
erage professional.  Lp  against  it 
then?  Not  a  bit  of  it.  You  may 
have  j'our  chemicals  "plugged" 
for  you  in  the  most  scientific 
manner  and  at  a  trifling  cost. 
Even  if  you  possessed  the  re- 
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all  the  apparatus  necessary,  test- 
ing your  chemicals  scientifically 
would  prove  a  very  expensive 
proposition  owing  to  the  compar- 
atively small  quantity  you,  indi- 
vidually, use.  Some  philanthropic 
scheme?  No  sir,  just  plain 
business. 

Supposing  you  were  a  lamp 
manufacturer,  and  made  corking 
good  lamps,  and  the  oil  to  be 
used  in  them  wouldn't  burn,  j'ou 
would  get  very  busy  trjing  to 
improve  the  grade  of  oil  or  else 
go  out  of  the  lamp  business. 
That's  the  answer:  The  manu- 
facturer of  the  sensitized  pro- 
ducts with  which  the  chemicals 
are  to  be  used  must  for  his  own 
salvation  test  your  chemicals  for 
you  and  see  that  you  are  provided 
with  only  those  of  tested  and 
known   purity   and   strength. 


This  device  on 
the  package  is 
your  guarantee. 


FROM  A  BUSINESS 
STANDPOINT 

When  Mr.  Aristo  Demonstra- 
tor comes  into  your  studio,  he 
comes  on  business,  and  in  every 
instance  you  can  well  afford  to 
spend  a  little  time  with  him ;  he 
won't  waste  your  time  —  hasn't 
got  any  of  his  own  to  waste,  and 


in  many  instances  is  in  a  position 
to  do  you  a  real  service. 

You  already  use  Aristo,  are 
perfectly  satisfied  with  it,  and  are 
busy  and  don't  want  to  see  him? 
Now  let's  think  a  moment  —  you 
would  welcome  a  customer  that 
would  bring  money  into  your 
studio;  sure  you  would.  Well, 
there  are  other  Avays  of  making 
money  besides  earning  it,  waj's  to 
save  money  count  just  as  well. 
Now,  while  Mr.  Demonstrator 
won't  order  a  dozen  cabinets,  he 
may  have  some  suggestions  to 
offer  that  will  save  you  the  price 
of  several  dozen.  Hadn't  thought 
of  it  that  way  before?  Well, 
that's  just  it,  a  busj^  man  hasn't 
always  time  to  stoj)  and  consider 
all  sides  of  a  question,  hence  this 
httle  suggestion. 

Mr.  Demonstrator  is  constantly 
on  the  move  fi'om  one  end  of  his 
territoiy  to  the  other;  he  sees 
new  faces,  receives  new  ideas, 
new  problems  confront  him.  Per- 
haps in  just  the  last  town  he  vis- 
ited, he  learned  a  new  stunt  that 
you  could  use  to  excellent  advan- 
tage; one  customer  was  having 
difficulty  in  producing  good  neg- 
atives, that  he,  from  his  experi- 
ence, Avas  able  to  remove.  Will 
he  tell  you  of  these  things,  and 
do  all  he  can  to  solve  your  prob- 
lems for  you?  Just  meet  him  half 
Avay  and  see  if  he  don't.  If  you 
are  not  using  Aristo,  will  he  try 
and  induce  you  to?  Certainly, 
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pay  roll,  you  know,  and  he'll  offer 
some  convincing  reasons,  too.  No, 
he  wont  go  away  mad  if  you  turn 
him  dowm,  but  he'll  be  back  to 
see  you  every  time  he  comes  to 
town,  and  sooner  or  later  he  will 
land  you,  for  he  has  good  old 
Aristo  to  back  him. 


I 


T  IS 


I  wonder  that  it  didn't  come 
long  ago.  And  yet,  I  think  there 
may  be  good  and  valid  reasons 
for  the  dela}-. 

For  a  long  time  there  have  been 
signs  that  Sepia  was  the  coming 
tone.  To-day  Sepia  is  neither  a 
"will  be,"  nor  a  "has  been."  It's 
an  "izzer."  And  its  strength 
began  at  the  right  place — at  the 
top.  For  the  past  three  or  four 
years,  nearly  every  one  of  the 
great  convention  successes  have 
been  Sepia  prints.  A  fad  with 
the  judges?  Not  a  bit  of  it.  The 
true  reason  for  the  Sepia  succes- 
ses at  the  conventions  lies  deeper. 
Sepias  have  led,  because  the  men 
who  had  the  art  to  make  the  liest 
negatives  also  had  the  art  to 
select  for  their  prints  a  tone  that 
would  give  the  most  pleasing 
rendition  of  the  values  in  those 
negatives. 

The  Sepia  has  come  into  its 
own.  It  has  passed  the  conven- 
tion stage.  It  is  in  the  show 
cases.  It  isbeingdehvered.  Pho- 
tographers all  over  the  country 
are  taking  it  up  and  are  making 


with  it  marked  success.  Mind 
you,  I  am  talking  about  Sepias, 
not  near  Sepias — not  the  lemons — 
that  is  to  say.  not  the  lemon 
colored  prints  that  are  being 
handed  out  in  some  quarters.  The 
demand  for  Sepias  is  here.  Wit- 
ness not  only  the  show  cases  and 
the  work  that  is  being  delivered, 
but  the  attemi)ts  t)f  those  who 
started  along  other  lines  to  now 
make  their  pa])ers  till  the  Sepia 
bill  by  providing  new  Sei)ia  ton- 
ing methods  "while  you  wait." 

I  believe  in  the  real  thing. 
When  I  want  a  warm  black,  just 
a  tinge  of  olive  in  it,  I  want 
Aristo  paper  to  make  it  on.  I 
don't  like  these  jn-esto  change 
papers:  "You  see  me  now?  Most 
as  good  as  Aristo,  am  I  not? 
Plunge — here  I  go  into  one  bath, 
now  I  dip  into  another.  I  just 
hop  into  another  tray,  and  out 
I  come ;  I  am  washed,  dried,  then 
bleached  and  bathed  again. 
Don't  j'ou  think  I  look  like  Car- 
bon Sepia?  Most  as  good,  anj'- 
way?   And  so  easy." 

No ;  you  don '  t  appeal  to  me  — 
no,  not  even  with  the  "last  for- 
mula "  You  are  most  as  good  as 
everything,  which  means  —  well, 
to  be  polite  about  it,  it  means 
that  I  can't  use  you.  I  don't 
want  any  near  everything  paper. 
1  want  the  paper  that's  IT. 

I've  seen,  I  think,  everything 
neAv  and  old  in  developing  papers 
up  to  date,  and  here's  one  truth 
I  have  set  down :  Every  develop- 


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ing  paper  that  givex  the  olive  bhick 
(near  AristoJ  is  a  Jidt  failure  as  a 
Sepia.  It' s  one  thino-  or  tht-  other, 
and  j'ou  can't  get  away  from  it. 
Take  Velvet  Nepera  —  it  comes 
closer  than  the  other  d.  o.  p.'s  to 
Aristo,  but  at  least  the  makers 
don't  try  to  hokey  pokey  it  into 
being  "near  Angelo." 

But  there  are  three  other  Nep- 
eras  that  do  give  Sejjia  tones  that 
are  right — Rough.  Matte  and 
Royal  —  and  they  gi\e  them  by 
straight  re-development.  Some 
of  the  work  I've  seen  latelj'  on 
Royal  Nepera  will  make  the  best 
of  them  look  to  their  laurels. 
Near  Platinum?  No,  sir!  It's 
Royal  Nepera:  it's  its  own  self. 
It  doesn't  have  to  be  like  any 
other  paper,  and  pretty  soon 
you'll  hear  some  demonstrator 
telling  you  that  he  has  a  new 
paper  that's  "as  good  as  Royal 
Nepera." 

Roj'al  Nepera  is  at  its  liest 
when  printed  from  fairly  snajjjiy 
negatives  having  dark  back- 
grounds. 'Twill  look  so  well  un- 
toned,  that  you  will  he  temi)ted 
to  leave  it  so :  but  go  ahead  and 
re-develop,  and  you  will  have  — 
well,  a  ROYAL  Nepera.  No,  the 
stock  isn't  yellow;  it's  mellow, 
giving  a  soft  India-tint  in  the 
high  lights,  that  hannonizes  ab- 
solutely with  the  rich  Sepias  of 
the  shadows. 

And  Royal  Nepera  is  a  comfort 
to  handle ;  lies  flat,  dries  between 
blotters,   is  practically  a  double 


weight  pa])er  (fine  for  folders), 
though  at  a  single  weight  price; 
doesn't  l)lister.  and  responds 
beautifully  in  lustre,  to  an  appli- 
cation of  Nejiera  Waxing  Solu- 
tion. But  there's  one  mistake  I 
must  warn  you  against  making 
with  Royal  Nepera.  It  costs  so 
little,  weight  considered;  works 
so  easily;  behaves  so  well,  that 
you  may  be  tempted  to  sell  too 
cheap.  Don't  do  it.  The  Sepia  is 
here.  It  is  fashionable.  For  the 
sake  of  yoin*  bank  account,  make 
tile  most  of  it. 

(rRAOUATE. 


Rochester 

July  19-24 

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NEW    SERIES 

Vol.  1     No.  2 


APRIL  1909 


OLD   SERl ES 
No.    99 


rpHEY  DO 

■^  No  business  man  ever  made 
a  bigger  mistake  than  he  Avho 
attempts  to  sell  an  inferior  arti- 
cle for  a  first-class  price  and  im- 
agines that  "his  customers  don't 
know  the  difference."  Now  just 
size  U])  this  question  from  outside 
your  own  business :  You  can  pur- 
chase a  Avatch  that  "looks"  gold 
for  five  dollars;  you  can  obtain  a 
derby  hat  for  a  dollar  or  a  "  Knox" 
for  five  dollars,  or  the  clothing 
man  Avill  sell  you  a  suit  of  clothes 
for  anyAvhere  from  ten  to  seventy- 
five  dollars.  WTien  they  are  neAv 
and  in  the  dealer's  hands,  they 
all  look  pretty  good,  and  pretty 
much  alike  —  j'et  the  cheaper 
ones  don't  fool  you  for  a  minute. 
The  maker  of  the  cheap  ])roduct, 
from  the  \'ery  fact  that  it  is 
cheap,  has  not  the  same  resi)ect 
for  his  Avares  as  the  maker  of  the 
first  grade  ones,  and  either  con- 
sciouslj'  or  imconsciously  shghts 
them  somewhere  in  their  make- 
up, and  it  doesn't  take  jou  very 
long  to  discoAcr  it  either.  If  you 
go  to  the  dealer  and  tell  him 
that  you  Avant  an  inexpensive 
suit  of  clothes,  jou   Avill   accept 


its  deficiencies,  provided  it  is 
good  value  for  the  monej',  but  if 
he  tries  to  sell  you  a  ten-dollar 
suit  for  tAventy,  you  forever  after 
regard  him  AAith  suspicion  —  and 
if  he  does  succeed  once  in  "doing" 
you,  it  AAon't  be  veiy  long  till 
jou  find  it  out,  and  thenceforth 
you  derive  good  satisfaction  in 
turning  all  the  trade  aAvay  from 
him  that  j^ou  can.  The  maker  of 
the  spurious,  may,  first  off,  en- 
deavor to  finish  his  product  so 
Avell  that  he  can  for  a  time  give 
it  a  quality  a])])earance,  but 
sooner  or  later  his  knoAvledge  of 
its  uuAA'orthiness  Avill  lead  him  to 
slight  it  someAvhere,  and  he  fools 
neither  his  customers  nor  himself, 
and  his  business  reputation  passes 
into  the  discard. 

With  a  true  "quality"  product 
to  Avork  Avith,  the  manufacturer 
instinctivelj'  puts  forth  his  best 
efforts,  he  cannot  preserve  his 
self  respect  and  slight  good  ma- 
terial, and  his  finished  Avares  con- 
tinue to  shoAV  greater  and  greater 
improAcment  and  Aalue,  and  if 
he  persevere,  the  products  AAith 
his  imprint  or  trade  mark  are 
recognized  as  "best,"  to  his  ever- 
lasting satisfaction. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


It  is  just  this  foundation  of 
quaUhi  that  has  kept  Aristo  in 
the  lead  for  twenty  years.  Per- 
haps not  ten  per  cent,  of  your 
customers  have  known  anything 
about  Aristo  or  Aristo  quality, 
but  you  have  known  it,  and  your 
very  respect  for  its  sterling  qu;d- 
ities  has  compelled  you  to  i)ut 
forth  your  best  efforts  in  every 
stage  of  picture  making  to  make 
your  finished  product  Avorth 
while. 

If  j"ou  do  not  have  faith  and 
confidence  in  everything  that 
enters  into  the  making  of  what 
you  have  to  sell,  sooner  or  later 
your  standard  of  value  is  lowered 
and  your  business  is  not  progress- 
ing, not  standing  still — but  going 
backward. 

Aristo  is  for  the  man  who  uill 
succeed. 


THE  JUDGES  WERE 
RIGHT 

After  the  1907  Kodak  Adver- 
tising Competition  was  over  and 
the  judges  had  decided  on  where 
the  money  had  to  go,  mc  had  a 
still  hunt.  We  had  another  one 
after  the  1908  competition. 
These  Avere  still  hunts  among  the 
rejected  prints  for  other  pictures 
that  Ave  could  use  for  ad\'ertising, 
pictures  that  the  judges  had 
tinned  doAvn  as  prize  possibilities. 
We  found  them.  Some  of  them 
Ave  have  used  and  shall  use  very 
extensively,  perhaps  in  some 


cases  more  than  we  shall  use  prize 
Avinners.  Yet  the  judges  Avere 
right.  They  Avere  looking  ^br  the 
best  pictures  as  submitted.  We 
Avere  looking  for  the  possibilities 
that  might  lurk  in  a  negative. 
One  of  the  best,  if  not  the  very 
best  picture  that  we  selected,  Avas 
given  but  slight  consideration  by 
the  judges.  The  prnit  Avas  bad — 
flat  to  muddiness.  They  had  no 
alternative  but  to  reject  it.  Later 
on  Ave  purchased  the  negative, 
coddled  and  jolhed  the  printing 
along  until  W'e  got  a  beautifid 
result.  In  another  case  there  Avas 
no  trimming  where  there  should 
have  been  a  lot.  The  judges  Avere 
right  in  turning  the  Avork  doAvn. 
If  the  man  Avho  made  the  nega- 
tive had  used  as  much  skill  in 
printing  and  trimming  as  he  did 
in  making  the  negative,  if  he  had 
Avorked  as  hard  in  trying  to  get 
something  out  of  that  negative 
as  Ave  did,  he  Avould  probably 
have  gotten  several  times  as 
much  money  for  it — Avould  have 
landed  a  prize. 

The  successful  competitors  are 
the  ones  Avho  combine  ideas 
— advertising  ideas — Avith  good 
teclniical  Avork.  It  must  be  Avork 
that  Avill  reproduce  Avell,  Avork 
that  is  snappy,  vigorous.  We  may 
personally  admire  and  delight  in 
a  soft  loAV  toned  print.  But  those 
Avho  have  had  experience  knoAv 
that  to  decently  reproduce  such 
a  print  on  super-calendered  paper 
from  electrotj'pes  that  were  made 
from  a  half-tone  cut  that  Avas  in 


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turn  made  from  that  print,  on 
presses  that  are  running  over 
2000  impressions  to  the  hour,  is 
an  impossibihty. 

Remember  that  the  judges 
have  this  in  mind  Avhen  at  their 
work,  and  that  they  will  judge 
your  negative  bj'  your  print.  Re- 
member, too,  that  there  are  five 
prizes  in  the  professional  class: 
$500,  $400,  $250,  $150  and 
$100. 

If  your  haven't  had  a  circular 
giving  the  terms  we  will  mail  one 
on  request — or  hkely  your  dealer 
can  supply  you. 


s 


OFT  PAPER  OR  SOFT 
NEGATIVES  .? 

In  taking  up  the  use  of  devel- 
oping papers  for  portraiture  the 
professional  has  been  seemingly 
somewhat  perplexed  as  to  just 
the  quality  of  negative  to  use  for 
best  results.  This  state  of  mind 
has  been  largely  brought  aliout 
by  some  manufacturers  of  devel- 
oping-out  papers  whose  products 
possessed  but  slight  range  in  gra- 
dation, necessitating  a  soft  and 
comparatively  flat  negative  to  pro- 
duce anything  like  passable  re- 
sults. Make  soft  negatives  — 
make  thin  negatives  —  make  flat 
negatives  —  make  this  and  make 
that  —  anything  to  dodge  the  real 
issue  —  that  their  product  could 
not  satisfactorily  fill  the  bill. 

What  the  busy  professional 
wants  and  must  have  is  a  paper 


that  will  print  all  the  values  of 
the  average  negative  of  good, 
full  strength  and  density — ^and, 
without  having  to  experiment 
with  a  dozen  or  more  grades  of 
paper  before  he  is  sure  he  has 
the  one  that  will  afford  him  the 
desired  result.  What  he  wants 
is  a  paper  that  -will  yield  a  first- 
class  print  from  a  negative  that 
will  yield  a  good  print  on  Aristo. 

Nepera  is  pitched  to  duplicate 
Aristo  in  gradation  —  therein  lies 
one  of  the  secrets  of  its  imme- 
diate and  great  success.  No  ex- 
perimenting under  the  light,  no 
experimenting  in  the  dark-room  — 
no  juggling  to  produce  a  guess- 
work negative. 

Make  good,  snappy,  brilliant 
negatives,  Nepera  has  the  soft- 
ness, gradation  and  latitude  to 
receive  and  retain  every  value. 

The  paper  should  be  too  soft 
rather  than  too  hard  —  a  paper 
too  hard  is  hopeless;  with  the 
softer  paper  both  color  and  con- 
trast are  easy  to  control.  For  in- 
stance: Velvet  Nepera  devel- 
oped in  nonnal  developer  will 
give  warm  tones,  but  a  decided 
ohve  can  be  obtained  by  adding 
common  salt  and  bromide  of  po- 
tassium in  equal  quantities  to  the 
normal  developer.  The  addition 
of  bromide  of  potassium  to  the 
developer  for  Nepera  not  only 
contrcjls  the  color  of  the  print, 
but  also  7-educes  contrast,  quite 
contrary  to  its  action  with  other 
developing  papers,  but  the  con- 
trast can  be  preseiied  or  increased 


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as  necessary  by  the  addition  of 
salt.  Make  your  negatives  as 
you  would  for  Aristo,  the  lati- 
tude and  gradation  of  Nepera 
will  give  j'ou  all  there  is  in  the 
negative. 


TUST  ABOUT  NINETY 

*^  You  have  just  about  ninety 
days  before  the  National  Con- 
vention— and  you  really  haven't 
got  that  many  in  which  to  make 
up  your  mind  to  attend  and 
plan  things  for  smooth  running 
while  you  are  aAvay. 

Plan  now  to  attend,  it's  going 
to  be  worth  w^hile,  it  isn't  every 
j-ear  that  can  give  you  a  vacation, 
pleasure,  profit  and  instruction 
all  in  one.  There  never  was  a 
National  Convention  but  Avhat 
was  worth  every  man's  while  to 
attend,  and  the  Convention  at 
Rochester  is  going  to  surpass 
them  all  in  interest  and  pleasure. 

You  must  Avant  to  see  the  fac- 
tories that  produce  the  goods  you 
use  every  day,  to  learn  how  they 
are  made,  packed  and  shii)ped, 
and  to  acquire  that  personal 
knowledge  that  will  be  sure  to 
make  your  handling  of  them  more 
pleasurable  and  successful.  Every 
facilitj'  for  visiting  and  inspecting 
these  factories  will  be  afforded 
you  during  the  convention,  and 
everything  will  be  done  to  make 
this  part  of  your  visit  both  pleas- 
ant and  protitalik". 

The  citizens  of  Rochester  are 


interested  in  you,  and  in  j'our 
coming,  more  than  in  any  other 
class  of  her  many  other  visitors, 
because  you  are  so  closelj"  allied 
Avith  her  greatest  industry — and 
they'll  let  you  knoAv  you  are 
AA'elcome.  The  convention  officials 
are  busy — too  busy  to  talk  much 
just  noAv,  but  they'll  have  things 
doing  in  the  convention. 

Rochester,  July  19,  20,  21, 
22,  23,  24.. 

COMPOSITION  IN  POR- 
TRAITURE 

Sidnej'  Allan  (Sadakichi  Hart- 
mann)  has  Avritten  a  good  book  on 
Composition  in  Portraiture.  Sid- 
ney Allan  Avrites  entertainingly 
and  to  the  point,  and,  not  in  com- 
mon Avith  most  Avriters  on  this 
subject,  has  soAvorded  his  descrip- 
tions, and  so  full}'  illustrated  them 
Avith  pictures  and  diagrams,  that 
his  meaning  is  made  absolutely 
clear. 

There  are  chapters  on  The 
Placing  of  the  Head,  The  Man- 
agement of  Hands,  Standing 
Positions,  Sitting  Positions, 
Backgi'ounds,  The  Arrangement 
of  Groups,  Fomis  and  Values  and 
Light  Eff"ects. 

The  book  is  Avritten  Avith 
special  reference  to  the  needs  of 
the  photographer  and  should 
prove  a  great  aid  in  the  produc- 
tion of  artistic  portraiture . 

The  book  is  published  by  Ed- 
Avard  L.  Wilson,  NeAvYork,  and 
the  price  is  three  dollars. 


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ENUINE  OIL 


I  was  -walking  down  Sixth 
avenue  a  few  months  ago,  and  in 
a  window  that  was  much  in  need 
of  soap  and  hot  water,  I  saw  this 
sign,  "Genuine  Oil  Paintings, 
$1.98."  Curiosity  led  me  Avithin, 
and  (excuse  the  paraphrase),  my 
exclamation  was, "Oh,  Art,  how 
many  crimes  have  been  com- 
mitted in  thy  name !  !  " 

Purple  cows  (or  perhaps  they 
were  sheep)  feeding  on  genuine 
blue  grass,  pink  streams  of  Avater 
and  figure  studies  that  looked 
like  they  had  been  copied  from  a 
khidergarten  slate — but  all  genu- 
ine oils  at  -^l-PS. 

Straightway  I  thought  I  would 
go  and  write  to  the  Eagle,  you 
were  the  Eagle  then,  and  lecture 
the  boys  about  its  being  their 
work  and  not  their  material  that 
counts.  These  pictures  were  pro- 
bably as  advertised,  "genuine  oil. " 
So  is  the  paint  on  your  house. 
But  it  isn't  the  paint,  it's  the 
man  who  spreads  it  that  counts. 
It  isn't  the  brush,  it's  the  man 
Avho  swings  it.  To  get  down  to 
photograph}'  —  no,  up  to  photog- 
raphy —  it  isn't  a  question  of 
platinum  or  silver,  it's  a  question 
of  the  man  who  Avorks  them. 

Well,  I  Avas  going  to  Avrite  you 
a  nice  long  letter  Avith  the  above 
as  an  introduction,  and  Avas  going 
to  tell  you  to  l)e  honest  (because 
it  pays)  and  to  be  honest  liecause 
of  the  satisfaction  to  yourself.  I 
Avas  going  to  tell  you  not  to  try 


to  fool  people  —  not  to  advertise 
silver  prints  as  platinum  prints, 
because  when  you  use  the  right 
silver  paper  and  work  it  right,  no 
fancy  names  are  necessary.  You 
don't  Avant  the  people  in  your 
tOAvn  to  talk  aljout  silver  prmts  or 
platinum  prints.  If  your  name 
happens  to  be  Smith,  you  Avant 
them  to  talk  about  "Smith's" 
prints.  Well,  to  tell  you  the 
truth,  I  either  Avas  too  busy  or 
too  lazy,  I  just  don't  remember 
Avhich,  so  I  didn't  Avrite  my  dis- 
sertation on  honesty,  and  noAv  I 
have  decided  not  to  Avrite  it  at  all. 
This  is  Avhy.  A  manufacturer 
has  gone  it  stronger  than  any 
})hotographer  ever  did.  Listen 
to  this  advertisement  —  it's  in 
most  of  the  March  photographic 
magazines.  "Real  Sepia  Plati- 
num Prints  are  made  only  on  Sil- 
ver Paper."  (For  the  Avord  silver 
substitute  the  name  of  a  silver 
developing  out  paper.)  Noav 
Avhat  do  you  think  of  that.^ 
Next  Ave  Avill  see:  Genuine  dia- 
monds are  noAV  made  only  of 
glass :  real  sealskin  coats  are  not 
sealskin  unless  made  of  cotton 
plush.  Here's  a  suggestion  for  a 
heading  for  an  advertisement : 

BEWARE  OF  THE  GENUINE 


ALL  of  Our  Goods  Are  Guaranteed 
to  he  I  MIT  A  TIONS 


IF  SOMEBODY  ELSE  MAKES 
IT  WE  WILL  TRY  TO. 


STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


No.  I'm  discouraged.  I  can't 
A\Tite  that  letter  to  the  fraternity 
about  calhng  things  by  their  right 
names,  yet  I  do  notice  this.  The 
men  in  photography  who  have 
made  the  big  and  lasting  suc- 
cesses are  the  ones  who  do  call 
things  by  their  right  names — and, 
so  also, with  men  in  other  lines  of 
business. 

Genuine  oil  paintings  have  sold 
for  $1.98.  Charcoal  sketches, 
lead  pencil  drawings,  pen  and  ink 
drawings  have  sold  for  thousands 
of  dollars.  It's  neither  the  oil, 
nor  the  lead,  nor  the  silver,  nor 
the  platinum,  it's  the  MAN.  Let 
the  man  do  good  work,  and  then 
let  it  be  known  as  his  work. 
There's  where  the  honor  and  the 
profit  he. 

Stereoscope. 


r^  ONTRADICTORY 

^"^  This  magazine  reserves 
the  right  and  privilege  of  contra- 
dictmg  itself.  The  stuft",  good  or 
bad,  is  not  all  written  by  the 
same  man.  The  company  that 
publishes  this  little  book  has  in 
its  employ  a  lot  of  expei'ienced 
men,  who  don't  always  agree. 
One,  for  instance,  swears  by  D. 
O.  P.,  and  another  at  it.  If  we 
tried  to  smooth  out  every  little 
inconsistency  that  appears  in  the 
manuscript  submitted.  Studio 
Light  would,  indeed,  prove  dull 
reading.  Every  contributor  with 
every  pen  dip  would  be  thinking, 


"Will  this  get  by  the  blue  pen- 
cil?" instead  of  thinking,  "Am  I 
making  my  point  clear?" 

In  the  interests  of  hot-stuff, 
Ave  propose  to  let  the  Aristo  man, 
the  D.  O.  P.  man  and  the  Plati- 
num man  each  crow  his  loudest. 
We  shall  not  force  any  one  of 
them  to  crow  at  a  certain  pitch,  in 
order  to  make  a  crescendo  in 
favor  of  any  particular  product. 
As  to  the  respective  merits  of 
different  kinds  of  products,  we 
are  often  out  of  key.  As  to  the 
quality  of  Eastman  products, 
however,  Ave  are  in  harmony.  On 
this  point  we  can  crow  m  key 
and  at  concert  pitch. 

Editor. 


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UR    ILLUSTRATIONS 


The  splendid  group  of  the 
officials  of  the  P.  A.  of  A.  which 
Ave  use  as  a  fi-ontispiece  is  from 
the  studio  of  J.  E.  Mock  of 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 

The  remainder  of  the  illustra- 
tions are  from  Aristo  Platino 
prints  made  by  Bauer  &  Coffey 
of  Kansas  City,  Mo.  The  illus- 
tration on  our  coA'er  for  March 
Avas  from  the  same  studio  and 
elicited  much  favorable  comment, 
and  Ave  are  pleased  to  afford  our 
readers  further  examples  of  their 
most  artistic  Avork. 

The  Bauer  &  Coffey  Studio 
have  made  a  specialty  of  Platino, 
as  they  find  it  splendidly  adapted 
to  their  high-class  custom. 


1) 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


FROM  AN  ARISTO  TLATINO  PRINT 
By  Bauer  cf-  Coffey  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  a  ?i  d 


SOME  THOUGHTS  ON 
SPRING 

BY    THE    OFFICE   BOY 

Ma  says  it's  time  for  me  to 
take  a  sirring  tonic.  I  ast  the 
Boss  Avot  was  a  spring  tonic  for, 
an'  he  says  "a  spring  tonic  is  a 
dope  for  a  lazy  man  so  he  can 
have  an  excuse  for  bein'  lazy  a 
little  while  longer."  He  said  if 
I  took  mor'n  one  dose  he'd  fire 
me  sm-e. 

The  Boss  saj's,  "give  your  l)usi- 
ness  a  spring  tonic,  but  pass  it 
up  yourself."  He  says  the  man 
that  owns  a  business  is  the  heart, 
hver  and  lungs  of  that  busi- 
ness, an'  he's  got  to  be  mighty 
careful  how  he  monkeys  with 
himself  or  he'll  land  the  business 
in  the  hospittle. 

The  Boss  says  "keep  the  vital 
part  of  your  business  in  good 
shape  by  workin'  hard  six  days  iii 
the  week  and  sleepin'  hard  seven 
nights, — shut  off  steam  one  day 
in  the  week  an'  give  your  in- 
wards a  chance  to  cool  off  and 
rest  up.  He  says  "hard  Avork 
never  killed  anybody"  (he  looked 
hard  at  me  when  he  said  that) 
— but  that  Avorryin'  killed  a  lot  of 
people  (he  didn't  look  hard  at  me 
Avhen  he  said  that) .  The  Boss 
says  Avorryin'  is  a  good  bit 
like  a  httle  bit  of  sand  gittin' 
into  the  cylinder  of  an  engine — 
don't  amount  to  much  in  itself, 
but  it  keeps  grindin '  along  inside 
an'  pretty  soon  the  Avhole  engine 
is   to  the  bad.     The  Boss  says. 


"Don't  Avorry,  if  there's  any 
Avorryin'  to  be  done  let  the  other 
felloAV  do  it.  If  you  oAve  the 
grocer  or  stock  dealer  a  little  bit 
— don't  waste  time  worvyin  about 
it,  but  use  that  time  hustlin'  for 
business  to  get  the  money  to  pay 
'em  AA'ith." 

The  Boss  says  "Hustle — that 
Avhile  Avorrying  is  like  the  sand 
inside  the  cylinder,  hustlin'  is 
like  good  slick  grease  to  lubricate 
things  Avith — and  if  you  put  in  all 
your  time  hustlin'  —  Avhy,  you 
amt  got  no  time  left  to  Avorry. 
You  can  afford  to  trust  a  hustler 
for  a  month  longer,  but  you  can't 
afford  to  trust  a  Avorrier  for  a 
minute." 

Gee !  aint  card  mounts  heavy 
— the  Boss  got  in  a  lot  of  stuff 
fi-om  Taprell's  the  other  day — 
gettin'  ready  for  the  convention 
— sure  he's  goin'  to  have  an  ex- 
hibit—  saj'S  he's  going  to  have 
tAvo  of  'em — one  for  the  conven- 
tion an'  one  for  the  shoAV  case 
here  Avhile  he's  gone,  so  the 
recejition  room  girl  Avill  have 
somethin'  to  do.  Says  he's  a 
notion  to  put  a  card  in  his  shoAv 
case  readin',  "These  are  pretty 
good,  but  Avait  for  the  ncAV 
ideas  I  am  goin'  to  firing  home 
from  the  Photograijhers  Conven- 
tion." 

The  Boss  says  the  printer  won't 
be  the  only  busy  one  when  he  gets 
back,  an'  j'ou  can  bet  he's  right 
for  our  reception  room  girl  is  a 
hustler.  She'll  Avork  that  shoAV 
case  idea  to  a  finish. 


JJ 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATING  PRINT 

'  Bauer  &  Coffey  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


A    STARTER 

"*■  ■*■  Yes,  I  know  there  is 
money  in  making  enlargements, 
and  I  have  been  going  to  take  it 
up,  but  somehow  haven't  got 
around  to  it. 

But  supposing  the  other  fellow 
down  the  street  thinks  just  as  5'ou 
do  and  starts  in  making  them, 
isn't  he  not  only  going  to  scoop 
in  some  nice  easy  money,  but 
also  take  a  bit  of  the  wind  out 
of  your  sails  ? 

We  have  published  a  booklet 
on  Enlarging,  forty-eight  pages 
of  suggestions,  working  plans 
and  formukt,  just  to  help  you 
get  started.  This  is  not  an  ama- 
teur booklet,  but  one  written 
from  your  view  point,  and  up  to 
your  knowledge  of  things  pho- 
tographic. The  booklet  takes  up 
and  exi)lains  the  making  of  en- 
largements by  both  daylight  and 
artificial  light;  Avith  specially 
constructed,  readj^-to-use  appa- 
ratus, and  bj"  adapting  some  cam- 
era you  alread}^  possess  to  this 
purpose.  It  affords  full  instruc- 
tion for  constructing  apparatus 
for  daylight  use,  for  use  by  arti- 
ficial light  with  and  without  cox- 
DExsERs.  It  tells  you  the  most 
suitable  forms  of  artificial  light 
and  how  to  employ  them  to  the 
best  advantage.  It  explains 
about  condensers,  the  correct  size 
to  use,  how  to  mount  them,  and 
just  where  to  place  them.  How 
large  a  room  Avill  you  require  ? 
Consult  pages  seventeen  and 


eighteen,  there  you  will  find 
tables  affording  the  exact  distance 
for  enlargements  from  one  to 
twenty  times,  with  any  lens  from 
five  to  twentj'-five-inch  focus. 
The  booklet  tells  you  the  best 
sort  of  lens  to  use  and  why ;  the 
proper  qualities  in  the  negative 
for  best  results;  test  exposures; 
development,  with  fonnukc ;  how 
to  produce  good  prints  and  what 
to  avoid;  how  to  produce  soft 
effects;  vignetting,  printing  in 
clouds ;  how  to  mount  on  cards, 
on  cloth  and  on  stretchers;  how 
to  produce  sepia  tones;  how  to 
produce  olive  tones ;  what  grade 
or  brand  of  paper  to  use,  and 
why ;  and  many  other  invaluable 
suggestions. 

The  booklet  is  yours  for  the 
asking  from  jour  stock  dealer  or 
fi'om  us  by  mail. 

Ask  for  a  copy  to-day  and  get 
started. 


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ONEY   IN  LEATHER 
NOVELTIES 

Taprell,  Loomis  &  Company 
have  lately  placed  on  the  mar- 
ket a  line  of  Leather  Novelties, 
which  offer  a  Avonderful  oppor- 
tunity to  photographers  to  make 
extra  money  and  to  swing  a 
cheap  grade  of  pictures  into  a 
good  grade. 

First  of  all,  they  have  a  line 
of  Black  Seal  Grain  Leather 
Gentility  Card  Cases  and  Bill 
Books,  with  openings  for  a  2  x  3 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATING  PRINT 
By  Bauer  rf-  Coffey  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


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STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


picture.  If  you  are  making  a 
specialty  of  baby  pictures,  you 
can  offer  a  special  grade  on  a  dif- 
ferent mount  and  one  of  these 
Bill  Book  Novelties,  making  the 
increased  cost  of  your  stjle  pay 
for  the  Bill  Book  mounts,  besides 
netting  you  a  handsome  profit. 

They  are  also  showing  some- 
thing very  unique  in  Leather 
Novelties  for  a  penny  picture 
photo.  There  is  the  Midget 
Pocket  Book  to  hold  a  Print 
f  X  l|^,  the  Souvenir  Match  Safe 
and  Watch  Fob.  They  have 
been  put  at  remarkably  low 
prices,  and  no  photographer 
should  fail  to  insist  on  seeing 
them  when  the  traveling  sales- 
man calls. 


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HY   GIVE    IT   TO 
TOMPKINS.? 

It's  the  man  Avho  can  do  un- 
usual things  just  Avhen  thej'  are 
needed  that  gets  the  big  monej*. 
The  only  man  at  hand  who  can 
deliver  what  some  one  else  wants, 
and  wants  badly,  can  come  pretty 
near  obtaining  his  o\n\  price  for  it. 

Any  commercial  photographer 
can  go  out  and  make  an  outside 
jol),  but  just  for  this  reason  his 
profit  on  the  job  is  often  small, 
because  the  man  across  the  street 
or  in  the  next  block  can  do  it  just 
as  well  as  he  can. 

There  are  lots  of  jobs  the  man 
with  the  ordinaiy  equipment  can 
not  do,  just  aching  to  be  done,  and 


lots  of  prospective  business  to  be 
worked  up  from  the  work  already 
in  sight.  Let  us  take  for  instance 
a  real  estate  dealer  Avho  has  a 
beautiful  country  home  or  estate 
placed  in  his  hands  for  sale. 
Now  there  is  a  good  fat  commis- 
sion for  him  if  he  effects  the  sale, 
and  he  wants  that  commission 
badly,  and  is  worried  every 
moment  for  fear  the  owner  will 
place  it  in  some  other  agent's 
hands,  and  that  the  other  agent 
Avill  find  a  purchaser  first.  He 
will  rush  eveiy  probable  custo- 
mer he  can  get  hold  of  out  to  see 
it,  but  supposing  he  leanis  of 
some  customer  at  a  distance,  or 
one  closer  at  hand,  that  for  some 
reason  cannot  come  and  \iew  the 
propertj  ,  Mouldn't  he  be  wilhng 
to  i)ay  a  big  price  for  a  picture 
that  would  clearly  and  adequately 
show  the  estate  and  its  surround- 
ings? Fifty,  a  hundred  or  even 
three  hundred  dollars  wouldn't 
make  much  of  a  hole  m  his  com- 
mission on  a  big  sale  hke  that, 
and  he  Avould  be  a  poor  business 
man  indeed  who  wouldn't  risk 
a  little  to  gain  so  much. 

But  where  could  he  get  a 
picture  or  pictures  hke  that 
made?  You  couldn't  make  'em 
right  A\ith  your  view  box,  or 
Smith  or  Jones  ^\\t\v  their  regu- 
lar outfits  couldn't  either,  and 
so  Mr.  Real  Estate  Dealer  just 
goes  begging  some  one  to  make 
this  nice  big  bunch  of  easymoney. 

Pretty  soon  he  learns  of  a  man 
in  a  near-by  city  that  can  make 


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just  -what  he  wants,  out  he  goes. 
"Tompkins,  can  you  make  me 
some  views  of  an  estate  that  will 
show  just  how  it  looks,  some- 
thing that  will  take  in  a  lot,  and 
show  not  onlj'  just  how  the  coun- 
try home  looks,  but  just  how  it 
appears  when  you  are  approach- 
ing it,  and  the  splendid  pano- 
ramic views  from  the  library  or 
fi-ont  portico?"  Tompkins  says, 
"Surely,  I  can,"  shows  him  some 
samples  of  work,  ar.d  names  a 
good  fat  price.  "Hang  the 
price,"  says  Mr.  Real  Estate 
Dealer,  "how  soon  can  you  make 
'em?"  and  pretty  soon  in  Avalks 
Mr.  Tompkins  into  your  town 
Avith  his  Cirkut  Camera,  and  car- 
ries off  a  lot  of  dollars  that  might 
have  gone  to  you. 

But  I  can't  afford  to  keep  a 
special  outfit  on  hand  just  for  a 
job  like  that — of  course  you  can't, 
and  neither  can  Tompkins,  but 
between  ourselves,  the  first  job 
or  so  Tompkins  made  with  his 
Cirkut  paid  for  his  outfit,  and 
now  all  he  makes  with  it  is 
largely  velvet,  and  his  Cirkut  is 
kept  pretty  busy. 

When  Tompkins  bought  his 
Cirkut  he  didn't  hide  it  away  in 
a  closet  and  say  nothing ;  no,  sir, 
he  went  out  and  made  some  sam- 
ples— good  ones,  framed  them 
up  and  placed  them  where  people 
could  see  them  and  know  that 
Tompkins  made  them.  Then  the 
first  job  came  along,  Tompkins 
named  a  good  price — but  no  one 
else  at  hand  could  do  the  job. 


There  are  a  multitude  of  op- 
portunities to  make  pictures  that 
only  the  Cirkut  can  make,  right 
at  hand.  Real  estate  men,  own- 
ers of  country  estates,  factory 
corporations,  railroads,  highway 
commissions,  contractors,  pro- 
moters of  athletic  events,  all  are 
not  only  possible  but  very  prob- 
able customers. 

Don't  let  Tompkins  come  into 
your  territory  again,  but  land 
this  extra  profit  for  yourself. 

A  postal  card  to  the  Century 
Camera  Division  at  Rochester 
will  bring  you  a  most  interesting 
booklet  telling  you  all  about  the 
Cirkut  —  there  is  a  mail  train 
going  that  way  to-night. 


A 


FAIR  CHANCE 


The  busy  season  is  nearly 
at  hand,  and  we  expect  our  plate 
tanks  to  save  us  a  Avhole  lot  of 
time  and  hard  work,  but  we  must 
give  the  tanks  a  fair  chance  and 
not  expect  them  to  make  up  for 
our  oAAii  carelessness  and  inaccu- 
racj". 

When  we  are  given  a  time  or 
labor  saving  device  we  are  apt, 
after  we  have  become  accustom- 
ed to  its  usefulness,  to  become 
a  bit  careless,  and  then  if  it  fails 
to  perform  its  functions  perfectly, 
to  declare  it  "no  good, "  when  the 
fault  lies  entirely  with  ourselves. 

We  have  had  the  theory  of 
"time  and  temperature"  develop- 
ment— the  foundation  of  the  tank 


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Batter  rf-  Coffey  Kansas  Ciiy,  Mo. 


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By  Bauer  <£•  Coffey  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


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system  pounded  into  us  until  we 
know  it  by  heart,  yet  some  of  us 
have  been  known  to  guess  at  the 
temperature  bj'  the  insertion  of  a 
more  or  less  calloused  forefinger, 
and  to  guess  at  the  time  by  esti- 
mating how  long  we  had  been 
out  of  the  dark  room. 

Again,  some  of  us,  thank  for- 
tune, not  many,  have  been  known 
to  make  up  our  developer  by 
guess — a  pinch  of  this,  a  handful 
of  that — the  way  mother  makes  a 
cake — and  then  cuss  the  tank 
because  results  were  not  perfect. 

Yes,  you  can  fix  the  plates  in 
the  tank,  but  what's  the  use, 
nine  hundred  and  ninety-nine  out 
of  every  thousand  of  us  have  a 
good  fixing  box  already  installed 
in  our  dark  room,  with  a  good 
fixing  bath  in  it,  and  it  is  only  a 
few  moments  Avork  to  ti'ansfer  the 
plates  from  the  tank  to  the  fixing 
box.  Before  we  had  the  the  tank, 
we  would  have  jumped  on  any 
one  good  and  hard  who  put  hypo 
in  our  pet  developing  trays. 

Of  course  it  is  a  simple  matter 
to  cleanse  the  tank  or  tray  fi'om 
the  hypo,  but  suppose  some  time 
you  are  in  a  big  hurry  and  forget 
it — the  hypo  wont  ruin  your  neg- 
atives, it's  true,  but  it  will  make 
some  difference,  and  it's  just  as 
easj^  to  have  them  exactly  right 
as  a  little  off. 

There  isn '  t  a  supei-fluous  word 
or  bit  of  instruction  in  the  tank 
manual — we  not  only  wanted  but 
had  to  simplify  it  in  every  way 
possible  and  the  instructions  are 


few  and  simple,  j-et  what  there 
m-e  must  be  followed  to  make  the 
tank  the  real  helper  and  time 
saver  it  is  meant  to  be — and  is. 
Folloiv  the  few  simple  instruc- 
tions and  the  tank  will  do  the 
rest. 


rpHE   SIGNAL 

'*-  We  have  had  a  lot  to  say 
about  tested  chemicals  —  pure 
chemicals — in  these  columns  and 
in  our  advertising  pages.  The 
subject  is  an  imjjortant  one  and 
demands  earnest  consideration  bj' 
you  and  by  us.  Our  efforts  to 
produce  and  market  a  line  of 
tested  chemicals,  absolutely  right 
for  photographic  use,  arose  not 
so  much  from  oyxr  desire  to  in- 
crease our  business  in  chemicals 
and  chemical  preparations,  as  to 
further  increase  the  surety  that 
our  manufactured  products  with 
which  these  chemicals  were  to  be 
used,  would  have  the  best  possi- 
ble treatment,  in  order  to  yield 
the  best  possible  results.  We 
could  afford  to  spend  a  lot  of 
money  in  investigation  and  tests 
—  more  than  any  manufacturer  of 
chemicals  or  chemical  prepara- 
tions, for  our  interest,  unlike  his, 
does  not  cease  with  the  sale  of 
the  chemicals  —  we  must  see  not 
only  that  our  chemicals  are  right, 
but  that  they  are  exactly  suited 
to  our  other  products.  We  do 
want  to  increase  the  sale  of  our 
tested  chemicals  —  and  it  is  obvi- 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATING  PRINT 


By  Bauer  <&  Coffey 


Kansas  City,  Mo. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


ous  that  our  interest  is  much 
greater  than  the  securing  of  the 
profits  arising  from  their  sale 
alone. 

The  only  way  we  can  hold  your 
friendship  and  patronage  is  by  af- 
fording you  the  means  for  produc- 
ing uniformly  good  results  the 
easiest  and  simplest  way.  We 
dare  not  leave  any  loo])hole  for 
failure.  We  must  make  every 
product  just  the  best  Ave  know 
how  and  we  must  go  further  and 
take  more  pains  than  anyone  else 
in  giving  you  the  right  chemicals 
to  work  our  products  Avith.  You 
in  your  turn  are  just  as  anxious 
to  secure  good  results  as  we  are 
to  have  you. 

We  have  adopt- 
ed this  trade  mark 
and  have  afforded 
it  a  prominent 
place  on  the  pack- 
ages of  our  prep- 
arations as  a  signal - 
and  safe  to  follow  —  a  signal  for 
our  mutual  benefit. 


A 


HELP  AT  COST 


CONVENTION 


THE     T  I  ^I  E 

July  19-24 


THE    PLACE 
Rochester,  New  York 


We  want  to  make  Studio 
Light  an  all  around  helper  for  the 
profession.  There  has  been  a  lot 
of  Avork,  and  some  of  it  good 
Avork,  done  for  the  photogra- 
phers by  the  photographic  maga- 
zines in  the  Avay  of  giving  sound 
advice  on  advertising  subjects. 
But  the  photograi)her  has  been 
handica))i)ed  in  the  obtaining  of 
good  illustrations  for  use  in  his 
neAvspaper  advertising.  Line  cuts 
are  the  only  kind  that  Avill  Avork 
Avith  advantage,  and  to  have 
drawings  made  and  then  have 
zinc  etchings  made  from  the 
draAvings  is  obviously  too  expen- 
si\e  for  the  aA^erage  photogra- 
pher. 

Our  plan  is  to  furnish  cuts  at 
a  price  you  can  afford  to  pay.  We 
expect  to  lose  something  on  the 
scheme,  but  if  Ave  can  help  5"ou 
increase  your  business  Ave  shall 
hope  to  do  enough  more  business 
Avith  you  to  come  out  all  right  in 
the  long  run. 

We  can  buy  electrotypes 
cheaply,  and  shall  sell  them  at  a 
very  slight  advance,  to  partly 
pay  us  for  the  cost  of  draAvings 
and  etchings.  An  aA'erage  draAV- 
ing  for  this  purpose  Avill  cost  us, 
say,  815.00,  and  the  zinc  etch- 
ing a  dollar  or  so  more  If  Ave 
charge  you  five  cents  each  OA'er 
the  actual  cost  of  electrotypes 
and  postage,  aac  Avould  have  to 
sell  OA'er  three  hundred  from  each 
draAA'ing  to    break  CA^en — to  say 


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KuA 


Photographs  of  the  chil- 
dren—pictures for  their 
friends,  —  pictures  for  your 
family  and  your  wife's  — 
pictures  for  you  and  the 
children  both  to  look  on  in 
future  years  and  brin.o-  back 
the  childhood  days  again. 

We  take  them,  and  take  them  so 
well  that  they  catch  a  U  the  charms 
and  preserve  them  for  you. 

Telephone  for  an  Appointment. 

The  Pyro  Studio 


No.  130 


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nothing  of  our  packing  and  cleri- 
cal work.  Just  Avhat  we  shall 
charge  will  depend  somewhat  on 
how  nianj^  we  find  you  ordering 
per  month.  At  any  rate,  the 
charge  to  j'ou  will  be  merely 
nominal,  but  will  \nvy  somewhat 
fi'om  time  to  time  with  the 
size  of  the  electros  and  the 
cost  of  the  drawings.  This 
month's  electro  as  shown  on 
page  21,  will  be  furnished  for  50 
cents,  postpaid.  Please  order  by 
number  and  remit  in  stamps. 

The  text  matter,  as  shown  in 
our  sample  advertisement,  is 
a  suggestion — the  electros  do  not 
contain  any  printed  matter,  but 
are  properly  mortised  to  receive 
same, 

ONE   CONDITION 

It  is  obvious  that  two  i:)hotog- 
raphers  in  the  same  town  would 
not  care  to  use  the  same  cut,  and 
we  are  therefore  obliged  to  limit 
this  offer  to  one  photographer  in 
a  town.  It  will  be  a  case  of  first 
come  first  served.  The  first  order 
fi-om  a  city  Avill  be  promi)tly 
filled.  Succeeding  orders  (if  any) 
will  necessarily"  be  turned  down 
and  the  remittance,  of  course, 
will  be  returned. 

We  shall  vary  the  style  and 
size  fi'om  month  to  month,  shall 
have  good  drawings  and  good 
cuts,  and  shall  endeavor  to  make 
this  service  highly  valuable  to 
the  profession.  We  shall  not  make 
a  dollar  of  direct  profit  on  it. 
We  hope  that  it  will  prove  profit- 


able to  you — but  you  must  not 
expect  too  much  in  immediate 
results.  The  advertising  road  is 
a  long  one  to  travel  on,  and  the 
fare  is  high — but  if  it  is  steadily 
followed  and  is  backed  up  by 
good  goods  and  good  service,  the 
Advertiser  is  sure  to  arrive  on 
schedule  time  at  the  teraiinal 
station — Successtown, 


A  BAD  DREAM 
Br-r-r-r-r— "Hello!  Is 
this  you,  Mr.  Thompson?  This 
is  Mrs.  Brown  of  St.  Paul's 
Chin-ch.  We  sold  all  those  large 
pictures  of  the  church  at  the 
Church  Fair  last  night,  and  we 
can  sell  fifty  more  to-night  if  we 
can  get  them." 

"I'm  tremendously  sorry,  Mrs. 
Brown,  but  I  haven't  any  more 
eight  by  ten  paper;  you  see,  I 
buy  all  my  paper  direct  from  the 
factory,  and  it  will  take  at  least 
three  days  to  get  here." 

"Oh  Dear !  " —  Gloom ! 

Smash!  Well  of  all  the  care- 
less —  there  goes  my  big  toning 
tray  and  it  will  take  a  week  to 
get  one  from  the  factory  —  more 
gloom . 

Why,  what's  the  use  of  wor- 
rymg,  you  can  send  over  to  the 
stock  house  and  get  your  eight- 
ten  paper  and  a  new  tray,  and 
have  'em  here  in  thirty  minutes. 

Yes,  I  know  I  could  in  the 
good  old  days,  but  there  are  no 
stock  houses  now;    you  see,  we 


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figured  out  that  we  could  save 
the  retailers'  profit  by  buj'ing  di- 
rect fi-om  the  factory,  and  also 
always  have  fresh  goods  to  use  — 
direct  from  the  factory  —  so  the 
stock  houses  Avent  out  of  busi- 
ness. 

—  Please,  Mr.  Thompson, 
we're  all  out  of  Pyro  —  Jimmie 
forgot  to  order  any  —  and  the 
printer  saj's  that  five-seven  pa- 
per is  so  old  he  can't  use  it. — 

Well,  you  ought  to  have  made 
a  good  bit  extra  by  saving  the 
dealers'  profit. 

Saved!  Extra  profit!  —  Say, 
you  come  here,  young  man,  and 
have  a  look  —  see  that  store 
room  —  there  is  more  extra  profit 
tied  up  in  there  than  I  can  get 
out  in  twentj*  years,  and  no  mat- 
ter how  carefully  I  plan  mj'  buy- 
ing —  we  are  ahvays  out  of  Avhat 
we  want  in  a  hurry,  and  in  spite 
of  everything,  stock  will  get  old 
on  my  hands. 

Well,  can't  you  exchange  with 
the  other  photographers?  Wish 
I  could,  but  they  are  all  in  the 
same  bad  boat  that  I  am  —  we 
ahvays  seem  to  be  out  of  every- 
thing that's  needed. 

Oh !  Wow !  My,  but  that  was 
an  awful  dream.  Mighty  glad 
we  didn't  all  take  up  with  that 
"from  factory  to  user,"  extra 
profit  scheme  —  guess  the  stock 
inan  earns  his  profit  all  right. 

"Jimmie,  rim  over  to  Smith's 
and  get  three  gross  Aristo  cabs., 
two  dozen  fourteen-seventeen 
Royal  Bromide,  and  a  half  dozen 


Six-H  Retouching  pencils  —  and, 
wait  a  minute,  give  him  this 
check  for  last  month's  account." 


V^ 


T    USTRE 

■^^^  A  slight  lustre  to  the  sur- 
face of  a  sepia  print  imparts  a 
depth  and  delicacj'  to  the  shad- 
ows that  adds  greatly  to  its  at- 
tractiveness. Many  photogra- 
phers are  producing  this  efiect  by 
applying  wax  to  the  surface  of 
the  print  and  many  more  or  less 
satisfaetorj"  formulas  for  this  pur- 
pose have  been  pulilished.  Un- 
fortunately the  photographer  is 
not  always  able  to  secure  just  the 
proper  ingredients,  and  if  the 
effect  is  not  all  it  should  be  he 
gives  up  the  idea  as  impractical. 

Nepera  Waxing  Solution  is 
made  especiallj'  for  the  purpose 
and  Avill  afford  good  results  every 
time.  It  is  especially  effective 
on  sepia  toned  Royal  Nepera 
])rints.  Apply  evenly  Avith  cotton 
fiannel  and  rub  into  the  surface. 

The  price  is  twenty  cents  per 
bottle,  at  all  dealers'. 


KEEP   YOUR    EYE   ON 

THE  EASTMAN 
SCHOOL    BULLETIN 

NEW  DATINGS   EACH 
ISSUE 


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U  L  L  E  T  I  X  ;   THE  EASTMAN  SCHOOL  OF 
PROFESSIONAL  PHOTOGRAPHY  FOR  1909 


Auspices  M.  L.Jones,  Ft.Wajne,  Ind.,  April  6,  1,  8. 

Auspices  Walter    K.   Schmidt  Co.,   Grand   Rapids,   Mich.,  April 
14,  15,  16. 

Auspices  O.  H.  Peck  Co.,  Minneapohs,  Minn.,  April  20,  21,  22. 

Auspices  Illinois  College  of  Photography,  Effingham,  111.,  April 

27,  28,  29. 

Illinois  Convention,  Springfield,  111.,  May  4,  5,  6,  7. 
Auspices  W.  F.  Uhlman,  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  May  11,  12,  13. 
Auspices  Charles  Lawrence, Wichita,  Kansas,  May  18,  19,  20. 
Auspices  C.  Weichsel  Co.,  Dallas,  Texas,  May  25,  26,  27. 
Auspices  F.  J.  Feldman,  El  Paso,  Texas,  June  1,  2,  3. 
Auspices  Howland&  Dewey  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  June  8,  9,  10. 
Auspices  Hirsch  &  Kaiser,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  June  15,  l6,  17. 

Auspices    Portland   Photo  Supply  Co.,    Portland,  Oregon,  June 

22,  23,  24. 

Auspices  Tacoma  Dental  &  Photo  Supply  Co.,  Tacoma,  Wash., 
June  29,  30,  July  1. 

Auspices  Robt.  Dempster  Co.,  Omaha,  Neb.,  July  14,  15,  l6. 

Auspices   Memphis    Photo   Supply    Co.,    Memphis,    Tenn.,  July 
20,  21,  22. 


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00       1.90 

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for  use  in  the  Studio 


A  complete  line  of 

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when  yoa  spend 
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To  be  sure  look  for 
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THE  Cirkut  Camera  opens  up 
an  entirely  new  and  profitable 
field  of  photographic  work. 

The  user  of  a  Cirkut  is  not  restricted  to  plates  of 
conventional  sizes;  he  may  include  in  the  nega- 
tive as  much  of  the  view  as  the  subject  may  re- 
quire. With  the  No.  16  Cirkut,  negatives  of  any 
length  up  to  eighteen  feet  may  be  made. 

Cirkut  Catalog  free  on  request. 

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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 
By  11.  E.  Gray  Houston,  Texas 


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A  Magazine   of    I  n  f  o  r  m  a  t  i  o  ti    for   the   Profession 


NEW    SERIFS 

Vol.  1     No.  3 


MAY  1  9  0  9 


OLD    SERIES 
No.    100 


THE  PHOTOGRAPH- 
ERS ASSOCIATION 
OF  AMERICA 

COXVENTIOX    OF    1909 

It  is  with  a  sense  of  optimism 
for  the  future  of  the  P.  A.  of  A. 
that  plans  are  contemiilated  for 
the  Rochester  convention  which 
are  intricate,  arduous  and  vitally 
essential  to  the  future  welfare  of 
]>hotographers.  I  would  shrink 
before  the  task  undertaken  were 
it  not  for  the  hearty  support  and 
approval  of  the  rank  and  file  of 
our  cratt.  Their  loyal  supjiort  of 
my  chief  aim  and  desire,  that  of 
amalgamating  the  interests  of  the 
state  associations,  has  led  me  to 
believe  the  tiine  has  come  to 
place  this  matter  before  our  mem- 
bers for  discussion. 

We  have  year  after  year  spent 
our  time  and  money  congregat- 
ing together,  and  that  we  have 
been  benefitted,  instructed  and 
socially  entertained  each  year  is 
best  proven  by  the  continuous 
interest  and  attendance. 

This  year  we  desire  you  shall 
have  all  the  good  that  has  ma- 
tured out  of  the  past,  but  let  us 
seriously  and  unselfishly  bend  our 


energies  toward  i)erfecting  a  uni- 
versal brotherhood  A\hich  shall 
in  time  include  the  majority  of 
the  professional  jjhotograjjhers  of 
the  United  States  and  Canada, 

This  is  a  big  undertaking,  but 
not  impossible  nor  improbable. 
All  that  is  needed  is  the  earnest 
and  selfwilled  intent  of  the  best 
minds  of  our  profession.  Canvass- 
ing among  our  meml^ers  for  their 
opinions  has  demonstrated  that 
action  is  Ijoth  wise  and  expedient. 
It  has  therefore  been  decided  to 
start  the  movement  which  I  hope 
Avill  culminate  in  a  perfect  work- 
ing congress  of  photography. 

This  plan  will  in  no  wise  in- 
terfere with  the  state  societies, 
but  to  the  contrary  it  will  tend 
to  strengthen  and  increase  them, 
as  in  my  opinion  M'ith  such  an 
organization  no  one  could  become 
an  active  member  of  the  P.  A. 
of  A.  unless  he  hold  credentials 
from  his  state  society.  All  others 
would  be  associate  members  and 
would  be  deprived  of  none  of 
the  privileges  except  votmg. 

The  legislative  work  could 
then  be  conducted  by  delegates 
from  the  state  associations  elect- 
ed or  appointed  by  their  respect- 


STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


ive  societies.  In  order  that  this 
plan  may  have  a  practical  test  I 
am  placing  this  matter  before 
each  state  society,  asking  for 
delegates  who  will  assemble  at 
Rochester  for  the  purpose  of 
perfecting  a  future  plan  of  ac- 
tion. Their  report  will  then  be 
])laced  before  om-  members  for 
consideration. 

The  Ohio-Michigan,  the  first 
convention  of  the  year,  has 
taken  favorable  action  and  the 
following  delegates  have  been 
appointed : 

For  Ohio — C.  L.  Lewis,  To- 
ledo; \V.  L.  Smith,  St.  Mary's; 
J.  A.  Walker,   Bowling  Green. 

For  Michigan — E.  E.  Dotj", 
Belding;  J.  E.  Rentchler,  Ann 
Ai-bor;    E.  J.  Traj",  Jackson. 

The  Canadian  Association  have 
abandoned  their  convention  for 
1909;  and  are  to  attend  the 
Rochester  convention  in  body, 
and  Avill  appoint  delegates. 
They  are  ready  to  support  this 
undertaking,  which  makes  this 
year  one  of  opi)ortunity  for  in- 
ternational results. 

This  invitation  is  now  before 
the  New  York  and  Pennsylva- 
nia state  associations  for  ap- 
proval, and  Avill  be  advanced  to 
all  other  organized  bodies  of 
professional  photographers  be- 
fore the  meeting  of  our  conven- 
tion in  Jul}'. 

Arrangements  have  been  per- 
fected whereby  the  delegates 
will  meet  in  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  Hall,  aj^art  from  the 


convention;  this  procedure  vnH 
demonstrate  the  wisdom  of  a 
delegated  body  for  legislative 
action  in  the  interest  of  pho- 
tographers generally. 

As  soon  as  notification  of  the 
election  of  a  delegate  is  re- 
ceived, appropriate  credentials 
will  be  assigned  him,  and  no 
person  will  be  recognized  or  ad- 
mitted to  this  congress  without 
them.  The  congress  Avill  act 
independently  of  convention  and 
repoi-t  its  deliberations  to  the 
P.  A.  of  A.  for  amendments,  or 
adoption. 

There  are  to  be  other  matters 
pertaining  to  the  week's  accom- 
plishments, other  than  law  and 
organization,  which  Avill  make 
for  the  Rochester  convention 
the  heaviest  week's  woi'k  in  the 
history  of  its  twenty-nine  years' 
service  to  photogi-aphers. 

The  School  of  Photography 
will  be  represented  by  the  fore- 
most men  of  our  profession,  and 
conducted  in  Convention  Hall 
under  the  leadership  of  Ryland 
W.  Phillips,  of  Philadelphia. 
For  persistence  and  untiring  en- 
ergy, this  man  Phillips  has  no 
superior,  and  when  he  conducts 
this  school  we  are  assured  of  its 
success.  Back  of  him  stands 
every  member  of  our  association, 
ready  and  willing  to  lend  assist- 
ance. Details  of  the  school  will 
be  given  out  later. 

The  picture  exhibit  this  year 
is  to  be  complimentary.  This 
one  feature  of  convention  week 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


is  to  prove  the  contending  ojjin- 
ion  of  prizes.  I  have  now  filed 
away  treasured  letters  of  en- 
dorsement for  the  board's  atti- 
tude on  this  question  fi-om  many 
leading  photographers,  all  prom- 
ising their  best  efforts  and  an 
exhibit  for  the  Rochester  con- 
vention. Think  of  it,  seventy 
of  our  leading  men  promising 
from  four  to  six  i:)ictures,  and  at 
this  early  date.  I  pro])hesy  for 
the  Rochester  exhibition  one  of 
the  best  and  most  attractive  col- 
lections m  recent  years.  Many 
others  will  be  appealed  to  to 
sustain  the  prestige  of  Ameri- 
can professional  photography. 
As  the  pictures  are  to  be  cata- 
logued this  year,  Ave  must  know 
early  of  your  intentions  of  be- 
coming one  of  the  exhibitors. 
Therefore  be  loyal  to  your  asso- 
ciation and  friends  and  write 
Mr.  A.  T.  Proctor,  Huntington, 
W.  Va.,  of  your  intention  to 
send  from  four  to  six  of  your 
best  pictures,  neatly  framed, 
that,  when  our  i:)ictures  are 
hung,  Ave  may  all  point  Avith 
pride  to  our  Art  Gallery  of  I909. 
Remember  that  all  pictures  are 
to  be  hung  by  states,  so  let  us 
prove  Avhat  state  organization 
can  do  in  promoting  state  pride 
—  get  busy. 

The  women  of  America  are  to 
be  given  a  distinction  this  year 
by  exhibiting  collectively. 
Enough  signatures  have  been 
received  to  waiTant  the  success 
of  this  innovation,  but  the  avo- 


men  must  become  interested  to 
make  the  best  possible  shoAving, 
and  Avith  their  assured  co-opera- 
tion success  is  certain. 

There  is  so  much  Avork  to  be 
accomplished  in  this,  our  first 
six-day  convention,  that  we  are 
having  difficulty  in  finding  time 
to  Avork  out  the  Aveek's  program. 
One  day  of  the  week  is  given 
over  to  Rochester's  manufactur- 
ing interests,  Avhich  are  many  and 
varied.  You  can  choose  for  your- 
self Avhere  you  can  most  profit- 
ably spend  the  day.  The  East- 
man Kodak  Comi)any  have  asked 
for  one  night  to  entertain  our 
members,  and  this  has  been 
granted  them,  and  they  extend 
the  invitation  to  every  one,  man 
or  Avoman,  photographer  or 
dealer,  Avearing  a  button,  to  be 
present.  You  will  miss  a  good 
tmie  if  you  stay  aAvay. 

Redviced  railroad  rates  by 
the  Trunk  Line  Association,  Ncav 
England  Passenger  Association 
and  the  Eastern  Canadian  Asso- 
ciation, on  the  certificate  plan,  to 
one  fare  going,  and  three-fifths 
fare  returning,  is  the  first  reduced 
rate  Ave  have  enjoyed  in  three 
years.  I  am  sure  Ave  shall  be 
greatly  benefitted  by  this  conces- 
sion. Added  information  along 
this  line  Avill  be  given  out  as  fast 
as  received,  Avith  full  instructions 
as  to  the  purchasing  of  reduced 
rate  tickets. 

HoAV  about  your  dues  of 
$2.00?  Have  you  paid  them  for 
1909?     If  not,    send    to  L.   A. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


Dozei',  Bucyrus,  Ohio,  and  if  you 
are  in  arrears  he  Avill  tell  you  how 
you  stand.  If  you  are  not  already 
a  member  and  desire  to  become 
one,  send  $3.00  for  niembershi}> 
and  $2.00  for  annual  dues,  and 
upon  receipt  of  $5.00  Mr.  Dozer 
will  order  your  name  on  our  list 
and  send  you  receipt. 

Remember  the  $100  cash 
prize  which  will  be  awarded 
during  convention  week  for 
the  best  invention  or  process. 
Any  exhibitor  competing  must 
have  article  or  device  on  exhibi- 
tion throughout  convention  and 
make  public  demonstration  be- 
fore convention  members  at  a 
time  which  will  be  announced 
through  i^rogram.  There  should 
be  general  interest  in  this  invi- 
tation, and  it  sometimes  happens 
that  the  one  who  least  expects 
the  awai-d  is  successful  iii  taking 
home  the  monej'. 

The  headquarters  for  the  con- 
vention have  been  located  at  the 
Seneca,  a  new  and  modern  hotel, 
first-class  in  its  appointments  and 
near  to  Convention  Hall.  Write 
in  advance  and  secure  accommo- 
tions.  There  are  other  first-class 
hotels  which  offer  special  rates, 
including  the  Powers,  Rochester, 
Whitcomb  and  O shorn. 

It  is  time  to  begin  your  prep- 
arations for  the  convention.  Get 
your  exhibit  ready  now.  Take  a 
week's  vacation  in  July  and 
attend  the  big  convention  in 
Rochester.     Yours  truly, 

F.  R.  Barrows. 


A 


CHANGE  OF  BASE 

Dcm-  j\Ir.  Editor  : 

He  rose  to  the  hook,  didn't 
he? 

The  editor  of  the  Anti-Organ 
has  tried  to  fog  the  question. 
Unfortunately  for  him,  however, 
he  lost  his  temper,  and  is  now 
Avandering  m  the  fog  of  his  own 
creation. 

In  the  article  which  I  quoted 
in  my  letter,  published  in  your 
March  issue,  he  said  :  "The  stand- 
DARD  price  of  cabinets  for  some 
years  past  has  been  $2.00  per 
gi'oss  less  a  small  cash  discomit. 
The  price  was  originally  lower, 
but  was  iaoosted  when  the  com- 
pany thought  it  had  control  of 
the  paper  situation." 

In  my  letter  I  said:  "The 
price  of  Aristo  Platino  caliinets 
has  never  been  less  than  $2.00 
per  gross." 

He  710W  says,  "I  said  nothing 
about  the  Hst  price." 

Pray  tell  me,  if  the  list  price 
isn't  the  standard  price,  what 
is?  Next  he  tries  to  create  an 
impression  that  in  the  old  days 
the  photographers,  mind  you,  he 
says  "all  professional  photogra- 
phers," had  discounts  on  Aristo, 
and  dares  me  to  deny  it.  Most 
emphatically  I  do. 

The  facts  are  that  the  Aristo 
Company  received  exactly  the 
same  price  for  Aristo  Platino 
then  that  its  successor  the  East- 
man Kodak  Comi:)any  receives 
for  it  now.   The  list  price  was  the 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


same,  and  the  discount  to  the 
dealer  was  the  same.  It  is  by  no 
means  true  that  "all  j)rofL-ssional 
photographers, "  nor  for  that  mat- 
ter any  considei'able  percentage 
of  them  received  discounts.  It 
was  the  policy  of  the  Aristo 
Company  to  discourage  price  cut- 
ting between  dealers,  but  it  is 
admitted  that  that  same  policy 
has  been  more  successfully  car- 
ried out  by  the  Eastman  Kodak 
Company  than  by  its  predeces- 
sors. It  costs  the  dealer  on  the 
average  about  twenty  per  cent, 
to  do  business.  Surely  he  is  then 
entitled  to  the  twenty- five  per 
cent,  discount  which  he  receives, 
leaving  him  five  per  cent.  net. 

The  square  issue  was  and  is: 
The  Anti-Organ  stated  that  your 
publishers  had  "  b  o  o  s  t  e  d  " 
prices,  and  inferred  that  it  was 
for  the  sake  of  fattening  the 
dividends.  The  facts  are  that 
you  did  nothing  of  the  kind,  and 
that  you  do  not  receive  one  iota 
more  for  the  product  than  did 
your  predecessors. 

I  suggest  that  before  making 
so  many  easily  controvertil)le 
statements  that  the  editor  of  the 
Anti-Organ  study  up  the  history 
of  the  photographic  business  in 
this,  the  land  of  his  adoption. 
Yours  truly, 

Stereoscope. 


P.  S.— Please,  Mr.  Editor,  do 
you  know  of  any  manufacturer 
that  has,  within  the  last  decade, 
recommended  a  hot  hypo  alum 
bath  for  sepia  toning?  My  guess 
is,  that  hot  hypo  went  out  about 
ten  years  ago,  being  succeeded 
by  the  better  actor,  cold  alum, 
which  was  in  turn  succeeded 
several  years  ago  by  your  re-de- 
velopment process.  I  am 
prompted  to  these  remarks  and 
questions  by  an  advertisement  I 
saw  the  other  day,  which  had  a 
paragraph  in  it  that  read  like 
this:  "No  uncertain,  tedious, 
slow  and  unsafe  hot  hypo  alum 
bath  need  be  considered." 

If  you  can  find  out  Avho  wrote 
that  ad  you  had  better  invite 
him  to  come  up  to  Rochester 
and  see  what's  really  domg  in 
the  photographic  Avorld.  Only 
be  sure  to  let  him  know  there's 
a  railroad  —  he  may  not  have 
heard  of  it  yet,  and  it  would  be 
too  bad  to  have  him  waste  his 
valuable  time  coming  up  by 
canal. 

Who  Avas  it  that  said,  "Every 
whale  has  its  barnacles,  every 
success  its  imitators"?  Whoever 
it  was,  I'll  bet  my  studio  against 
a  pound  of  hypo  that  he  didn't 
travel  by  canal  ten  years  after 
the  railroad  opened. 

s. 


National  Convention  —  Rochester 

July  19,  20,  21,  22,  23,  24 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


R 


OYAL  NEPERA 
PURE  WHITE 


If  Graduate,  the  man  Avho 
took  up  nearly  two  pages  of 
March  Studio  Light  telUng  about 
how  good  Rojal  Nepera  (India- 
tint)  is,  had  only  seen  the  new 
Royal  Nepera  Pure  White  before 
he  wrote  his  article,  he  would 
have  filled  the  whole  book  if  Ave 
had  let  him. 

Every  good  thing  that  he  said 
about  Royal  Nepera — the  India- 
tint  kind — applies  to  the  new 
Royal  Nepera  Pure  White.  And 
as  an  additional  advantage  the 
new  paper,  as  the  name  indi- 
cates, is  on  a  white,  perfectly 
white,  stock. 

It's  a  paper  for  either  black 
and  white  or  sepias,  and  it 
doesn't  need  comparing  with  any 
other  paper.  You  can  follow  the 
straight  formula  for  black  and 
white  and  the  results  are  brilliant 
l)ut  full  of  gradation.  You  can 
juggle  it  a  bit  if  you  wish,  for 
one  man  Avill  like  a  warm  black 
and  another  a  cold  black.  One 
man  will  like  a  print  a  little 
softer  and  another  a  little  harder. 
Royal  Nepera  Pure  White  is  the 
most  tractable  paper  you  ever 
saw.  It  seems  to  want  to  be  ac- 
commodating, and  Avhile  sure  to 
come  along  alright  by  strict  ad- 
herence to  the  regular  formula 
will  do  most  anything  with  a  lit- 
tle coaxing — and  with  the  same 
kind  of  treatment  will  do  pre- 
cisely the  same  thing  the  next 


time.  Perhaps  the  best  descrip- 
tion of  a  black  and  white  Royal 
Nejiera  Pure  White  print  that 
we  can  give  is  to  say  that  we 
have  seen  some  rarely  fine  plati- 
nums that  were  most  as  good. 

And  sepia  toned  by  re-devel- 
opment it  has  a  delicacy  that  you 
simply  don't  get  on  other  papers. 
Not  a  whit  of  the  original  grada- 
tion is  lost.  You  simplj'  change 
the  color.  (Here's  a  case  where 
color  should  be  spelled  c-o-1- 
o-u-r,  just  as  it  is  in  the  old  art 
books.)  There's  no  question 
about  the  sepias  having  found 
favor.  They  are  the  growing 
vogue,  and  here's  a  paper  that 
you  can  furnish  them  on  easily, 
satisfactorily,  profitably.  Gradu- 
ate's plea  that  the  India-tint 
stock  harmonizes  with  the  sejiia 
tone  is  well  founded,  but  the 
average  customer  will  prefer  the 
pure  white  stock  because  of  the 
added  sparkle  that  it  gives  to 
the  high-lights.  Take  a  very 
contrasty  negative,  with  sketchy 
backgrounds  and  broad,  deep 
shadows,  and  it  will  produce  a 
more  artistic  sejjia  print  on  the  In- 
dia-tint Royal  than  on  any  other 
paper,  but  for  the  average  nega- 
tive and  the  average  customer 
the  Pure  White  has  just  the 
snappy  touch  that  will  please. 

Royal  Nepera  Pure  White  is 
an  all  around  i)aper  that  enables 
j'ou  to  furnish  two  very  different 
styles  of  prints  (black  and  white 
or  sepia)  fi'om  out  of  the  same 
box.   Like  the  other  Royals  it  is 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATING  PRINT 
By  U.  E.  Gray  Houston,  Texas 


10 


STUDIO    LIGHT    and 


really  a  double  weight  paper, 
though  sold  at  the  single  Aveight 
price,  and  as  it  lies  flat — not 
stiff  like  a  piece  of  roofing  tin, 
but  flexibly  flat — it  is  just  right 
for  delivering  in  folders.  Though 
a  new  i)roduct  it  is  by  no  means 
an  experiment,  for  chemically  it 
is  simply  the  coating  of  our  well 
tried  and  thoroughly  relialile 
Royal  Nepera  emulsion  on  a  pure 
white  stock  which  is  similar  in 
all,  save  color,  to  the  India-tint 
Royal  stock. 

Rojal  Nepera  Pure  White 
may  now  be  had  of  photograi)hic 
stock  dealers  everywhere.  In 
ordering  be  sure,  however,  to 
specify  "Pure  White,"  otherwise 
there  is  a  likelihood  that  you  will 
be  fiu-nished  the  India-tint.  Pro- 
fessional sizes  onlj',  and  at  the 
same  price  as  Nepera  single 
weight  papers. 

Royal  Nepera  Pure  White 
marks  the  greatest  advance  that 
has  been  made  in  developing 
papers  in  a  decade.  It  combines 
in  a  degree  not  found  in  any 
other  paper  the  physical  qualities 
that  make  it  a  pleasure  to  handle 
and  the  chemical  qualities  that 
make  it — for  both  the  photogra- 
phers and  the  customer — a  pleas- 
ui-e  to  deliver. 


$1400  in  cash  prizes  for  the 
professional  in  the  1909  Kodak 
Advertising  Contest. 


r^OIl    CONVENIENCE 

Did  you  ever  hurry  into 
your  dark-room,  or  some  other 
l)ortion  of  your  studio,  and  — 
crash  down  goes  a  rack  full  of 
negatives?  Mighty  cai-eless  to 
leave  'em  there,  but  it  is  such 
a  hard  thing  to  find  a  good  place 
to  dry  negatives.  Usually  the 
best  place  to  dry  them  is  just 
the  place  some  one  will  run 
against  or  fall  over  them.  In 
our  own  model  studio  we  feel 
that  this  is  one  of  the  problems 
we  have  satisfactorily  solved. 
As  shown  in  the  accompanying 
diagram  the  negative  dryer  is  a 
part  of  the  loading  bench,  the 
negatives  being  racked  on  a  slat- 
ted shelf  underneath  the  bench, 
and  i^rotected  bj"  a  slatted  door, 
entirely  out  of  the  way  of  any 
one  working  within  the  room. 
The  hinged  door  inay  be  let 
down  and  supported  by  a  stop, 
as  shown  in  the  drawing,  foi-m- 
ing  a  shelf  when  placing  the 
negatives  in  the  dryer  or  with- 
drawing them  for  examination. 
At  one  end  of  the  shelf  is  placed 
an  electric  fan  for  creating  a 
current  of  air.  The  fan  is  wired 
in  connection  with  an  incandes- 
cent bulb,  which  may  be  turned 
on  whenever  necessary  to  reduce 
the  speed  of  the  fan.  Fastened 
to  the  wall  over  the  loading 
bench  is  a  convenient  cupboard 
for  the  storage  of  plates  or  extra 
holders .  The  ruby  light  for  use  in 
loading  plates  is  shielded  by  an 


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opaque  revolving  reflector,  which 
may  be  turned  so  as  to  allow  the 
light  to  shine  in  anj'  direction. 


where  you  want  it  and  acting  as 
an  insurance  against  the  "just 
borrowing  it  for  a  minute"  habit. 


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Another  simple  and  conven-  This  changing  table  and  neg- 
ient  feature  is  the  cord  and  ative  dryer  can  be  easily  con- 
brass  pipe  counter-weighty  for  structed  by  any  carpenter  with 
suspending  the   dust   bi'ush  just  the  diagram  to  aid  him. 


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A 


N    ANNOYANCE 
A  V  O  I  D  E  R 


Practically  every  photographer 
finds  more  or  less  use  for  a  view 
camera.  For  the  commercial  and 
view  man  this  type  of  instrmnent 
is  indispensalile  and  the  regular 
studio  man  frequently  finds  use 
for  it.  There  are  view  cameras 
and  view  cameras,  many  of  them 
have  shortcomings  that  evidence 
themselves  just  when  you  least 
expect  them  or  when  they  are 
most  distressingly  annoying. 

Working  in  a  hurry,  we  all 
know  how  cantankerous  that  long 
threaded  screw  that  locks  the 
extension  lied  to  the  camera  body 
can  be,  and  how  wobbly  some  of 
the  view  boxes  are,  especially 
when  we  are  using  extremely 
short  focus  lenses.  Most  of  us 
have  experienced  the  delightful 
sensation  incident  upon  discover- 
ing that  part  of  our  negative  has 
been  cut  oif  because  Ave  forgot  to 
loop  up  the  bellows.  Then  again, 
through  some  misfortune  Ave  hap- 
pened to  insert  our  plate  holder 
slide  corner  wise,  making  room 
for  a  ray  of  light  that  squirts  fog 
clear  across  the  plate. 

All  of  us  have  been  hoping  for 
a  \ieAv  box  that  Avouid  avoid  all 
these  distressing  httle  annoj'an- 
ces,  that  Avould  in  addition  be 
light,  strong,  compact  and  hand- 
some in  appearance — and  at  last 
we  have  it,  a  good  deal  nearer 
the  ideal  view  camera  than  we 
ever  expected  to  find. 


It's  called  the  Empire  State 
No.  2,  has  double  SAA'ing,  rising 
and  falling  front  actuated  by  rack 
and  ])inion,  front  and  back  focus, 
reversible  back,  strap  handle  and 
comes  AA'ith  case  and  plate  holder. 

Yes,  youA'e  seen  cameras  be- 
fore Avith  these  features,  but  note 
these  important  advantages. 

Sliding  tripod  block — This  is  a 
heavy  block  Avhich  clamps  rigidly 
at  any  point  of  the  front  exten- 
sion so  that  the  box  may  be  sup- 
ported directly  above  the  tripod 
Avhen  short  focus  lenses  are  used. 

Automatic  bellows  support — You 
can't  forget  to  hook  up  the  bel- 
loAvs,  for  this  simple  device  auto- 
matically keeps  the  bellows  up  in 
place  at  all  times.  Requires  no 
attention.  Folds  automatically 
Avhen  camera  is  closed. 

Neiu  light  protector — This  is  a 
supplementary  hght  trap  made 
into  the  camera  back,  so  that 
leakage  is  impossible  e\' en  if  the 
plate  holder  trap  were  defective. 
No  need  to  throAV  the  cloth  over 
the  camera  back  Avhen  Avithdraw- 
ing  the  slide. 

New  extension  clamp — The  old 
fashioned  long  threaded  screw 
has  been  replaced  in  this  model 
by  a  special  clamp  Avhich  is 
merely  pushed  in  and  given  a 
quarter  turn  to  hold  each  exten- 
sion absolutely  rigid. 

Ease  of  operation — All  operat- 
ing nuts  are  located  on  the  right 
hand  side.  Clamping  nuts  on  the 
left.  No  confusion  in  operating 
and    clamping.       No    chance    of 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 

By  n.  E.  Gray  Houston,  Texas 


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STUDIO  LIGHT  a>id 


tightening  an  adjustment  while 
trj'ing  to  manipulate  it. 

Complete  descrii)tion  of  this 
camera  can  be  had  from  the 
Rochester  Optical  Division. 
These  are  the  prices : 
5  X  7,  833.00  Draw  22  inches 
617X81 2,     25.00  "       2T     " 

8   "  X  10,       28.00  "       30     " 


npHE   SHOW    CASE 

■*•  The  introductory  chapter 
in  "The  Art  of  Decorating"  has 
this  to  say: 

"The  show  window  displaj-  is 
an  acknowledged  attribute  of 
trade  winning.  It  is  the  mer- 
chant's closest  connecting  link 
with  the  public.  Many  a  retail 
business  stands  or  falls  accord- 
ingly as  the  show  window  at- 
tracts or  repels  customers;  for, 
by  the  show  uindotcs  the  public 
will  judge  the  store.  The  su- 
preme test  of  merit  in  a  show 
window  is  that  it  will  advertise 
and  sell  goods.  The  general 
public  is  composed  entirely  of 
possible  customers,  but  only  the 
pleased  element  thereof  may  be 
considered  as  probable  cus- 
tomers." 

If  the  public  conceives  a  fa- 
voral^le  impression  of  youi-  stu- 
dio by  a  passing  glance  at  your 
shoAv  case  thej'  Ijecome  probable 
customers  because  they  have 
been  brought  to  a  condition  of 
mind  which  must  always  precede 
a  purchase. 


Granted  then,  that  the  show 
case  is  a  most  important  factor 
in  the  securing  of  business,  do 
we  make  the  most  of  it.''  Why, 
of  course,  our  show  case  is  al- 
ways filled  ■vWth  pictures  from 
our  best  negatives  —  but,  wait  a 
minute,  how  long  have  those 
same  pictures  been  in  that  case? 

Things  that  present  the  same 
front  to  us  every  day  soon  lose 
their  identity  and  we  pass  them 
by  with  no  more  attention  than 
we  pay  to  the  flagstones  in  the 
pavement.  The  old  town  pump 
might  stand  on  the  corner  in  its 
dingy  grayness  for  months  and 
you  would  never  notice  it,  but 
some  night  let  some  one  pahit  it 
red,  and  the  next  morning  you 
and  every  one  else  would  notice 
it,  and  then  if  next  week  it 
should  he  painted  green,  and  a 
few  nights  later  decorated  with 
stripes,  you  would  look  for  that 
pump  every  time  you  went  by, 
to  see  what  had  been  done  to  it. 

This  comparison  with  your 
show  case  may  be  a  bit  over- 
draAvn,  but  it  apjilies  neverthe- 
less, because  if  you  do  not  edu- 
cate your  public  to  look  for  new 
and  interesting  things  in  your 
show  case,  they  soon  pass  it  by 
A\ithout  even  a  glance,  and  it 
becomes  a  positive  detriment  to 
your  business. 

Now  let  us  go  about  on  the 
other  tack  for  a  moment.  You 
are  a  live  wire  and  change  your 
show  case  frequently — and  so 
does  your  competitor,  so  in  or- 


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der  to  attract  the  attention  that 
will  pull  in  the  dollars  we  must 
do  a  few  extra  stunts.  Suppose 
we  try  a  few  special  displays. 
One  for  instance,  of  the  seven 
ages  of  man,  using  the  picture 
of  a  baby  in  his  nurse's  arms, 
then  one  of  a  child  of  three, 
then  of  a  school  boy,  another  of 
a  young  man  of  about  twenty- 
one,  then  one  of  a  man  about 
thirty-five,  and  complete  the 
series  with  the  portrait  of  some 
fine  looking  old  i)atriarch  with 
snowy  hair  and  beard.  A  neat 
httle  card  with  an  appropriate 
quotation  will  strengthen  this 
display.  Next  week  let  us  try 
a  show  case  full  of  young  girls, 
all  as  attractive  as  possible,  with 
a  little  card  "Sweet  Sixteen." 
Another  week,  give  the  young 
men  a  chance,  fill  your  case  with 
the  chaps  just  turning  twenty- 
one  with  a  little  card  "First 
Voters"  or  something  similar. 
For  a  June  or  October  display, 
a  collection  of  brides.  Devote  a 
week  to  prominent  citizens,  an- 
other week  to  society  ladies,  a 
week  to  the  grandmothers,  and 
with  each  display  make  use  of  the 
little  card  calling  attention  to  the 
particular  dis])lay.  All  this  means 
work  and  thought,  but  if  persist- 
ently carried  out  each  week  you 
will  have  your  public  looking  for 
and  at  your  show  case  every  time 
they  pass,  and  when  they  want 
pictures,  they  will  come  to  you 
involuntarily.  Make  your  show 
case  pay  dividends. 


o 


UR    ILLUSTRATIOxNS 


We  are  pleased  to  afford 
in  this  issue  some  examples  of 
the  excellent  work  from  the  stu- 
dio of  Mr.  H.  E.  Gray,  of  Hous- 
ton, Texas. 

Mr.  Gray  is  one  of  the  lead- 
ing j)hot()graphers  of  the  south- 
west, and  presides  over  a  hand- 
some and  well  appointed  studio. 

Mr.  Gray  attributes  much  of 
his  success  to  the  continued  use 
of  good  old  Aristo. 


s 


IMPLE  AND   CON- 
VINCING 

"Whj-,  they  are  the  simplest 
sort  of  {pictures— the  kind  that 
one  could  find  most  any  place." 

Such  has  been  the  thought  of 
every  one  who  has  examined  the 
pages  of  the  Portfolio  of  the 
I9O8  Kodak  Advertising  Compe- 
tition and  studied  the  prize  win- 
ning jiictures. 

Why,  there  is  Katherine  Jones 
or  Marj'  Kidder  everj'  bit  as  at- 
tractive as  the  prize  winner  girls, 
and  why  didn't  I  think  of  old 
Doctor  Thompson  and  his  two 
grand-children,  and  there's 
Charlie  Smart's  wife  M'ith  her 
pretty  little  three-year-old, — I 
could  have  made  a  picture  like 
that  one  of  Mrs.  Pearce's  just  as 
easy.  And  there's  that  little  place 
down  by  the  brook — just  around 
the  bend  from  the  swimming 
hole — about  the  prettiest  little 


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STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


place  you  ever  saw ;  why,  I  could 
have  taken  my  youngsters  down 
there  and  made  something  great. 
There's  those  two  girls  develop- 
ing film  in  the  kitchen,  and  the 
two  standing  by  the  dark  room 
door,  Jennie  and  Ethel  could 
have  posed  fine  for  that.  And  I 
wouldn't  have  had  to  do  any 
special  fixing  up  either — just  the 
simple,  natural  suiToundings. 

That  is  the  whole  story,  just 
simple,  natural  human  beings,  in 
natural  and  logical  sourround- 
ings — if  the}'  possess  more  than 
the  average  of  good  looks,  so 
much  the  better,  but  not  abso- 
lutely necessarj". 

All  you  have  to  do  to  stand  a 
good  chance  of  being  listed  Avith 
the  winners  in  the  1909  Kodak 
Advertising  contest  is  to  take 
your  simple,  natural  humans,  in 
simple  natural  sourroundings,  and 
make  your  jjicture  tell  some  sim- 
ple story  that  will  create  a  desire 
for  a  Kodak  or  an  interest  in  the 
Kodak  way  of  picture  makmg. 

As  a  help,  study  the  pictures 
used  for  advertising  in  the  gen- 
eral magazines  and  note  how 
simj^ly  they  tell  their  story. 

You  still  have  plenty  of  time, 
but  not  any  too  much,  so  begin 
planning  and  making  your  prize 
Avinning  prints  now.  If  you 
haven't  seen  one,  a  postal  card 
addressed  to  our  advertising  de- 
partment will  bring  you  a  copy  of 
the  portfolio  of  successful  pictures 
in  our  19O8  Kodak  Advertising 
Contest. 


rpHERMIC 

-*-  Most  of  us  are  not  greatly 
troubled  by  climatic  conditions 
during  the  heated  tenn,  and  can, 
without  much  difficult}^,  dispose 
of  such  hot  weather  troubles  as 
arise. 

In  some  localities,  however, 
the  heated  tenn  brings  photo- 
graphic troubles  galore,  particu- 
larl}^  in  the  development  part  of 
the  work. 

Trj-  as  Ave  will,  it  is  almost 
impossible  to  maintain  the  nor- 
mal degree  of  temperature  dur- 
ing development,  and  frilling 
and  similar  trouV)les  make  life  a 
burden. 

The  neAv  Standard  Thermic 
Plate  meets  perfectly  any  reason- 
able demand  of  the  photographer 
laboring  under  the  disadvantages 
of  humidity  and  high  tempera- 
ture. The  Standard  Thermic  is 
physically  and  chemically  harder 
than  the  other  brands  of  Stand- 
ard plates.  The  emulsion  is 
harder,  perhaps  tougher  is  a  bet- 
ter Avord,  and  Avill  stand  a  higher 
temperature  without  frilling. 
Standard  Thermic  has  also  the 
speed  and  latitude  and,  another 
strong  point,  requires  no  special 
manii)ulation  or  modification  of 
developer. 

Standard  Thermic  is  a  good 
plate  anyAvhere,  but  its  qualities 
Avill  be  most  highly  appreciated 
in  latitudes  AA-here  a  tough  emul- 
sion is  required  to  Avithstand  high 
temperature. 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATIXO  PRINT 
By  H.  E.  Gray  Houston,  Texas 


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STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


WITHOUT  COST 
About  this  time  of  the 
year  we  commence  to  read  arti- 
cles on  Development  troubles' ' 
and  Dark  room  difficulties," 
and  are  told  how  to  maintain  an 
even  temperature,  how  to  avoid 
frilling  and  fog  in  half  a  hundred 
different  ways;  how  to  test  our 
own  dark  room  lamps,  how  to 
remain  happy  though  suffocated, 
and  how  to  more  or  less  satis- 
factorily dodge  the  troubles  and 
inconveniences  incident  to  pro- 
longed incarceration  in  the  dark 
room. 

It  is  to  laugh. 

The  sovereign  remedy  is  so 
simple — Tank  Development. 

A  year  or  so  ago  some  ques- 
tion might  have  been  raised  as 
to  the  quality  of  negative  pro- 
duced by  this  method,  but  to- 
day the  thousands  of  tanks  in 
constant  and  successful  use  in 
studios  the  world  over  have 
demonstrated  the  superiority  of 
this  method  over  the  tentative 
dark  room  way. 

Comfort,  convenience  and  re- 
sults. These  three  points  score 
in  favor  of  the  tank.  The  re- 
maining point  is  that  of  econ- 
omj";  we  have  the  dark  room 
with  its  necessary  equipment  of 
trays,  lamps,  etc.,  so  why  should 
we  spend  money  for  the  tank 
when  w  e  can  produce  good 
enough  results  without  it? 

An  eight  by  ten  Eastman 
Plate    Tank    costs    ten     dollars. 


Now  how  long  have  we  got  to 
use  it  to  get  our  money  back, 
and  enjoy  its  admitted  good 
features  without  cost  to  us?  We 
can,  if  we  are  expert,  and  will- 
ing to  take  some  chances,  de- 
velop eight  five  by  sevens  at  one 
time,  while  the  tank  Mill  accom- 
modate twenty-four.  The  tank 
will  develop  the  twenty-four 
plates  perfectly  in  thirty  min- 
utes, and  will  demand  our  per- 
sonal attention,  not  to  exceed 
ten  minutes,  leaving  twenty  min- 
utes to  devote  to  other  things 
outside  of  the  dark  room.  To  de- 
velop twenty-four  five  by  seven 
plates  by  the  regulation  dark 
room  method  will  require  about 
four  times  ten  minutes  and  de- 
mand personal  attention  every 
one  of  those  minutes.  Any  way 
we  estimate  it,  the  tank  will  save 
one-half  or  more  of  the  time 
spent  for  development  and  at 
that  rate  it  will  not  require  many 
weeks  use  of  the  tank  to  pay  for 
it,  after  which  all  the  economy, 
comfort  and  convenience  of  the 
tank  are  ours  tvithout  cost. 

There  is  no  argument  against 
the  tank. 


Have  you  the  Canadian  Card 
Co.'s  1909  catalogue?  If  not, 
write  for  it  to-day,  it's  full  of 
live  suggestions  for  making 
money . 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATING  PRINT 
By  H.  E.  Gray  Houston,  Texas 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  aiid 


I 


NSURANCE 


"It  isn't  what  you  spend, 
but  what  you  get  for  what  you 
spend." — Yes,  this  is  another 
"tested  chemical"  stoiy  —  and  if 
you  are  not  interested  in  busi- 
ness insurance  skip  and  turn 
over.  We  have  spent  thousands 
of  dollars  in  the  procuring  of 
chemicals  and  in  the  compound- 
ing of  chemical  preparations 
that  we  know   are  right. 

We  ought  to? — granted  — 
and  more,   we  had  to. 

It  is  of  the  utmost  importance 
to  us  that  our  sensitive  products 
receive  the  best  possible  treat- 
ment, so  that  they  may,  in  your 
hands,  yield  the  best  possible 
results.  The  highest  grade 
cheinicals  cost  us  more  money 
than  the  ordinary  grocery  store 
variety  and  they  are  worth  it  to 
us  and  to  you.  It  is  worth  the 
extra  cost  to  us  to  know  that  we 
are  putting  into  your  hands  the 
best  possible  chemicals  Mith 
Avhich  to  work  our  products  and 
it  is  worth  the  small  increase  in 
price  to  you,  many  times  over, 
to  know  that  you  are  backing  up 
the  brains  and  skill  of  your- 
self and  your  workmen  with 
the  best  the  market  affords,  and 
that  when  you  have  produced 
an  unusually  beautiful  effect  in 
lighting  and  posing,  that  you  are 
not  handicapping  the  final  result 
by  the  use  of  indifferent  ma- 
terials anywhere  in  its  produc- 
tion. 


The  best  is  always   worth   its 
cost. 


On  the  package  is  your  insur- 
ance policy  at  a  low  premium 
rate. 


r^IXING    UP 

"*■  There  is  a  certain  big 
railroad  system  that  has  been 
made  the  butt  of  a  good  many 
jokes.  One  of  the  stories  they 
tell  is  this:  A  local  accommo- 
dation slowed  down,  jerked 
along  a  Httle  ways  and  came  to 
a  dead  stop.  The  fireman 
crawled  over  the  tender,  walked 
through  the  luggage  compart- 
ment of  the  combination  car  into 
the  smoker  and  inquired,  "Any 
you  fellers  got  a  piece  of  string 
—  the  engineer  Avants  to  fix  the 
engine?" 

We  all  like  to  hang  on  to  the 
things  that  have  sei'ved  us  well, 
even  when  they  are  past  practi- 
cal usefulness  and  require  bol- 
stering up  with  a  piece  of  string 
or  other  make-shift  repair,  to 
l)erform  their  functions.  In  get- 
ting ready  for  the  spring  busy 
time  we  usually  find  something 
out  of  kilter,  and,  if  we  are 
wise,  forestall  any  break-downs 
when  delays  cost  money. 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 
By  H.  E.  Gray  Houston,  Texas 


22 


STUDIO   LIGHT  a7id 


That  studio  stand  has  been 
acting  a  bit  ci'anky  and  wobbly 
of  late.  Supposing  it  should 
stick  just  when  we  were  posing 
Mrs.  Bank  President  or  that 
large  group. 

That  neAV  Semi-Centennial 
Stand  of  the  Century  Division 
conies  as  near  being  complete  as 
anj'thing  we  know  of,  and  they 
have  a  number  of  other  styles, 
some  at  a  very  low  figure,  and 
all  Century  quality. 

A  ncAV  shutter  may  be  need- 
ed. The  Auto  Studio  Shutter 
has  a  lot  of  good  points  to  rec- 
ommend it.  You  can  use  it  with  a 
number  of  different  lenses,  and  it 
is  really,  truly,  a  noiseless  shutter. 

That  old  goods  box,  with  the 
bottom  set  in  on  a  slant  has  just 
about  seen  its  best  days  as  a  re- 
touching stand.  The  New  Cen- 
tury Retouching  Stand  is  not 
onlj^  mighty  convenient,  but 
looks  well  and  don't  cost  much. 

And  the  printer  says  the  print- 
ing frames  are  some  of  '  era  pret- 
ty badly  warped;  and  —  well, 
say,  why  don't  you  write  and 
ask  the  Century  Division  for  a 
copy  of  their  catalogue?  That 
will  show  you  just  what  you  do 
need,  and  your  dealer  can  have 
it  for  you  in  a  jiffy. 


A 


H  I  T 


In  our  April  issue  ap- 
peared the  first  of  the  drawings 
we  have  had  prepared  to  assist 
the  professional  in  advertising 
his  work  in  an  attractive  and  up- 
to-date  manner.  AVe  assumed  the 
profession  would  gladh"  embrace 
the  opportunity,  and  thej'  have. 
The  orders  for  electros  are  com- 
ing in  steadily,  and  we  know  if 
they  are  judicioush"  used  that 
they  will  bring  results. 

On  page  23  Avill  be  found  the 
drawing  and  sample  advertise- 
ment for  this  month. 

You  will  agree  with  us,  we 
feel  sure,  that  the  drawing  and 
copy  are  timely  and  attractive, 
and  we  hope  you  will  follow  up 
your  first  efforts  with  this  copy 
and  reap  a  goodly  harvest  in  the 
month  of  brides.  The  electro 
Avill  be  furnished  for  fifty  cents 
postpaid.  Please  order  by  num- 
ber and  remit  in  stam]is.  Do  not 
overlook  the  fact  that  we  cannot 
furnish  this  electro  to  more  than 
one  photograi)her  in  the  same 
town,  and  that  it  will  be  first 
come,  first  served. 

Good  advertising  of  good 
goods,  and  good  service  must 
bring  success. 


TT'EEr   POSTED  on  the  Eastnmn  School 
-^^^^    of  Professional    Photography    dates 
Bulletin  on  page  24. 


see 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


23 


THE  ONLY  CON- 
DITION 

We  make  but  one  condi- 
tion in  our  offer  of  cuts  for 
the  use  of  photographers. 

It  is  obvious  that  two 
photographers  in  the  same 
town  would  not  care  to  use 
the  same  cut,  and  we  are 
therefore  obliged  to  limit 
this  offer  to  one  photogra- 
pher in  a  town.  It  Avill  be 
a  case  of  first  come  first 
served.  The  first  order 
from  a  city  will  be  promptly 
filled.  Succeeding  orders  (if 
any)  will  necessarily  be 
turned  down  and  the  re- 
mittance, of  course,  will  be 
returned.  It  is  also  obvious 
that  we  cannot,  on  account 
of  the  cost  of  the  drawings, 
furnish  any  large  variety  of 
cuts  at  the  nominal  prices 
quoted,  and  therefore  can 
offer  no  substitute  cut.  The 
thing  to  do  is  to  get  your 
order  in  first,  as  it  would  not 
be  fair  to  give  the  man  Avho 
happens  to  get  in  his  order 
early  one  month,  a  pennanent 
advantage ;  Ave  shall  book  no 
orders  in  advance.  They 
must  always  specify  the  num- 
ber of  cut  desired.  If  later 
on  it  develops  that  there  is 
a  great  enough  demand  for 
these  advertising  cuts  to  war- 
rant our  furnishing  a  larger 
variety,  we  shall  be  glad  to 

do  so.  „  - 

L.  K.  Co.,  Ltd. 


Don't  forget  to  be 
photographed  imme- 
diately after  this  in- 
teresting occasion. 

And  don't  forget  to 
have  the  photographs 
taken  by 

The 

Pyro 

Studio 


No.  ijl 


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U  L  L  E  T  I  N  :   THE  EASTMAN  SCHOOL  OF 
PROFESSIONAL  PHOTOGRAPHY  FOR  1909 


Illinois  Convention,  Springfield,  111.,  May  4,  5,  6,  7. 

Auspices  W.  F.  Uhlman,  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  May  11,  12,  13. 

Auspices  Charles  Lawrence, Wichita,  Kansas,  May  18,  19,  20. 

Auspices  C.  Weichsel  Co.,  Dallas,  Texas,  Maj'  25,  26,  27. 

Auspices  F.  J.  Feldman,  El  Paso,  Texas,  June  1,  2,  3. 

Auspices  Rowland  &  Dewey  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal..  June  8,  9,  10. 

Auspices  Hirsch  &  Kaiser,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  June  15,  l6,  17. 

Auspices    Portland   Photo  Supply  Co.,    Portland,  Oregon,  June 
22,  23,  24. 

Auspices  Tacoma  Dental  &  Photo  Supplj'  Co.,  Tacoma,  Wash., 
June  29,  30,  July  1. 

Auspices  John  W.  Graham  &  Co.,  Spokane,  Wash.,  July  7,  8,  9- 

Auspices  Robt.  Dempster  Co.,  Omaha,  Neb.,  July  15,  l6,  17- 

Auspices   Memphis    Photo   Supply    Co.,    Memphis,    Tenn.,  July 
20,  21,  22. 

Auspices  Des  Moines  Photo  Materials  Co.,  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
July  27,  28,  29. 


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25 


Commer- 
cial 

Aristo 
Platino 


ROLLS 

10  ft.  Roll  241  2 
ins.  wide.  .§1,95 

5  yd.  Roll  241 2 
ins.  wide.  ..§2.80 

10  yd.  Roll  24^2 
ins.  wide.  .-So. 15 

(Furnished  only 
in  24^2  inch 
widths.) 


Canadian 
Kodak 

Co.,  Limited 
Toronto,  Can. 


Per             Per 

Per 

Per 

Size              !jDoz.       Doz. 

3 2  Gross 

Gross 

2I4X2I4 

$  .15 

$  .60 

$1.05 

2i,x2i, 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

2I4X3I4 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

214x31, 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

2I4X334 

.15 

.()0 

1.05 

2i,x4i4 

.15 

.60 

1.10 

3  "x4 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

31  ,  X  31 ', 

.15 

.70 

1.30 

3I4X4I4 

.15 

.70 

1.30 

31,  X  4 

.15 

.70 

1.30 

2I4X7 

.18 

.75 

4     x4 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

414x414 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

3I4X6 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

3' 4x5}', 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

4x5" 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

3''s  X  dV-? 

.25 

.95 

1.75 

8'sx57i 

.30 

1.10 

1.95 

414X51/2 

.30 

1.10 

1.95 

4      x6 

.25 

.95 

1.75 

4I4X6I', 

.30 

1.30 

2.25 

434x61 2 

.30 

1.50 

2.60 

4x9 

.35 

1.75 

2.85 

5      x7 

.35 

1.70 

2.75 

5      x  71 ', 

.35 

1.80 

3.00 

5x8 

.35 

1.80 

3.15 

51^x734 

.40 

1.95 

3.45 

3i,xl2 

.35 

1.90 

6      x8 

.45 

2.30 

4.10 

6i,x8i2 

.50 

2.50 

4.40 

7  'x9 

.55 

2.85 

5.15 

71  2x91-2 

.60 

3.20 

6.00 

8      xlO 

.65 

3.60 

6.70 

9      xll 

8.70 

10    xl2 

'.            .95 

5.40 

10.30 

11    xl4         $ 

65       1.25 

7.20 

13.45 

12    xl5 

80        1.40 

8.50 

16.00 

14    xl7           1 

00       1.90 

10.80 

20.65 

16    x20           1 

30       2.50 

14.80 

27.90 

17    x20           1 

.40       2.75 

15.45 

29.95 

18    x22           1 

65       3.15 

18.00 

35.15 

20    x24           1 

.95       3.60 

21.15 

41.30 

26  STUDIO  LIGHT  «Hrf 

The  best  of  everything 
for  use  in  the  Studio 


A  complete  line  of 

Canadian  Kodak  Co. 's 
Plates,  Papers  and 
Tested  Chemicals. 

Canadian  Card  Co.'s 
Mounts 

Century  Studio  Ap- 
paratus. 


The  D.  H.  Hogg  Company 

MONTREAL,  CANADA 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


27 


Demand  a  certifi- 
cate of  character 
from  your  chemical 
assistants : 


28 


STUDIO    LIGHT    and 


A  NEW  NEPERA— 

Royal 
Pure  White 


All  the  breadth  and  softness  of  India-tint  Royal 
Nepera  with  the  added  sparkle  that  the  pure  white 
stock  gives  to  the  high  lights. 

When  sepia  toned  by  re-development  it  possesses 
a  richness  of  color  not  to  be  found  in  an}'  other  de- 
veloping paper — and  the  prints  lie  flat. 


CANADIAN  KODAK  CO. 

Limited 

Toronto,  Can, 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE  29 

Nepera 

Waxing  Solution 

Helps  detail  and  adds  lustre 
to  Sepia  prints 


Especially  effective  on  Sepia 
toned  lloyal  Nepera  and  Royal 
Velox  prints. 

Apply  evenly  with  Canton 
Flannel,  and  rub  into  the 
surface. 


Price,  per  bottle,  Tiventy  Cents 
All  Dealers 


Canadian  Kodak  Co,,  Lttd, 

Toronto,  C(i)in(l(i 


30 


STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


You  can  spend 
more  of  your 
time  outside  tliis 
door  when  you 
use  the 


EASTMAN 

PLATE 
TANK 


Less  Trouble, 
]More  Comfort, 
Better  Results. 


EASTMAN  PLATE  TANKS. 

5x7  .  .  .  .  %  l.SO 


Canadian    Kodak    Co., 

Ltd. 
Toronto,  Canada 

All  Dealers. 


ihe  ARISTO  EAGLE  81 

Canadian  Made  for  the 
Canadian  Professional 


Seed,  Royal  and  Stanley 
Plates 

Canadian  Card  Co.'s 
Mounts 

Canadian  Kodak  Co.'s 
Tested  Chemicals 

Canadian  Made  Papers 


J.  G.  Ramsey  ^  Co.,  limited 

Toronto,  Canada 


32 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


A  POINTER 

Be  sure  and  see  samples  of  these  styles 
They  are   the  best  value   ever  offered 


The  Empress,  Jf'^eUcslcy  and  ,„.,^^  Dupont  Styles 


W 


'E  can  conscientiously  say  that  these  stjles  are  the  best  value  ever  offered. 
They  are  made  of  medium  heavyweitrlit  stock,  matched  edircs,  witli  a 
neat  corded  silk  finish.  EmljellislH-d  with  l)eautiful  two  lined  design  with  orna- 
mental corners,  brought  up  in  rich  shades  to  matcli  the  border.  They  are  very 
attractive  in  appearance  and  will  prove  popular  sellers. 

Sample  of  one  size  free. 

Tliey  are  made  in  three  colors,  named  as  follows:  Tlie  Empress,  made  in 
Artists  Brown;   the  Dupont,  in  Ash  Grey;  and  the  Wellesley,  in  Cream  White. 


Size 
CX 
FX 


For  Photo 

Cabinet  Oval 

Cabinet  Square 


Size  Outside 
6x9 
6x9 


Price  per  100 
$  2.50 
2.50 


DESIGSED   AND    MANUFACTURED   BY 


The  Canadian  Card  Co. 


TORONTO 
CANADA 


Aristo  Motto 


'T  ^  fE  believe  permanency  is  the 
'  •  Keiistone  of  Photographir: 
Success,  and  all  brands  of  paper 
bearing  our  Trade-mark  are  manu- 
factured on  this  principle.  We  hold 
our  consumer's  reputation  and  suc- 
cess identical  with  our  own.  We 
surrovmd  both  with  every  safe- 
guard known  to  chemical  science 
and  our  own  experience." 


FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 
By  Filson  d'  l^on  Sleitbenville,  Ohio 


T7     T7 


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A  Magazine   of   Information    for   the   Profession 


NEW    SERIES 
Vol  .  1       Nl).   t 


J  I'  N  E   1909 


OLD    S  E  R  I  ES 

No.    101 


REDUCED  RAILROAD 
RATES  TO    ROCH- 
ESTER   CONVENTION 

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y. 
JULY  19  TO  .'4,  1909 

Do  not  fail  to  as  It-  fur  certificate 
when  purchasijig  ticket  to  lioch- 
ester  which  entitles  you  to  three- 
Jiftlis  fare  returning. 

Cei'tificates  are  issued  at  the 
time  the  going  ticket  is  pur- 
chased and  may  be  secured  from 
Julyl5th.to21st. inclusive.  Make 
inquiry  of  your  local  ticket  agent 
to  ascertain  if  he  is  supplied  with 
certificates,  if  he  is  not,  he  will 
advise  you  of  the  nearest  point 
where  they  can  be  secured. 

Present  yourself  at  the  ticket 
office  at  least  one-half  hour  early 
that  you  may  not  be  detained 
from  procuring  your  certificate 
before  the  departure  of  the  train. 

IMMEDIATELY  upon  your 
arrival  at  the  convention  hall  de- 
posit your  certificate  with  L.  A. 
Dozer,  Treas.,  at  the  box  office. 
The  special  agent  of  the  railroad 
associations  will  be  at  the  con- 
vention hall  to  validate  certifi- 
cates from  9  A.  M.  to  6  p.  M.  of 
July  22d.,   23d.   and   24th.      A 


charge  of  twenty-five  cents  will 
be  made  for  validating  each 
certificate.  If  you  arrive  at  the 
convention  later  than  July  24th. 
the  validating  agent  will  have  left 
and  you  will  therefore  be  unable 
to  get  the  benefit  of  the  reduced 
fare  home. 

To  secure  your  return  passage 
home,  present  your  validated 
certificate  at  the  railroad  office 
and  the  agent  will  supply  you 
Avith  j'our  return  trip  ticket  upon 
payment  of  three-fiths  of  the 
amount  of  the  fare  paid  for  going 
ticket. 

Return  trip  tickets  may  be 
purchased  with  certificates  at  re- 
duced rates  from  July  22nd.  to 
midnight  of  July  28th. 

The  following  railroad  associa- 
tions have  allowed  the  reduced 
railroad  rates : 

The  Trunk  Line  Association 
comprises  the  following  states, 
New  York,  Pennsylvania,  West 
^'irginia,  New  Jersey  and  Dela- 
ware, with  the  following  rail- 
roads offering  reduced  fares : 

Baltimore  &  Ohio,  Buffalo  & 
Susquehanna,  Buffalo,  Rochester  & 
Pittsburgh,  Central  of  New  Jersey, 
Chesapeake  &  Ohio,  Chesapeake  S. 
S.  Co., Cumberland  Valley,  Delaware 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


&  Hudson,  Erie,  Delaware,  Lacka- 
wanna &  Western,  Fonda,  Johns- 
town &  Gloversville,  Jamestown, 
Chautauqua  &  Lake  Erie,  Lehigh 
Valley,  New  York  Central  &  Hud- 
son River,  New  York,  Phila.  & 
Norfolk,  Norfolk  &  Washington  S. 
S.  Co.,  Pennsylvania,  Northern  Cen- 
tral, Philadelphia  &  Erie,  Philadel- 
phia, Baltimore  &  Washington, West 
Jersey  &  Sea  Shore,  Pittsburg, 
Shawmut  &  Northern,  Western 
Maryland,  West  Shore. 

The  New  England  Passenger 
Association,  comi)rising  the  states 
of  Maine,  New  Hampshire,  \ev- 
mont,  Massachusetts,  Connecti- 
cut, and  Rhode  Island,  with  the 
following  railroads  oifering  re- 
duced fares: 

Boston  &  Albany,  Boston  & 
Maine,  Canadian  Pacific  ( eastern 
lines).  Central  Vermont,  Grand 
Trunk,  Maine  Central,  N.  Y.,  N.  H. 
&  Hartford  ( including  sound  lines 
N.  E.  Nav.  Co.). 

Eastern  Canadian  Passenger 
Association,  comprising  the  prov- 
inces of  eastern  C'anada.with  the 
following  railroads  offering  re- 
duced fares: 

Algoma  Central  &  Hudson  Bay, 
Bay  of  Quinte,  Boston  &  Maine, 
Brockville,  Westport  &  Northwest- 
ern, Canadian  Northern  Ontario, 
Canadian  Northern  Quebec,  Cana- 
dian Pacific  (eastern  lines).  Central 
Ontario,  Central  Vermont,  Domin- 
ion Atlantic,  Grand  Trunk,  Inter- 
colonial R.  R.,  Irondale,  Bancroft 
&  Ottawa,  Kingston  &  Pembroke, 
Michigan  Central,  N.  Y.  Central  & 
Hudson  R.  R.,  Orford  Mountain, 
Ottawa  &  N.  Y.,  Pere  Marquette, 
Quebec  Central,  Quebec,  Montreal 
&  Southern,  Rutland  R.  R.,  Temis- 
couata  R.  R.,  Temiskaming  & 
Northern  Ontario,  Toronto,  Hamil- 
ton, &  Buffalo,  Wabash  R.  R. 


The  following  Navigation 
Companies  make  special  rates 
which  may  be  had  upon  applica- 
tion : 

Huntsville,  Lake  of  Bays  &  Lake 
Simcoe  Nav.  Co.,  Muskoka  Nav. 
Co.,  Niagara  Nav.  Co.,  Northern 
Nav.  Co.,  Ottawa  River  Nav.  Co., 
Pembroke  Nav.  Co.,  Richelieu  & 
Ontario  Nav.  Co.,  Rideau  Lakes 
Nav.  Co.,  Trent  Valley  Nav.  Co. 

Central  Passenger  Association, 
com]n-ising  the  following  states, 
Ohio,  Indiana,  Lower  Michigan, 
and  that  part  of  Illinois  south  of 
a  line  drawn  fi-om  Chicago  to 
Keokuk,  with  the  following  rail- 
roads offering  reduced  fares : 

Ann  Arbor  R.  R.,  B.  &  O.  South- 
western R.  R.,  B.  &  L.  E.  R.  R., 
Big  Four  Route,  B.  R.  &  P.  Ry., 
Chicago  &  Alton  R.  R.,  C.  &  E."  I. 
R.  R.,  C.  &  E.  &  Erie  R.  R.,  C.  I. 
&  L.  Ry.,  C.  L  &  S.  Ry.,  C.  R.  & 
M.  Line,  C.  R.  I.  &  P.  Rv.,  C.  &  M. 
V.  R.  R.,  C.  H.  &  D.  Ry.,  C.  &  B. 
Transit  Co.,  Cleveland  &  Toledo 
Line,  D.  &  B.  S.  Co.,  D.  &  C.  N. 
Co.,  D.  &  M.  Rv.,  C.  &  O.  Ry.,  D. 
T.  &  I.  Ry.,  D.  A.  V.  &  P.  Ry., 
E.  &  L  R.  R.,  E.  &  T.  H.  R.  R., 
Ft.  W.  C.  &  L.  R.  R.,  G.  R.  &  I. 
Ry.,  G.  T.  Rv-  Svstem,  Hocking 
V'alley  Ry.,  L.  E.  &  W.  R.  R.,  L. 
S.  &  M.  S.  Rv.,  L.  &  N.  R.  R.,  L. 
H.  &  St.  L.  Ry.,  M.  C.  &  C.  R.  R., 
Mich.  Central  R.  R.,  Mobile  &  O. 
R.  R.,  N.  Y.  C.  &  St.  L.  R.  R., 
Northern  O.  R.  R.,  O.  Central 
Lines,  Penna.  Lines,  Pere  Marquette 
Ry.,  P.  &  L.  E.  R.  R.,  P.  L.  &  W. 
R.  R.,  Southern  Ry.  (St.  Louis 
Div.),  T.  St.  L.  &  W.  R.  R.,  Van- 
dalia  Rv.,  Wabash  R.  R.,  Wab. 
Pitts.  Ter.  Ry.,  W.  &  L.  E.  R.  R., 
Z.  &  W.  Ry. 

The  JVestern  Passenger  Asso- 
ciation, comprising  the  following 
states,  Minnesota,  Wisconsin, 


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So.  Dakota,  Iowa,  Nebraska, 
Kansas  and  Missouri  north  from  a 
line  drawn  from  St.  Louis  to  Kan- 
sas City,  and  No.  Dakota  east  of 
Bismarck.  From  a  number  of 
points  in  these  states  tourist  rates 
may  be  secured  to  Chicago  from 
St.  Louis,  and  Chicago  certificates 
may  be  secured  for  the  SJ5  re- 
turn trip  fare.  Photographers  in 
these  states  desirous  of  attending 
the  Convention  shoukl  make  in- 
quiry regarding  these  i-ates  in 
advance.  Local  ticket  agents 
will  supply  the  information. 

Southwestern  Passengei-  Asso- 
ciation, comi)rising  the  states  of 
Texas,  Arkansas,  Oklahoma,  and 
Missouri  south  of  a  line  drawn 
from  Kansas  City  to  St.  Louis. 
This  association  instructs  to  ad- 
vise photographers  that  a  low 
summer  tourist  rate  will  be  in 
effect  to  Rochester  at  the  time 
of  our  convention.  An  earlj-  in- 
quiry of  your  local  ticket  agent 
will  give  you  definite  infomiation. 

Certificates  may  be  procured 
from  Cairo,  Ilhnois,  and  St.  Louis 
to  Rochester  on  the  basis  of  one 
fare  going  and  SJb  fare  re- 
turning. 

Southeastern  Passenger  Asso- 
ciation,  comjjrising  the  states  of 
Kentucky,  Mrginia.  Tennessee, 
North  Carolina,  South  Carolina, 
Mississippi,  Alabama,  Georgia, 
Florida.  Photographers  in  this 
territory  are  promised  no  specific 
reduced  rate  by  this  association, 
but  are  requested  to  inquire  as  to 
such  tourist  rates  as  may  be  in 


efiect  to  Rochester  at  this  time. 
Parties  living  in  this  territory 
may  secure  certificates  at  the  re- 
duced rates  from  border  line  cities 
of  Indiana,  Illinois  and  Ohio,  also 
from  Huntington,  Charlottes- 
ville, and  Charleston,  W.  Va., 
and  Washington,  D.  C. 

For  the  information  of  those 
living  in  states  not  mentioned  in 
this  list  would  advise  that  no 
reduced  rate  concessions  have 
been  secured. 

Fraternally  yours, 
F.  R.  Barrows, 

Pres.  P.  A.  of  A. 


NOT  TO  BE  READ  BY 
PHOTOGRAPHERS' 
WIVES 

That  the  Eastman  Plate  Tank 
is  a  time  saver  when  used  in  the 
ordinary  manner  has  been  many 
times  demonstrated,  but  it  has 
remained  for  a  professional  in 
Texas  to  go  a  step  farther.  At 
night,  just  before  closing  the 
studio,  he  starts  the  plates  de- 
veloping and  carries  the  tank 
home  Mith  him,  reaching  there  a 
short  time  before  the  plates  are 
due  to  come  out  of  the  devel- 
oper. These  are  fixed  and  washed 
at  home,  and  in  the  morning 
carried  back  to  the  studio,  all 
ready  for  proofing. 

This  ought  to  be  a  fine  scheme 
for  the  wives  of  those  who  find 
it  difficult  to  be  home  in  time 
for  supper. 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


THE  CENTURY  AUTO- 
MATIC  PRINTING 
MACHINE 

The  Century  Automatic  Print- 
ing Machine  is  not  the  first  de- 
vice offered  to  the  i)rofession  for 
the    printing   of   developing-out 


fk 


the  foot  levi'r.  release  and  re- 
move exposed  sheet.  With  nega- 
tives of  average  densitj^  it  is 
easilj'  possible  to  make  twenty  ex- 
posures per  minute,  as  l)oth  hands 
are  free  to  handle  the  pajjcr. 
The  l>ox  is  lined  with  sheet  steel. 


MAKING    THE    EXPOSURE 

papers,  but  it  is  easily  first  in  sim- 
plicity of  operation,  quality  of 
work  and  econoni}'. 

As  shown  in  the  accompanying 
illustrations,  the  machine  consists 
of  an  electric  light  box  sup{)orted 
on  a  stand,  with  a  simple  and 
positive  device  for  bringing  the 
negative  and  paper  into  perfect 
contact  during  the  exposure.  The 
operation  is  very  simple — place 
the  paper  on  the  negative,  press 


RELEASING  PRESSURE  TO  REMOVE 
EXPOSED  SHEET 

white  enameled,  and  provided 
with  sockets  for  six  incandescent 
electric  lamj>s,  one  for  a  ruby 
lamp  Avhen  adjusting  the  paper, 
and  the  others  to  provide  the 
exposing  light.  The  machine  is 
specially  economical  of  current, 
as  all  lights,  except  the  ruby, 
are  automatically  extinguished 
at  the  completion  of  each  ex- 
posure, and  automatically  re- 
lighted at  the  instant  the  paper 


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comes  ill  contact  with  the  nega- 
tive. Any  one  of  the  five  lights 
may  be  turned  off  at  will,  when 
exposing  negatives  of  uneven 
density.  An  extra  switch  is  pro- 
vided for  controlling  the  four 
corner  lights  for  border  printing. 
Two  grooves  underneath  the 


REAR  VIEW,  SHOWIXO  LIGHT  I'.OX 

negative  supjiorting  glass  are  pro- 
vided for  inserting  sheets  of 
ground  glass,  or  vignettes,  when 
printing  from  imperfect  negatives 
or  in  making  vignetted  prints. 
A  sliding  ])anel  in  the  fi'ont  of 
the  machine  renders  the  grooves 
easy  of  access  and  the  necessary 
changes  of  diffusing  or  vignetting 
screens  can  be  made  instantly. 
The  contact  pad  is  fitted  M'ith 
felt,  and  the  contact  roller  auto- 
matically adjusts  the  pad  to  any 
thickness  of  negative  or  paper. 
Direct  or  alternating  current  of 
110  or  220  volts  maybe  used. 


but  in  ordering  it  will  be  neces- 
ary  to  state  voltage  desired.  If 
you  are  not  sure,  ask  your  local 
electrician  as  to  voltage  in  use  in 
your  building.  The  machine  as 
furnished  is  equipjied  with  two 
side  tables,  aff"ording  a  top  sur- 
face of  1-t  X  ;^S  inches;  the  red 
electric  bulb  and  8-foot  connect- 
ing cable. 

The  Century  Automatic  Print- 
ing Machine,  in  the  eight  by  ten 
size,  will  accommodate  negatives 
8x10  and  under,  and  requires 
a  floor  space  of  but  fourteen 
inches  square.  The  machine  is 
finished  in  black  mission  style, 
and  is  a  decidedly  handsome 
equipment.  The  price  is  twenty- 
five  dollars. 

The  Century  Automatic  Print- 
ing Machine  is  the  most  satisfac- 
tory and  economical  device  on 
the  market  for  the  raj^id  pro- 
duction of  first-class  developing- 
out  i)ai)er  prints,  and  will  save 
many  times  its  cost. 


The  Eastman  Thermometer 
is  designed  especially  for  use  in 
Tank  development.  The  degree 
marks  are  easily  read,  and  the 
back  is  curved  to  fit  a  corner  of 
the  tank,  and  has  a  handy  little 
hook  to  suspend  it  by. 

Price,  50  cents,  all  dealers. 


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IMPORTANT  CONVEN- 
TION BULLETIN 

Everything  ])oints  to  a  record 
breaking  attendance  at  the  Na- 
tional Convention.  While  Roch- 
ester has  more  than  the  usual 
number  of  good  hotels,  their 
capacity  is  apt  to  be  pretty  se- 
verelj'  taxed  Convention  week, 
and  we  advise  all  those  planning 
to  attend  to  w^rite  and  secure  ac- 
commodations nouK 

We  jirint  herewith  the  list  of 
Rochester  hotels  and  their  official 
rates  for  the  National  Convention, 
July  19  to  24. 

Hotel  Sknfxa,  European  Plan. 

Official  Headquarters. 
Per  day — Room  with  running  water, 

1  person,  $1.50. 

2  persons,  $"2.50. 

Per  day  —  Room   with   shower  and 
toilet, 

1  person,  .$2.00. 

2  persons,  $3.00. 

Per  day  —  Room  with  tub  bath  and 
toilet, 

1  person,  $9.50  to  .$3.50. 

2  persons,  $3.50  to  $5.00. 

Per  day — Room  with  shower  bath 
and  toilet,  2  beds,  .$3.50  and$4.,J0. 

Per  day  —  Room  with  tub  bath  and 
toilet,  2  beds,  $5.00  and  $6.00. 

Powers  Hotel,  European  Plan : 

Nearly  all  rooms  are  equipped  with 
hot  and  cold  rimning  water,  shower 
and  tub  baths.  Rooms,  $1.50  per 
day  and  upwards.  For  each  addi- 
tional person,  $1.00  per  day  extra. 

Hotel    Rochester,    European 

Plan : 
Per  day —  1  person,  room  with  show- 
er bath,  $1.50  and  up. 


Per  day — Front  rooms  with  private 
bath,  $2.00  per  day  and  up. 

Per  day  —  Suite  of  rooms,  $5.00  per 
day  and  up. 

Three  hundred  rooms.  Every  room 
has  private  bath  and  telephone. 

Whitcomb     House,     European 
Plan: 

Per  day— 1  person,  $1.00,  $1.50  and 

$2.00. 
Per  day — 1  person,  room  with  bath, 

$1.50,  $2.00  and  $2.50. 
Per   day  — 2   persons,    $2.00,    $2.50 

and  $3.00. 
Per  day  —  2  persons,  with  bath,  $3.00 

and  $4.00. 
Total,  170  rooms  ;  60  rooms  at  $1.00. 

All  rooms  have  running  hot  and 

cold  water. 

Eggle-ston    Hotel,    Stag,   Euro- 
pean Plan: 

Per    day  — 1    person,  $1.00,   $1.25, 

$1.50,  $2.00. 
Per   day  — 2   persons,   $2.00,  .$2.25, 

$2.50,  $3.00. 
All  $1.50  and  $2.00  rooms  have  bath 

and  toilet.     Total,  80  rooms. 

OsBURX  House,  American  Plan: 

Per  day  — $2.50  to  .$3.50.  100  rooms 
with  running  water;  50  rooms  with 
bath.     Bell  phone  in  every  room. 

Jackson  Temperance  Hotel, 

Evn-opean  Plan : 
Per  day— 1  person,  50c.,  75c.,  $1.00. 
Per  day  —  2   persons,  $1.00,   $1.25, 

$1.50'. 
Total,  65  rooms. 

All  of  the  foregoing  hotels  are 
in  the  heart  of  the  business  sec- 
tion and  within  a  few  minutes 
Avalk  of  the  Convention  Hall. 
In  addition  there  are  a  large 
number  of  rooming  and  boarding 


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houses  where  excellent  accom- 
modations may  be  secured.  The 
important  thing  is  is  to  trriie  di- 
rect to  the  hotel  you  wish  and  se- 
cure your  accommodations-  NOIV. 

The  Seneca,  Powers,  Roches- 
ter, Whitcomb  and  Osburn  hotels 
have  busses  that  meet  every  train. 

If  you  have  secured  accommo- 
dations elsewhere,  or  desire  ac- 
commodations and  are  not  famil- 
iar with  the  city,  when  you  arrive 
take  the  car  marked  Conven- 
tion Hall,"  and  go  directly  to 
the  Bureau  of  Information,  which 
is  in  charge  of  the  Rochester  Sec- 
tion, where  you  Avill  be  promptly 
taken  care  of.  Everything  pos- 
sible is  going  to  be  done  for  your 
comfort  and  convenience — but  to 
make  doubly  sure,  write  and 
secure  your  accommodations  now. 


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OMMODIOUS   AND 
CONVENIENT 

In  the  May  issue  we  described 
the  Changing  Table  and  Negative 
Drj'er,  in  use  in  our  model  studio. 
This  article  elicited  much  favor- 
alile  comment  and  a  demand  for 
further  information  along  the 
same  lines. 

On  the  opposite  \)nge  we  illus- 
trate the  Developing  Sink  that 
two  years  constant  use  has 
demonstrated  to  be  most  prac- 
tical and  convenient.  It  will  be 
noticed  that  every  bit  of  space 
has  been  utilized  to  good  advan- 
tage, and  that  its  proportions  can 


readily  be  modified  to  fit  any 
room.  The  hypo  bin  and  chem- 
ical cupboard  do  not  extend  to 
the  floor,  thus  protecting  the  con- 
tents from  dam))ness.  The  h\po 
bin  swings  outward  and  down 
from  the  top,  so  that  its  contents 
may  be  easily  transferred  without 
spilling  and  is  a  vast  improvement 
over  the  dangerous  open  keg  or 
barrel.  The  chemical  cujjboard 
is  fitted  Avith  sliding  doors,  in- 
suring against  barked  shins, 
should  a  door  inadvertently  be 
left  open.  The  disappearing 
shelves  for  mixing  chemicals  are 
always  ready  for  use  when  needed, 
and  out  of  the  way  when  not  in 
use.  Underneath  the  tray  rack 
is  a  removable  trough  for  col- 
lecting any  drip,  this  not  only 
helps  to  keep  the  dark  room  floor 
dry,  but  protects  the  plates  from 
any  chemical  dust  arising  from 
solutions  drying  on  the  floor. 
The  Avhite  incandescent  lamps  for 
illuminating  the  dark  room,  and 
the  lamps  in  the  developing  lights 
are  connected  Avith  a  "  two  Avay  " 
SAvitch,  so  that  throwing  the 
handle  over  extinguishes  one  and 
lights  the  other.  The  white 
lights  are  placed  directly  over 
the  Avashing  boxes  so  that  the 
plates  ma3'  be  readily  seen  and 
scratches  and  finger  marks 
avoided.  These  lights  are  also 
placed  sufficiently  high  to  illumi- 
nate the  fixing  boxes  as  well. 
The  developing  lights  are  fitted 
Avith  three  movable  sashes,  one 
fitted  Avith  ground  glass,  one  Avith 


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ruby,  and  the  outer  frame  Avith 
orange  glass.  The  outer  frame 
also  carries  a  sheet  metal  hood 
for  throwing  the  light  doAvn  upon 
the  developing  traj',  and  making 
it  easy  to  move  the  tray  out  of 
the  range  of  light.  The  sliding 
sashes  carrying  the  orange  and 
ruby  glasses  are  raised  and 
lowered  by  means  of  cords 
passing  over  small  j)ulleys  at  the 
top,  and  the  ruby  glass  sash  is 
pro\ided  with  a  lock,  to  prevent 
its  being  accidentally  raised  when 
exi)Osed  plates  are  in  range  of 
the  light.  The  ground  glass  sash 
may  be  raised  by  hand  when 
necessaiy.  The  shelf  between 
the  developing  lamps  is  the  only 
shelf  in  the  room,  and  provides 
a  i)lace  for  bottles  of  stock  devel- 
oper solutions.  Underneath  the 
shelf  is  a  rack  for  graduates,  the 
rack  holds  the  graduates  firmly 
and  affords  perfect  drainage,  and 
is  much  better  than  the  long 
pegs  sometimes  used  to  slip  the 
graduate  over,  as  nothing  comes 
in  contact  with  the  inside  of  the 
graduate.  The  two  end  ta])S 
l)rovide  cold  water,  and  the  cen- 
ter one  hot  water,  and  are  placed 
at  a  sufficient  distance  apart  to 
avoid  accidents.  The  brackets 
supporting  the  white  incandes- 
cent lamps  could  be  made  with 
tops  sufficiently  large  to  support 
electric  fans  for  cooling  and  ven- 
tilating in  hot  weather. 

The  diagram  is  largely  self 
explanatory,  and  we  trust  this 
brief  description  will  be  of  ser- 


vice to  anj'  of  the  fraternity 
desiring  to  remodel  or  build  a 
dark  room. 


i^~\UIl    ILLUSTRATIONS 

^-^  Filson  &  Son  of  Steu- 
benville,  Ohio,  have  kindly  sup- 
l)hed  the  illustrations  for  this 
issue. 

The  Filson  Studio  is  finely  ap- 
pointed and  enjoys  a  steadily 
increasing  patronage. 

Quality  first,  last  and  all  the 
time  has  made  the  Filson  repu- 
tation, and  the  fact  that  Aristo 
is  used  almost  exclusively  demon- 
strates that  with  them  quality 
means  quality. 


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DOUBLE  HEADER 


Nepera  Waxing  Solution, 
as  a  medium  for  adding  lustre 
and  helping  out  detail  on  sepia 
prints,  has  made  a  hit,  and  in 
addition  we  have  received  several 
letters  from  the  profession  rec- 
ommending it  as  a  negative  var- 
nish and  as  a  retouching  medium. 
Our  experiments  demonstrate  its 
adaptability  for  these  purposes 
and  we  are  very  glad  to  ]iass  the 
information  alono-. 


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July    19-24 


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THE  NEW  RECEP- 
TIONIST 

BY   THE    OFFICE    BOY 

We  got  a  new  recejjtion  room 
girl.  Miss  Higgiiis  she  got  mar- 
ried to  a  man  las'  month  an'  the 
Boss  had  to  get  a  new  one. 

Nope,  she  aint  so  much  on 
looks,  but  she  just  sorta  fits  into 
things — nope,  she  don't  wear  no 
l)onipadour  an'  she  dresses  quiet 
like,  an'  her  clothes  don't  scraj) 
with  any  of  the  ladies'  clothes 
wot  comes  in. 

She  sure  knows  her  business 
though — if  anybody  comes  in 
that  looks  like  ready  money  they 
don't  get  otF  with  any  four  dol- 
lars for  a  dozen  cabs,  either.  She 
Avorks  a  little  game  somethin' 
like  this — she  never  lets  anyone 
stand  up  and  paw  over  a  lot  of 
samples,  she  gets  'em  off  in  a  cor- 
ner in  a  nice  comfortable  chair, 
an'  then  comes  back  with  four 
or  five  prints,  some  of  the  bosses 
real  classy  stuif,  about  twenty- 
five  per,  an'  she  says,  "here' s some 
nice  things  the  Boss  (only  she 
don't  c;dl  him  that)  made  las' 
week  of  Missus  Perkins — yes, 
the  wife  of  Mr.  Perkins  the  Pres- 
ident of  the  Bank — yes,  she's 
very  particular  you  know — has 
lots  of  pictures  made  here — yes 
— that's  the  very  latest  style  the 
Boss  jus'  got  fi-om  New  York. 

Um — I  wish  you  Avould  have 
a  sitting  made  full  length,  you 
are  so  well  proportioned — and 
do  have  a  profile  made — it  isn't 


often  we  get  a  face  like  yours — 
so  well  suited. 

An'  she  don't  handle  any  two 
of  'em  alike — sizes  'em  up  first, 
j,ome  of  'em  she  lets  do  all  the 
talking,  an'  others  she  jus'  car- 
ries along — sort  of  draws  'em  out 
till  she  gets  a  good  fat  order 
booked. 

If  she  finds  out  she's  been 
showing  'em  something  too  high 
priced— she  don't  say  anythin' 
aliout  anythin'  cheaper — nix — she 
goes  at  it  like  this. 

"Oh,  yes,  I  mos'  forgot  to 
show  you  this  style,  catchy,  isn't 
it — yes,  the  pictures  are  smaller, 
but  the  effect  is  really  the  same, 
an'  this  folder  gives  it  such  an 
artistic  finish — an'  you  are  sav- 
ing quite  a  bit — yes — ten  dollars 
a  dozen.  Will  to-morrow  at  ten- 
thirty  suit  you?  Good  morning." 

Secon'  day  she  was  here  she 
sorts  all  the  sample  prints — and 
then  gets  out  Taprell's  catalogue 
— then  she  asks  the  finishing 
room  man  to  come  in  a  minute — 
an'  asks  him  has  he  any  more 
mounts  like  those — he  says 
"  Nope" — and  then  she  says, "  I  see 
Taprell  don'  make  these  any 
more,  and  if  Ave  aint  got  any 
more  of  'em,  our  samples  ought 
to  be  mounted  on  mounts  we  can 
supply."  "Sure,"  he  says,  and  he 
says  to  me  that  noon,  "she's  an 
up-to-dater,  aint  she?" 

She  sure  takes  an  interest  in 
the  business — she  wont  let  me 
come  around  'less  my  shoes  are 
shined  an'  my  face  clean — Gee, 


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ALL  ABOARD   F 


Write  the  organizer   in  your  territory 


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Special  parties  to  attend  the 

National   Convention 
July  19th  to  24th,  1909 

are  being  organized  by  the  following : 


Robey-French  Co.,  Boston,  Mass. 

C.  F.  Becker,  235,  West  23rd  St., 

New  York  City 

John  Haworth  Company,      Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Sweet,  Wallach  &  Co.,  Chicago,  111. 

W.  Schiller  &  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

St.  Louis-Hyatt  Photo  Supply  Co., 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Zimmerman  Bros.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

O.  H.  Peck  Company,        Minneapolis,  Minn. 


)R   ROCHESTER 


or  full   information  and  reservations 


STUDIO    LIGHT   arid 


it's  wonderful  wot  a  influence  a 
woman  can  have  m  ith  us  men. 


QCHOOL  DAYS 

^^  There  have  been  a  good 
many  sessions  of  the  Eastman 
School  of  Professional  Photog- 
raphy, and  we  have  yet  to  hear 
from  the  j^hotographer  who  did 
not  feel  that  his  time  was  well 
spent  in  attending— and  we  have 
had  a  good  many  of  the  top 
notchers. 

No  two  people  think  exactly 
alike,  or  do  things  in  exactly  the 
same  waj",  and  no  matter  how 
adept  we  may  be  in  one  or  all 
branches  of  the  profession,  there 
is  always  some  one  who  has 
worked  out  a  short  cut  or  dis- 
covered a  method  of  doing  things 
that  are  an  improvement  over 
our  methods. 

The  lessons  and  teachings  of 
the  Eastman  School  are  not  the 
same  year  in  and  year  out.  The 
lecturers  and  demonstrators  are 
just  as  eager  to  learn  as  to  teach, 
and  when  some  one  shows  or  sug- 
gests a  new  stunt,  method  or 
device  that  looks  good,  it  is,  if 
it  stands  a  practical  test,  incor- 
porated in  the  lessons  and  passed 
along. 

Our  salesmen  and  demonstra- 
tors cover  the  countiy  thoroughly, 
and  they  go  about  Avith  eyes  and 
ears  open,  as  for  their  own  good 
they  must  keep  up  to  date ;  they 
hear  and  learn  many  things,  and 


the  good  ideas  thej'  pick  up  are 
sent  in  to  headquarters  so  that 
all  may  benefit  bj^  them. 

Be  thorough  and  keep  a  little 
ahead  of  date,  is  the  slogan  of 
the  school.  And  so  it  will  pay 
you  to  attend  every  time  it  is 
held  in  your  territory.  Keep 
yourself  posted  up  to  date  by 
reading  the  School  Bulletin  pub- 
lished in  each  issue  of  Studio 
Light. 


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P  TO  US 


If  we  want  to  keep  on 
selling  you  plates  and  papers,  it 
is  up  to  us  to  see  that  you  obtain 
the  best  possible  results  Avith 
these  products.  But  if  we  pro- 
vide you  Avith  plates  and  ])apers 
that  are  perfect,  and  then  fail  to 
provide  jou  with  the  correct  for- 
mulas, for  working  these  plates 
and  paj^ers,  and  Avith  first-class 
chemicals  Avith  Avhich  to  com- 
pound these  formulas,  who 
loses?  That  is  the  reason  for 
our  saying  so  much  about  tested 
chemicals.  By  sight,  taste  or 
smell  you  cannot  tell  pure  chemi- 
cals from  the  impm-e.  Neither 
can  Ave,  and  neither  can  our  ex- 
pert chemists  determine  the  qual- 
ity by  any  of  the  means  afforded 
the  average  man.  To  determine 
chemical  quality  and  purity, 
special  means  must  be  provided, 
and  at  a  cost  only  in  reach  of 
those  Avho  deal  in  large  quanti- 
ties.   We  have  expert  chemists, 


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and  the  most  modern  and  up  to 
the  minute  laboratorj^  equip- 
ment. Every  chemical  we  use  or 
sell  must  pass  the  severest  tests 
for  purity  and  quality,  and  this 
trade  mark  on  the 
label  is  your  and 
our  mutual  insur- 
ance. Best  results 
are  imperative  for 
us  and  for  you. 
We  take  no  chances,  neither 
should  you. 


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Y  SIMPLE  MEANS 


We  all  of  us  hesitate  a 
a  little  bit  when  it  comes  to  in- 
tensifying a  particularly  choice 
negative  by  means  of  the  ordi- 
nary bi-chloride  of  mercury  pro- 
cess. There  is  always  that  chance 
of  iridescent  stains  —  the  kind 
that  "wont  come  off" — and  like- 
Avise  the  chance  of  the  nega- 
tive going  bad  at  no  far  distant 
day.  There  is  little  to  be  said  in 
favor  of  the  bi-chloride  of  mer- 
cury process,  and  the  profession 
are  according  a  warm  welcome 
to  the  simjjle  and  sui-e  process 
of  re-development. 

This  method  is  onlj'  com])ar- 
atively  new,  but  the  now  com- 
mon use  of  Royal  Re-developer 
for  sepia  tones  on  Nepera  and 
Bromide  prints  has  made  the 
process  well  known  and  has 
placed  the  necessarj^  materials  in 
the  hands  of  every  photog- 
rapher. 


SHOWING  KFFF.CT  OF  RE-DEVELOPMENT 

Royal  Re-developer  may  be 
used  for  the  intensification  of 
negatives  in  exactly  the  same 
manner  as  for  producing  sepia 
tones  on  developing  paper. 

Negatives  intensified  by  means 
of  Royal  Re-developer  lose  ab- 
solutely nothing  in  the  way  of 
permanence,  run  no  risks  from 
stains  or  granular  markings,  and 
build  up  evenlj"  and  without  un- 
due contrast. 

The  advantage  of  being  able  to 
use  the  chemicals  for  two  different 
purposes  is  oljvious,  and  the  re- 
sults in  either  case  are  all  that 
could  be  desired. 


Keep  a  copj'  of  Canadian  Card 
Co.'s  catalogue  handj' — there  is 
a  ])rofit  suggestion  in  every 
page. 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 
By  Filson  cfc  Son  SteubenviUe,  Ohio 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


R 


EADY    FOR 
THING 


ANY- 


In  comes  Mrs.  Jones,  one  of 
your  best  and  wealthiest  custom- 
ers. "Oh,  Mr.  Smith!  I  am  go- 
ing to  give  a  garden  party  for  my 
httle  daughter  next  week,  can't 
you  come  out  or  send  some  one 
to  make  some  pictures.^" 

You  smihngly  give  assent,  and 
when  the  day  of  the  party  arrives 
you  send  Tom,  your  assistant,  or 
go  yourself  to  make  the  pictures. 
Now  Mrs.  Jones  became  your 
permanent  customer  because  you 
gave  her  some  pictures  out  of  the 
ordinary.  In  this  mstance  you 
can  make  a  number  of  groups 
and  single  figure  exposures,  and 
let  it  go  at  that  — but  — if  you 
could  only  show  her  some  pict- 
ures of  the  children  dancing  the 
maypole  dance  or  actively  en- 
gaged in  some  of  the  games  de- 
vised for  their  entertainment 
instead  of  the  usual  stereotyped 
pictures,  your  reputation  for  orig- 
inahty  wouldn't  suffer  any.— And 
the  amount  of  your  bill  might  be 
quite  a  few  dollars  more. 

You  are  pretty  well  acquainted 
with  the  High  School  and  Col- 
lege boys,  and  one  day  young 
Thomi>son  of  the  Track  Commit- 
tee calls  you  up:  "Saj",  Mr. 
Smith,  we're  going  to  have  some 
track  events  next  Saturday  and 
we  want  you  to  come  out  and 
make  some  pictures — all  the  fel- 
lows know  you  and  don't  feel  so 


fussed  up   when  you   make    the 
pictures." 

Perhaps  next  daj' Brown  over  at 
the  First  National  drops  in — "Say, 
Smith,  I've  got  the  dandiest  lit- 
tle three-year-old  —  good  for  two- 
ten  any  day,  come  on  out  to  the 
park  with  me  and  make  me  a 
picture  or  so  of  her  in  action." 

Your  business  is  taking  pict- 
ures in  the  studio?  To  be  sure, 
yet  5'ou  really  don't  want  any  of' 
these  good  customers  of  jours  to 
feel  that  you  cannot  or  do  not 
want  to  make  these  other  pict- 
ures for  them,  as  there  is  always 
a  chance  of  their  keeping  on  go- 
ing to  the  other  fellow  if  j  ou  let 
them  get  away  from  you  even 
once. 

The  solution  is  a  focal  plane 
shutter. 

But  a  Graflex  camera  costs  a 
lot  of  nionej".  Well  now,  who 
said  anything  about  a  Graflex 
camera? — that  will  come  in  time 
—  but  until  j'ou  have  enough  of 
this  unusual  sort  of  work  in  sight 
to  warrant  it,  take  the  next  best 
thing. 

Have  a  Graflex  Focal  Plane 
Shutter  fitted  to  j^our  vicAV  cam- 
era, and  you  are  ready  for  any- 
thing that  comes  along.  Not  so 
handy  or  convenient  as  the  Gra- 
flex camera,  but  it  will  do  the 
work,  and  give  you  the  reputa- 
tion for  being  ready  for  anything 
that    comes   along. 

The  Graflex  Focal  Plane  Shut- 
ter lists  as  follows :  5  x  7,  .^24.00 ; 
6^x8i,  $27.00;  8  x  10,  $31.00. 


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THE  ONLY  CON- 
DITION 

We  make  but  one  condi- 
tion in  our  ofFt-r  of  cuts  for 
the  use  of  photographers. 

It  is  obvious  that  two 
photographers  in  the  same 
town  would  not  care  to  use 
the  same  cut,  and  we  are 
therefore  obHged  to  limit 
this  offer  to  one  photogra- 
pher in  a  town.  It  Avill  be 
a  case  of  first  come  first 
served.  The  first  order 
froin  a  city  Avill  be  promptly 
fUled.  Succeeding  orders  (if 
any)  will  necessarily  be 
turned  down  and  the  re- 
mittance, of  course,  will  be 
returned.  It  is  also  obvious 
that  Ave  cannot,  on  account 
of  the  cost  of  the  drawings, 
furnish  any  large  variet}'  of 
cuts  at  the  nominal  prices 
quoted,  and  therefore  can 
offer  no  substitute  ciit.  The 
thing  to  do  is  to  get  your 
order  in  Jirst,  as  it  would  not 
be  fair  to  give  the  man  who 
happens  to  get  in  his  order 
earlj'  one  month,  a  permanent 
ad\'antage ;  we  shall  book  no 
orders  in  advance.  They 
mustalwaj's  specify  the  num- 
ber of  cut  desired.  If  later 
on  it  develops  that  there  is 
a  gi-eat  enough  demand  for 
these  advertising  cuts  to  Avar- 
rant  our  furnishing  a  larger 
variety,  Ave  shall  be  glad  to 
do  so.        c.  K.  Co..  Ltd. 


You  are  proud  of  your 
wife  and  cliildren. 
Why  don't  you  bring 
them  to  us  to  be  plio- 
tographed?  We  will 
give  you  a  picture  that 
will  make  you  prouder 
still. 

Telephone  to-day 
for  an  Appointment. 

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STUDIO   LIGHT  a  7t  d 


G 


R  O  W  I  N  G 


The  demand  for  our  elec- 
tros for  use  in  studio  advertising 
is  steadily  increasing.  Practically 
every  photographer  Avho  ordered 
the  first  cut  has  ordered  the 
second  one.  and  our  list  shows  a 
most  encouraging  number  of  new 
names  for  the  second  electro. 

Join  the  army  of  the  pro- 
gressive, let  your  public  know 
you  are  in  business,  back  up 
your  newspaper  copy  with  good 
show  case  display — keep  at  it  and 
you  are  bound  to  win. 


It  is  our  intention  to  provide  a 
new  cut  for  each  issue  of  Studio 
Light,  and  we  shall  endeavor  to 
make  the  cut  and  copy  as  season- 
able as  possible.  On  page  23  we 
illustrate  the  cut  for  this  month, 
the  number  is  142  and  the  price 
is  50  cents. 

Please  order  by  number  and 
remit  in  stamps,  and  do  not  over- 
look the  fact  that  but  one  pho- 
tographer in  a  town  can  be  sup- 
plied, and  that  it  is  first  come, 
first  served. 

You  will  find  pen,  ink  and 
paper  in  your  desk. 


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r  L  L  E  T  I  N  :   THE  EASTMAN  SCHOOL  OF 

Professional  PHOTOGRAPHY  for  looo 


Auspices  F.  J.  Feldman,  El  Paso,  Texas,  June  1,  2,  3. 

Auspices  Howland&  Dewey  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  June  8,  9,  10- 

Auspices  Hirsch  &  Kaiser,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  June  15,  l6,  17. 

Auspices    Portland   Photo   Supply  Co.,    Portland,  Oregon,  June 
22,  23,  24. 

Auspices  Tacoma  Dental  &  Photo  Supply  Co.,  Tacoma,  Wash., 
June  29,  30,  July  1. 

Auspices  John  W.  Graham  &  Co.,  Spokane,  Wash.,  July  7,  8,  9* 

Auspices  Robt.  Dempster  Co.,  Omaha,  Neb.,  July  15,  l6,  17. 

Auspices   Memphis    Photo   Supply    Co.,    Memphis,    Tenn.,   July 
20,  21,  22. 

Auspices  Des  Moines  Photo  Materials  Co.,  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
July  27,  28,  29. 


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4     x5 

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1.45 
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ROLLS 

3^8  X  514 

.25 

.95 

1.75 

10  ft.  Roll  241, 

3"sx5"8 

.30 

1.10 

1.95 

ins.  wide.  ..ii;1.95 

414x51/2 

.80 

1.10 

1.95 

5  yd.  Roll  241 2 

4     x6 

.25 

.95 

1.75 

ins.  wide.  ..S2.80 

414x6!.^ 

.30 

1.30 

2.25 

10  yd.  Roll  241  2 
ins.  wide.  .§5.15 

434x61, 
4x9 

.30 
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1.75 

2.60 
2.85 

5x7 

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1.70 

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5     x7i, 

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1.80 

3.00 

in    24I2     inch 

5x8" 

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1.80 

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widths.)' 

51  ,  X  734 

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6  'xS 

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4.40 

7x9" 

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65       1.25 

7.20 

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Canadian 

12    X  15 

14    xl7            1 

80       1.40 
00       1.90 

8.50 
10.80 

16.00 
20.65 

Kodak 

16    x20           1 

30       2.50 

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M.  ^L.  V^  X^S-  %^.A.^ 

17    x20           1 

40       2.75 

15.45 

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Co.,  Limited 

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Toronto,  Can. 

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Nepera 

Waxing  Solution 

Helps  detail  and  adds  lustre 
to  Sepia  prints 


Especially  effective  on  Sepia 
toned  Hoyal  Nci)era  and  lioyal 
A^elox  prints, 

A])pl3^  evenly  with  Canton 
Flannel,  and  rub  into  the 
surface. 

Price,  2^cr  bottle,  Txventy  Cents 
All  Dealers 


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If  you  don't  use  the 
Kodak  tested  chemi- 
cals for  your  work  we 
shall  both  lose  money 
— but  you'll  lose  the 
most. 


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STUDIO    LIGHT  and 


THE  EASTMAN 

PLATE  TANK 

Is  Constructed  Right. 


The  simple  loading  device  permits  the  loading  of 
the  plates  into  the  rack  in  a  few  seconds,  without 
scratching  or  marring. 

The  a'n-tig'hf,  locking  cover  allows  the  whole  tank 
to  be  reversed — no  fishings  the  plate  raek  out  of  the 
.solution  dur'ntg-  development  —  and  the  hand  on  the 
dial  tells  you  when  development  will  be  completed. 

Eastman  Plate  Tank,  5xT,         -  S  4.50 

Eastman  Plate  Tank,  8x10,       -  10.00 

Canadian  Kodak  Co.,  Ltd. 

Toronio.  Cdiuula 


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The  best  of  everything 
for  use  in  the  Studio 


A  complete  line  of 

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Canadian  Card  Co.'s 
Mounts 

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STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


You  Can't  Afford 

To  overlook  the  Kenshigton  Style  when  placing  your 
order  for  a  neat  classy  card  for  your  best  grade  of  work 


The  Kensington  Style  "i,'«t,;"a  J  ct'a'S  wSe! 


rich  Water-Silk  finish;  matched  edges,  with  tinted  line  to  harmon- 
ize with  color  of  card  1 4 -inch  from  border  all  round.  Embossed  with 
a  very  neat  design  set  up  from  the  bottom;  just  what  you  are  want- 
ing in  a  7  X  11  mount. 

Samples  mailed  on  receipt  of  three  two-cent  stamps. 

DESIGNED   AND    MASIFACTURF.D    BY 

The  Canadian  Card  Co. 

TORONTO,  CANADA 


Aristo  Motto 


'T  ^  fE  believe  permanency  is  the 
»  '  Keystone  of  Photographic 
Success,  and  all  brands  of  paper 
bearing  our  Trade-mark  are  manu- 
factured on  tliis  principle.  We  hold 
our  consumer's  reputation  and  suc- 
cess identical  with  our  own.  We 
surround  both  with  every  safe- 
guard known  to  chemical  science 
and  our  own  experience." 


FROM  AN  ANGELO  SEPIA  PLATINUM  PRINT 
By  Frank  E.  Dean  Grand  Junction,  Colo. 


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NKW    SERIES 

Vol.  1     No.  .5 


JULY  1909 


OLD    SERIES 
No.    10^ 


BIGGER,  BUSIER   AND 
BETTER:  THE  ROCH- 
ESTER CONVENTION 

July  19-24,  1909 

Every  jihotographer  who  jour- 
neys to  the  Rochester  convention 
this  year  will  return  to  his  home 
the  week  following,  assured  of 
the  fact,  that  to  keep  pace  with 
the  times,  one  must  meet  his 
fellow  workman  in  time  and  place 
where  the  knowledge  of  years 
is  dispensed  freely  and  without 
Oust.  This  is  what  is  proposed  at 
the  Rochester  convention.  The 
Association  takes  pleasiu-e  in  an- 
nouncing the  names  of  the  fijllow- 
ing  photographers  Avho  will  take 
charge  of  the  classes  of  instruction 
in  the  schools  of  photography  ar- 
ranged by  the  Association : 
Monday,  9  a.  m. — A.  F.  Bradley, 

New  York. 
Tuesday,  10:30  a.  m.  — F.  H.  So.ai- 

MERs,  Cincinnati. 
Wednesday,  8  p.  m. — Lantern  exiii- 

bition :      Ryland    W.     Phillips, 

Philadelphia;     Gertrude    Kase- 

BiER,  New  York. 
Thursday,  10:30  a.  m.— E.  B.  Core, 

New  York;   Frank  Scott  Clark, 

Detroit. 
Friday,   11   a.   m.— W.  H.  Towles, 

Washington. 


Saturday,  11  a.  bi. — Showing  com- 
plete results  of  demonstrator's 
work,  by  lantern  projection. 

The  school  program  for  the 
week  will  be  under  the  leader- 
ship of  Ryland  W.  Philhps,  of 
Philadelphia,  Avho  does  things 
well.  He  will  be  ably  assisted 
by  Vice-president  J.  H.  C.  Evan- 
oif  in  carrying  out  his  plans,  all 
of  which  speaks  for  the  success 
of  the  school. 

When  it  is  possible  for  an 
Association  to  assemble  talent  of 
this  calibre  for  mutual  improve- 
ment, its  members  should  appre- 
ciate the  fact  that  they  are  not 
secured  by  pecuniary  consider- 
ations. They  give  freely  of  their 
knowledge  and  valuable  time  to 
uplift  and  advance  the  move- 
ment of  associated  interests  in 
photograjjhy,  purely  from  a  fra- 
ternal standpoint. 

An  entirely  new  and  novel 
feature  in  convention  class  work 
will  be  shown  for  the  first  time 
at  this  convention.  Through  the 
courtesy  of  the  Bausch  &  Lomb 
Optical  Co.  they  have  constructed 
for  our  use,  a  new  projecting 
lantern  which  will  alhnv  our  mem- 
bers to  see  negatives  intensified 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


or  reduced  upon  the  screen,  and 
also  show  the  results  of  the  vari- 
ous class  leaders. 

As  fast  as  the  negatives  are 
made  under  the  light  they  will 
be  develoj)ed  and  lanteni  slides 
made  fi-oni  them.  The  time  oc- 
cupied for  the  comj)letion  of  these 
slides  ready  to  show  upon  the 
screen  will  be  less  than  one-half 
hour.  By  the  time  the  last  neg- 
atives are  made  in  the  class  dem- 
onsti*ations  the  final  results  will 
be  read}'  to  shoAV  ujion  the  screen. 

Saturday  morning  the  devices 
or  inventions  Mill  be  shoAvn  and 
demonstrated  for  the  following 
prizes : 

First  prize,  ^100  cash. 

Second  prize,  handsome  hand- 
liound  set  of  the  Library  of  Prac- 
tical Photography,  valued  at  875, 
the  courtesj'  of  J.  B.  Schriever. 

These  awards  to  be  given  by 
po])ular  vote  of  the  convention. 

After  this  business  the  closing 
feature  of  the  week  will  be  the 
showing  of  the  complete  results 
and  finished  pictures  of  the  vari- 
ous demonstrators  which  in  the 
final  results  Avill  embodj'  their 
individual  ideas.  A  slide  of  the 
crude  negative  Avill  first  be  shown, 
then  followed  by  a  slide  made 
from  a  picture  ready  to  deliver 
to  a  patron.  Don't  fail  to  get 
this  instruction. 

The  business  sessions  will 
occur  on  the  mornings  of  Tues- 
day, Thursda}',  Friday  and 
Saturday,  at  9  a-  m.  sharp,  in 
the  Assembly  Hall  of  the  Seneca 


Hotel,  the  headquarters  of  the 
Association.  These  sessions  will 
be  called  promptlj'  on  time. 
They  are  to  be  short  snappy 
sessions  in  order  to  clear  the  way 
for  the  school  classes  on  the  same 
mornings. 

Monday  afternoon  at  2  o'clock 
the  various  state  representatives 
will  assemble  at  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  Hall  for  organization 
of  the  first  congress  of  photog- 
raphy, its  object  being  to  dis- 
cuss, and  if  practical,  to  devise 
a  plan  of  co-ojjeration  of  the  State 
and  National  Ar.sociations.  Let 
no  delegate  who  has  thus  been 
honored  by  his  state  be  absent, 
your  ol^ligation  is  j'our  duty.  Let 
nothing  hinder  your  presence,  as 
a  full  representation  is  desired. 
All  dulj"  accredited  delegates  Avill 
receive  their  credentials  at  the 
box  office  in  Cf)nvention  Hall. 

Monday  night  will  be  a  recep- 
tion of  members  at  the  Seneca 
Hotel. 

Tuesday  afternoon  the  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce  Hall  is  reserved 
for  the  continuance  of  the  con- 
gress of  photography.  Bj'  so 
doing  it  is  hoped  to  have  a  report 
ready  preparatorj"  to  the  dis- 
cussion of  the  Constitution  and 
By-laws  of  the  P.  A.  of  A.  on 
Tuesday  night. 

Tuesday  afternoon  is  Ladies 
afternoon.  They  are  to  be  enter- 
tained by  the  Rochester  Section 
of  the  New  York  State  Society. 

Wednesday  is  given  over  en- 
tirely   to    the    photographic    in- 


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dustries  of  Rochester  and  manj^ 
of  them  are  iirei)arin<jj  to  make 
you  welcome  and  entertain  you. 

Wednesday,  8  P.  m.  sharp, 
presents  the  most  instructive 
night  of  the  convention  uiider  the 
leadership  of  Ryland  VV.  Phillips, 
assisted  by  Mrs.  Gertrude  Kase- 
bier.  Mr.  Phillips  in  his  own 
practical  waj'  will  give  illus- 
trations of  the  work  of  leading 
studios,  showing  how  many  of 
the  best  photographers  w'ork 
their  skylights  in  producing  the 
beautiful  Avork  so  familiar  to  all 
of  us.  GET  THIS  INFOR- 
MATION. 

Mrs.  Kasebier  will  give  an  art 
criticism  of  her  own  work  and 
her  talk  is  sure  to  be  of  great 
value  to  her  fortunate  hearers. 
Mrs.  Kasebier  is  one  of  the  fore- 
most women  photographers,  and 
our  Association  is  most  fortunate 
in  securing  her  services.  She 
will  have  something  to  say. 

Thursday  and  Friday  after- 
noons the  Canadian  photogra- 
phers will  meet  in  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  Hall  for  the  transac- 
tion of  business  of  the  Photog- 
raphers Association  of    Canada. 

Thursda}',  from  5  p.  m.  till 
midnight,  everybody  will  be  en- 
tertained by  the  Eastman  Kodak 
Co.  atOntai'io  Beach.  Tickets  will 
be  supplied  for  this  entertain- 
ment to  include  transportation 
to  and  fi-om  the  Beach,  admission 
to  the  park  and  a  seat  at  the 
banquet  table.  In  short,  an  old 
fashioned  picnic  where  happiness 


is  to  reign  supreme  for  photog- 
raphers, dealers  and  the  ladies. 

Friday  night  is  reserved  as 
manufacturers  and  dealers  night 
and  a  good  night  of  enjoyment 
is  assured.  Details  will  be  an- 
nounced later. 

In  arranging  the  Aveek's  pro- 
gram every  afternoon  has  been 
given  over  to  the  manufacturers 
and  dealers;  there  being  no 
business  sessions  or  school  classes 
during  the  afternoons. 

Remember  that  every  hour  of 
the  time  during  the  week  has 
been  provided  for.  Therefore 
follow  the  printed  program  which 
will  be  circulated  at  Convention 
Hall. 

O/"  all  things  be  on  time  and 
there  Avill  be  no  regrets  after- 
wards. Everybody  must  keep 
moving  as  the  program  will  be 
followed  on  schedule  time. 

There  Avill  be  the  largest  at- 
tendance of  photographers  in 
Rochester  ever  before  assembled 
and  for  this  reason  you  should 
secure  your  hotel  accommoda- 
tions early. 

In  purchasing  your  ticket  Avhen 
leaving  for  Rochester  don't  fail  to 
ask  for  certificate  Avhich  entitles 
you  to  the  reduced  railroad  fare 
returning. 

Saturday  night  Ave  break  camp 
and  leave  for  our  homes  with  new 
inspirations,  ncAV  friends  and  new 
ideas,  resolute  and  determined 
to  make  the  19 10  convention 
eclipse  that  of  1909. 

F.  R.  Barrows. 


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AC  H  A  N  G  E  OF  AIR 
Dear  Mr.  Editor: 

What  is  it  that  -will  go  up  a 
chimney  down  or  down  a  chim- 
ney down,  but  AvoTi't  go  up  a 
chimnej'  up  or  down  a  chinmey 
up? 

Confushig — but  there's  an  an- 
swer— an  umbrella.  Likewise  the 
Itinerant  Anti-Organ,  it  has  just 
moved  again  by  the  way,  tries 
to  confuse,  befog  and  befuddle 
its  readers — but  there's  an  an- 
SAver — it  lost  the  Eastman 
advertising.  The  itinerant  editor 
asks  me  (in  his  June  5th.  issue) 
if  I  read  the  little  note  in  last 
week's  paper.  Yes,  I  did.  His 
"little  note"  was  a  scurrilous  and 
unwarranted  attack  in  the  form  of 
an  open  letter  to  Mr.  Conradi.  of 
Bethlehem,  a  dealer  in  Eastman 
goods,  who  believes  in  the  East- 
man Avay  of  doing  business  and 
has  said  so  in  print.  May  29th, 
fi-om  the  coal  regions,  the  Anti- 
Organ  said :  "It  needed  no  state- 
ment fi-om  you  (Mr.  Conradi) 
that  you  were  not  influenced  l)y 
the  so-called  trust  to  write  that 
letter.  It  is  only  too  plain  that 
they  did  not  know  that  you  were 
writing  it.  They  are  good  bluff- 
ers up  in  Rochester,  but  thei/  do 
not  usually  care  to  go  into  print 
unth  such  silly  statements  as  you 
have  made  in  your  letter." 

The  very  next  week,  Jmie  5th. 
having  a  new  publication  point, 
a  change  of  air  and  ideas,  the 
Itinerant    Anti-Organ   says   that 


Stereoscope  (that's  me)  is  much 
the  same  kind  of  man  as  Con- 
radi, is  paid  by  the  E.  K.  Co. 
and  that  he  goes  into  print  with 
"statements  he  cannot  prove." 

In  short — May  29th.  (influence 
of  Scranton  air)  he  says:  E.  K. 
Co.  does  not  make  silly  state- 
ments. June  5th.  (under  influ- 
ence of  Lake  Erie  breezes)  he 
says:  E.  K.  Co.  does  make  silly 
statements.  And  there  j'ou  are. 
Mostly  he  has  worried  because, 
as  he  claims,  you  have  raised 
prices.  Now  he  worries  because, 
as  he  claims,  you  have  lowered 
prices.  He  appoints  himself  as 
attorney  for  the  opjwsition,  and, 
putting  me  on  an  imaginaiy  wit- 
ness  stand,  wants  to  know 
Avhether  Commercial  Aristo  and 
Aristo  Platino  are  not  the  same 
except  in  name. 

Not  being  so  close  to  the  seat 
of  infomiation  as  he  thinks  I  am, 
I  can  truthfullj"  answer,  "I  don't 
know."  But  this  I  do  know.  In 
manufacturing  photographic  pa- 
pers, the  minutest  difference  in 
Aveight  or  surface  in  different  rolls 
of  raw  stock  makes  a  noticeable 
though  slight  difference  in  the 
coated  product.  I  do  know  that 
where  there  are  two  grades  of  a 
photographic  product «//«oi/  alike 
that  it  helps  for  the  quality  of 
the  highest  grade,  highest  priced 
product  because  it  gives  an  oj)- 
])ortunitj^  for  selection,  and  I  do 
know  that  reliable  as  Aristo 
Platino  has  always  been  that  it 
has   been  even  more   miiformly 


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perfect  since  the  advent  of  Com- 
mercial Aristo.  If  the  editor  of 
the  Itinerant  Anti-Organ  had 
ever  been  a  professional  photog- 
rapher, he  could  see  for  himself 
■whether  or  not  there  is  a  differ- 
ence— he  would  not  be  obliged 
to  ask  me. 

Two  years  ago,  in  an  argu- 
ment with  this  same  editor,  I 
quoted  a  vigorous  Anti-Truster 
who  stated  in  print  that  the  only 
thing  necessary  to  break  up  the 
trust  is  to  manufacture  "even  a 
better  grade  of  material  than  now 
furnished."     My  comment  was: 

"That's  the  most  sensible 
thing  that  has  been  said  on  the 
trust  question  in  a  long  time. 
There  isn't  anything  else  of  im- 
portance. It's  the  goods  that 
count.  Patents  are  of  no  great 
avail,  trade  restrictions  count  for 
less.   It'saquestionof  the  goods. 

"When  some  other  concern 
makes  better  goods  than  does 
the  present  so-called  trust', 
conditions  will  change,  but  there 
will  still  be  a  trust.  Onlj'  the 
other  concern  will  be  the  "trust. " 

"After  all,  there  are  just  two 
things  that  matter  to  you  and  to 
me — Qualitj'  and  Price.  The  rest 
is — talk."  Stereoscope. 

P.  S.  I  recommend  still  an- 
other change  of  air.  S. 


Be  sure  and  have  a  copy  of  Cana- 
dian Card  Co.'s  catalogue  handy — 
it  will  help  in  working  out  some  of 
your  new  convention  ideas. 


THE  WORK  OF  FRANK 
E.  DEAN 

At  the  1909  Convention  of  the 
Inter-Mountain  Photographers' 
Association,  held  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  L'tah,  April  5  to  8,  work  of 
an  unusually  high  order  was  ex- 
hibited. 

The  competitive  exhibit  was 
divided  into  two  classes — Class 
I,  open  to  all  members  of  the 
Association.  The  award  in  this 
class  being  a  handsome  silver 
trophy  for  the  best  collection  of 
photograi)hic  portraits.  Class  II, 
being  open  to  all  members  from 
towns  of  ten  thousand  population 
or  less.  The  ti'ophy  in  Class  I 
was  awarded  to  Frank  E.  Dean 
of  Grand  Junction,  Colorado,  for 
his  magnificent  disjilay  on  Angelo 
Sepia  Platinum.  Mr.  Dean  has 
kindly  furnished  us  with  a  dupli- 
cate set  of  prints  for  reproduction 
and  we  take  pleasure  in  publish- 
ing them  in  this  issue.  In  send- 
ing the  prints  Mr.  Dean  says,  "  I 
could  write  on  any  subject  prob- 
ably better  than  myself  or  my  own 
work.  I  never  made  anj'  progress 
until  I  got  rid  of  the  idea  that  I 
knew  anything,  and  since  then 
I  have  become  convinced  of  the 
superior  knowledge  and  ability 
of  so  many  of  the  craft  that  I 
feel  like  making  a  break  for  the 
tall  timber  when  the  subject  ot 
self  is  introduced." 

Mr.  Dean  went  to  Colorado  in 
18S'2,  when  Colorado  seemed 
much  further  from  the  center  of 


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things  than  now,  but  kept  right 
on  coming  East  to  attend  con- 
ventions, even  w^hen  he  had  to 
borrow  the  money  for  the  triji. 
He  located  in  Grand  Junction  in 
1900  and  built  a  small  studio, 
went  East  to  a  convention,  came 
back  and  rebuilt  it.  Since  then 
he  has  once  more  remodeled  it, 
and  now  has  plans  for  a  still 
better  one.  Mr.  Dean  says,  "  I 
think  it  good  business  to  keep  a 
little  ahead  of  the  town,  even  if 
it  takes  the  last  dollar  and  then 
some." 

"  I  believe  in  taking  care  of  all 
classes  of  trade,  and  so  make 
work  from  three  dollars  a  dozen 
to  eighteen  dollars  a  dozen  and 
find  the  demand  for  the  better 
stuff  grows. 

"  I  think  we  all  can  take  a  les- 
son from  Studio  Light.  You 
could  print  as  much  in  a  common 
one,  but  it  would  not  touch  the 
spot.  Its  neatness  suggests  sys- 
tem, a  thing  we  photographers 
are  short  on — it  makes  no  excuses 
(don't  have  to),  another  place 
where  we  are  lame,  and  taken 
all  in  all  there  is  enough  in  the 
get-up  of  Studio  Light  to  set 
any  photographer  thinking." 


There  is  comfort  as 
well  as  convenience 
and  oood  results  in 
the  use  of  the 

Eastman  Plate  Tank 


A  COMPREHENSIVE 
ART  EXHIBITION, 
REPRESENTING  AMER- 
ICAN PROFESSIONAL 
PHOTOGRAPHERS 

p.  A.  of  A.  CONVENTION,  ROCHESTER, 
N.  Y.,  JULY  19,  20,  21,  22,  23.  24,  1909 

It  is  in  appreciation  of  the  pho- 
togra{)hers  of  America,  both  men 
and  women,  that  I  have  prepared 
for  publication  the  following  list 
of  names,  representing  those  who 
have  given  me  their  written  prom- 
ises to  send  of  their  work  to  the 
Rochester  convention.  Not  one 
of  these  will  disappoint  our  asso- 
ciation by  failing  to  fulfil  their 
pledge.  This  being  true,  can  we 
measure  the  influence  and  char- 
acter of  this  exhiliition? 

It  is  understood  that  the  appeal 
this  3'ear  is  for  individuality.  Pic- 
tures that  please  the  sense  of  the 
makers  and  represent  their  own 
characteristics  and  individuality. 
The  aim  of  this  undertaking  is 
to  get  our  memliers  in  line  of 
thinking  more  seriously  of  per- 
sonal effort,  and  by  so  doing  to 
break  away  from  the  habit  of  the 
copyist,  which  too  often  causes 
the  productions  of  different  pho- 
tographers to  look  alike ;  in  short, 
let  us  prove  our  capabilities. 

If  added  to  this  list  I  were  to 
subjoin  the  names  of  all  those 
who  have  given  their  verbal 
promise,  this  list  would  be  largely 
increased.  Either  Mr.  Proctor  or 
myself  Avill  be  pleased  to  receive 
a  card  from  anj'  person  Avho 


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desires  to  participate  in  this  exhi- 
bition. It  is  important  that  Avord 
shall  be  received  at  an  early  date, 
that  the  name  of  the  exhil)itor 
may  appear  in  the  cabilogue  of 
the  exhibition,  which  is  to  l>e 
pu])lished  for  the  benefit  of  all 
those  attending  the  convention. 

LIST    OF    EXHIRITORS. 

Will  Armstrong-,  Boston,  Mass. 
H.  A.  Baird,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Bakur  Art  Gallery,  Columbus,  O. 
F.  R.  Barrows,  Boston,  Mass. 
Howard  D.  Beach,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Benjamin  Studio,  Cincinnati,  O. 
A.  F.  Bradlev,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
W.  ().  Breck^n,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
N.  Brock  &  Co.,  Asheville,  N.  C. 

E.  W.  Brown,  Beaver,  Pa. 

A.  M.  Camp,  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 

F.  S.  Clark,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Cole-Miller  Studio,  Danville,  Pa. 
E.  B.  Core,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Isaak  DeVos,  Chicago,  111. 

E.  E.  Doty,  Belding,  Mich. 

J.  H.  C.  Evanoff,  Salem,  Mass. 

B.  J.  Falk,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

F.  J.  Feldman,  El  Paso,  Texas. 
J.  M.  Field,  Berlin,  V.'is. 

J.  H.  Garo,  Boston,  3Iass. 
J.  E.  Giffen,  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 
Elias  Goldensky,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Harris  &  Ewing,  Washington,  D.  C. 
J.  W.  Hawes,  Flushing,  L.  I. 

C.  Pierre  Havens,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
C.  M.  Hayes,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Charles  W.  Hearn,  lioston,  Mass. 
O.  C.  Henrv,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

H.  Hoffman,  Philadeli)hia,  Pa. 
Alfred  Holden,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Walter  Holiday,  Durham,  N.  C. 
Geo.  G.  Holloway, 

Terre  Haute,  Ind. 
Homier  &  Clark,  Richmond,  Va. 
Dudley  Hoyt,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
IMeridith  Janvier,  Baltimore,  Md. 
R.  W.  Johnson,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
T.  Kajiwara,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
J.  WiU  Kellmer,  Hazelton,  Pa. 


J.  H.  Kemp,  Scranton,  Pa. 
Joe  Knaffl,  Knoxville,  Tenn. 
W.  L.  Koehne,  Chicago,  111. 
C.  E.  Kough,  Greensburg,  Pa. 
Ben.  Larrimer,  Marion,  Ind. 
S.  H.  Lifshev,  Brooklvn,  N.  Y. 
W.  S.  Lively,  McMinnville,  Tenn. 
Milton  Lorvea,  Spokane,  Wash. 
Pirie  MacIJonald,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
F.  W.  Medlar,  Sj)encer,  Iowa. 
J.  E.  Mock,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Carl  jNIoon,  Grand  Canon,  Mo. 
John  Nicholson,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
J.  Geo.  Nussbaiuner,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Oscar  Pach,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

C.  J.  Parrot,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
W.  H.  Partridge,  Boston,  Mass. 
W.  E.  Perrv,  Allegheny,  Pa. 
RylandW.  "Phillips, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
A.  T.  Proctor,  Huntington,  W.  Va. 
William  H.  Rau,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
J.  F.  Rentschler,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 
J.  Ed.  Roscii,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Charles  L.  Rosevear,  Toronto,  Can. 

D.  Rosser,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
John  Sabine,  Providence,  R.  I. 
J.  B.  Schriever,  Scranton,  Pa. 
William  Shewell  Ellis, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Smith-Curry  Studio, 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 
D.  D.  Spellman,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Geo.  Steckel,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
S.  L.  Stien,  ]\Iilwaukee,  Wis. 
Ben.  Strauss,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
J.  C.  Strauss,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Thuss  Bros.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Joe  Thibault,  Fall  River,  Mass. 
D.  P.  Thompson,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Geo.  E.  Tinglev,  INIvstic,  Conn. 
Will  H.  Towles,  Washington,  D.  C. 
A.  C.  Townsend,  Lincoln,  Neb. 
C.  J.  VanDeventer,  Decatur,  111. 
Geo.  Van  Norman, 

Springfield,  Mass. 
W.  Neal  Waldon,  Evansville,  Ind. 
Wharton  &  Tyree,  Raleigh,  N.  C. 
Yoimg  &  Carl,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

WOMEN    EXHIBITORS. 

Ella  G.  Ball,  Lancaster,  Pa. 


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Mrs.  Jessie  Tarbox  Beals, 

New  York. 
Jeanne  Bertrand,  Boston,  ]\Iass. 
Mary  Carnell,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Helen  W.  Clogston,  ^Marietta,  Ohio. 
Mrs.  C.  A.  Donaldson, 

Wahpeton,  N.  Y. 
Julia  H.  Elton,  Pitman,  N.  J. 
Mrs.  Emma  Estelle  Francis, 

Germantown,  Philadelphia,  Pa, 
Mrs.  Walter  Griffin    New  York. 
N.  J.  Hall,  Brookline,  Mass. 
Elizabeth  Holden,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Katharine  Jamison,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
IM.  Estelle  Jenkins,  Chicago,  111. 
Belle  Johnson,  ]\lonroe  City,  Mo. 
Frances  B.  Johnston, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  Gertrude  Kasebier,  New  York. 
Mary  E.  McGarvey,  Bellefonte,  Pa. 
Bessie  Meiser,  Richmond.  Ind. 
Mrs.  M.  M.  Morton,  Lindsay,  Ont. 
Rita  B.  Morris,  Jackson,  Mich. 
Blanche  E.  Reineke, 

Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Edith  A.  Ritenour,  Uniontown,  Pa. 
Mrs.  Ella  Saunders,  Cleveland,  O. 
Miss  Small,  Boston,  Mass. 
Mrs.  E.  C.  Standiford, 

Louisville,  Ky. 
Mrs.  Margaret  Van  Fleet, 

Detroit,  Mich. 

The  following  list  of  names 
represent  the  Professional  Photog- 
raphers' Society  of  Ohio.  This 
society  will  exhil)it  collectively, 
they  having  agreed  that  each 
member  shall  send  a  given  num- 
ber of  pictures. 

C.  S.  Bateham,  Norwalk. 

R.  B.  Bellsmith,  Cincinnati. 

L  W.  Bicken,  Fostoria. 

F.  R.  Bill,  Cleveland. 

W.  A.  Bishop,  Sandusky. 

A.  L.  Bowersox,  Cleveland. 

W.  N.  Brenner,  Cincinnati. 

L.  A.  Dozer,  Bucyrus. 

Geo.  M.  Edmondson,  Cleveland. 

K,  G.  Goddard,  Lorain. 


C.  L.  Lewis,  Toledo. 
G.  Barr  Marsh,  Galica. 

B.  Frank  Moore,  Cleveland. 
J.  W.  Porter,  Youngstown. 

C.  W.  Scheide,  Elyria. 

J.  S.  Schneider,  Columbus. 
F.  I\I.  Somers,  Cincinnati. 
Geo.  B.  Sperry,  Toledo. 
Fred  J.  Trost,  Toledo. 
W.  K.  VanDeGrift,  Piqua. 
W.  E.  VanLoo,  Toledo. 
J.  Zweifel,  Dayton. 

The  above  movement  of  this 
society  is  very  gi-atifjing  just  at 
this  time,  as  it  is  in  line  with 
neAV  departures  to  be  discussed 
at  Rochester.  This  idea  demon- 
strates the  value  of  sectional 
organization  in  assisting  and  pro- 
moting the  interests  of  the 
national  association.  If  in  each 
State  we  had  the  organized  sup- 
port of  a  like  society,  much  of 
the  anxiety  of  the  executive 
boards  would  be  eliminated,  and 
the  results  are  incalculable  that 
would  accrue  to  the  National  as 
regards  exhibits,  attendance,  and 
moral  support. 

The  Canadian  Photographers' 
Association  is  assembling  a  col- 
lection of  photographs  to  rep- 
resent Canada.  Its  members  have 
established  a  new  departure  in 
convention  work  which  is  com- 
mendable, and  offers  an  oliject- 
lesson  well  worth  considering  bj^ 
other  societies  making  collective 
exhibits.  All  pictures  are  to  be 
sent  to  Toronto,  and  are  there  to 
be  passed  upon  ])y  a  competent 
jury,  and  onlj"  such  pictures  as 
are  up  to  a  certain  standard  will 
be  forwarded  to  Rochester. 


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If  each  State  in  the  Union 
were  making  the  same  effort  as 
cm'  Cana(han  friends  the  magni- 
tude of  the  exhibition  would  lie 
greater  and  the  quality  better 
than  can  now  l)e  imagined  by 
the  best  of  us. 

THIS    MKA.XS    YOU. 

How  many  photographers  are 
there  who  are  willing  to  aid  in 
making  this  years  exhibition  a 
representative  one  from  the 
standpoint  of  professional 
photography? 

All  we  ask  is  that  you  send 
from  four  to  six  pictures,  such  as 
l)lease  you  and  please  the  people 
you  work  for.  While  we  request 
that  pictures  be  put  in  passe- 
jiartout  or  frames,  j^et  it  is  not 
obligatory,  and  this  question  is 
left  to  the  discretion  of  the 
exhibitor. 

If  you  wish  to  add  to  the  pres- 
tige of  the  Photographers'  Asso- 
ciation of  America,  and  also 
sustain  the  efforts  of  its  officers 
in  gathering  a  fine  collection  of 
pictui'es  for  the  education  of  its 
members,  then  send  yom*  appli- 
cation at  once  to  Mr.  A.  T. 
Proctor,  Huntington,  W.  ^"a., 
who  will  reser\e  space  for  jou 
and  enter  j'our  name  in  the  cata- 
logue list. 

You  need  the  convention;   we 
need   you.      Let  us   all   pull 
together   for  the   Rochester 
convention.      Fraternallj'  yours, 
Fraxk   E.   Barrows, 

President  P.  A.  of  A. 


A  SIMPLE    AND    PRAC- 
TICAL  ENLARGING 
APPARATUS 

The  professional  is  appi'eciat- 
ing  more  and  more  the  financial 
benefits  to  be  derived  from  well 
made  enlagements,  and  with  the 
wide  range  in  effects  afforded  by 
the  Eastman  Bromide  and  devel- 
oping out  papers  he  is  able  to 
duplicate,  and  in  many  instances 
improve  upon,  the  (juality  of  con- 
tact prints,  and  at  a  low  cost. 

The  making  of  an  enlargement 
is  a  simple  matter,  as  an  impro- 
vised apparatus  is  easily  con- 
structed with  an  ordinary  view 
camera,  but  when  anj"  quantity 
of  work  has  to  be  turned  out.  a 
permanent  and  well  constructed 
apparatus  is  advisable. 

We  illustrate  herewith  one  of 
the  enlarging  outfits  in  use  in  our 
studio,  Avhich  is  simple  in  con- 
struction, and  may  be  used  with 
either  dajdight  or  artificial  illum- 
ination. 

The  room  in  which  this  ap- 
paratus is  installed  measures 
aliout  twelve  by  twenty  feet,  and 
is  used  exclusiveh'  for  enlarging 
purposes,  and  contains  in  addi- 
tion, developing  sink,  paper  stor- 
age cabinet  and  work  table.  The 
same  apparatus  can  be  operated 
in  a  much  smaller  space,  utilizing 
the  dark  room  sink  for  de\'elop- 
ing  and  fixing. 

Figure  1  shows  the  side  ele- 
vation of  the  complete  apparatus, 
including   the    suspended    paper 


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Fis.  1. 


3 IDE-     ErL&VATION    OI=- 

Enlarging  apparatus 


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STUDIO  LIGHT  and 


easel.  As  sh()^vIl  in  the  illustra- 
tion, the  camera  and  artificial 
light  box  are  installed  against  a 
window  opening  to  the  north,  the 
artificial  light  box  as  arranged 
can  be  easily  swung  to  one  side 
when  daylight  is  employed.  The 
camera  and  light  box  used  is 
substantially  the  same  as  supplied 
with  the  Folmer  &  Schwing 
Printing  and  Enlarging  Cabinet, 
though  an  ordinary  view  camera, 
with  reversible  liack,  could  be 
sul^stituted.  The  light  box  con- 
tains a  single  tube  Cooper-Hewitt 
lamp,  and  is  so  hinged  as  to 
swing  to  one  side  out  of  the  way 
when  daylight  is  used.  See  Fig- 
ure 2. 


r ] 

Fijr.  ^       E-ND  Ble-vation  of 
Camera  and  .Standard  for  ^ame: 

Immediately  in  li-ont  of  the 
SAvinging  light  box  is  a  square 
cone  to  which  the  camera  proper 
is  attached — this  cone  contains 
three  ground  glass  diffusing 
screens  in  frames,  any  one  of 
which    may   be    removed    when 


necessary.  The  camera  and  light 
box  are  supported  on  a  table 
bi'acket,  as  shown  in  Figure  1 . 

( .  1 


-^ 


T\..,..^ 


unr 


Etnd   Etlevation  of- 

ErNLARClHG   APPARATUS 


The  paper  easel  is  suspended 
from  a  track  attached  to  string- 
ers fastened  to  the  ceiling.  The 
truck  or  carriage  carrying  the 
paper  easel  runs  on  roller  bear- 
ings, as  shown  in  Figure  3.  The 
carriage  locks  on  the  track,  by 
means  of  a  simple  spring,  at  any 
point  when  stopped,  and  is  re- 
leased by  a  slight  dowiiAvard 
pull  on  a  lever  just  back  of  the 


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FROM  AN  ANGELO  SEPIA  PLATINIM  PRINT 
By  Frank  E.  Ihcni  Gninil  Ji(ucli(in,  Colo. 


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STUDIO    LIGHT    and 


papt-r  board,  wht-n  necessary  to 
move  for  focusing. 

When  a  camera  Avithout  shift- 
ing and  tilting  movements  is  used 
it  is  a  simple  matter  to  adjust  the 
copy  board  for  both  vertical  and 
side  adjustments  as  well  as  for- 
ward and  back  swing. 

The  above  apparatus  has  af- 
forded perfect  satisfaction,  as  it 
is  not  liable  to  get  out  of  order, 
takes  up  but  little  floor  si:)ace,  and 
is  simple  to  construct  and  econ- 
omical in  operation. 


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RE  YOU  A   GOOD 
G  U  E  S  S  E  R  .? 


The  Photographers  Associa- 
tion of  America,  in  order  to  still 
further  stimulate  the  interest  in 
the  coming  National  Convention 
at  Rochester,  offers  an  award  of 
twenty-five  dollars  to  the  mem- 
ber of  the  Association  making  the 
nearest  guess  to  the  paid  mem- 
bership at  Rochester  during  the 
convention.  All  estimates  to  be 
sent  to  G.  W.  Harris,  Secy., 
1311  F  Street  N.  W.,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  and  the  contest  posi- 
tively closes  July  seventeenth. 
Guesses  arriving  after  that  date 
will  not  be  considered.  There 
are  about  1 5 ,000  professional  pho- 
tographers in  the  United  States 
and  all  indications  point  to  a 
record  breaking  attendance  at 
Rochester. 

Here's  luck. 


THE  29TH  ANNUAL 
CONVENTION 
P.  A.  OF  A. 

The  place:  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
the  photographic  manufacturing 
center.  The  date:  Jul}' 1 9th.  to 
S^th.  inclusive,  an  ideal  time  to 
leave  j^our  business  for  a  few  days. 
Come  prepared  to  stay  all  week. 
Something  doing  every  moment. 

Do  you  know  that  this  prom- 
ises to  be  the  most  successful 
convention  in  the  history  of  the 
P.  A.  of  A.?  Why?  We  meet 
this  year  in  the  most  interesting 
city  for  photographers  in  the 
world.  We  will  have  the  choicest 
collection  of  pictures,  the  most 
artistically  arranged  display,  the 
most  instructive  school,  the  most 
interesting  program  with  more 
new  features  added,  and  the  best 
time  the  photographers  have 
ever  had  the  opportunity  of  en- 
joying at  a  convention. 

The  photographic  interests  of 
Rochester  extend  to  you  a  hearty 
Avelcome  and  promise  a  week  of 
entertainment  and  instructive 
sight  seeing  that  will  be  a  revel- 
ation to  many.  Do  not  miss  it. 
The  Rochester  section  of  the  P. 
P.  S.  of  New  York  will  conduct 
a  Bureau  of  Information  in  con- 
vention hall,  with  messenger  ser- 
vice to  look  after  the  wants  of 
those  attending. 

Your  officers  would  advise  mak- 
ing hotel  reservation  early,  and 
if  any  desire  rooms  other  than 
those  listed  in  circulars  sent  out 


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recently,  a  request,  stating  what 
price  room  you  wish,  to  Mr.  J. 
E.  Mock,  Rochester,  N.Y.,will 
secure  for  you  just  what  is 
wanted. 

It  is  important  dues  be  paid 
and  ncAV  memi:)ersliii)s  be  issued 
early.  Attend  to  it  NOW,  TO- 
DAY. Your  treasurer  and  his  as- 
sistants vill  be  busy  at  the  con- 
vention and  if  you  wait  until  you 
reach  the  box  office  you  may  have 
to  stand  in  line  sometime  before 
you  can  secure  a  button  and  your 
receipt. 

This  delay  can  be  avoided  and 
you  can  materially  assist  the 
treasm'er  by  making  remittance 
now.  Official  receipt  and  mem- 
bership button  will  be  sent  to 
you  by  return  mail. 

If  already  a  member  with  dues 
paid  for  1908,  send  82.00  to 
Treasurer  L.  A.  Dozer,  Bucyrus, 
Ohio.  If  you  have  no  member- 
ship in  the  Association,  send 
$5.00,  83.00  membership  fee  and 
$2 . 00  dues  for  1 909 .  Employees 
and  dealers  or  their  representa- 
tives hold  associate  membership. 
82.00  per  annum,  no  membership 
fee.  In  making  remittance  by 
check,  add  ten  cents  for  collec- 
tion. 

Anj'  other  information  concern- 
ing the  Photographers  Associa- 
tion of  America  or  the  coming 
Rochester  Convention  will  be 
gladly  furnished  upon  request. 
L.  A.  Dozer, 

Treasurer  P.  A.  of  A. 


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OW  TO  BE  IN  THE 
MONEY 


We  are  going  to  spend  two 
thousand  dollars  for  phot(jgraphs 
this  fall,  and  we  hope  to  be  able  to 
spend  quite  a  few  dollars  more 
for  the  same  purpose.  The  two 
thousand  dollars  prize  money  for 
our  1909  Kodak  Advertising  Con- 
test will  be  charged  against  ex- 
pense, and  we  naturally  want  to 
oljtain  the  most  we  can  for  our 
money.  In  our  previous  contests 
we  have  found  a  number  of  pic- 
tures outside  the  prize  winners 
that  we  were  willing  to  pay  a 
good  sum  for,  and  we  are  hoping 
that  the  I909  Contest  will  dis- 
close double  the  quantity  the 
previous  contests  made  a\  ailable. 
Nothing  Avould  please  us  better 
than  to  ha\ e  e\ery  entrj"  so  good 
as  to  stand  a  chance  as  a  prize 
winner.  In  the  two  preceding 
contests  quite  a  number  of  tech- 
nically excellent  photographs 
were  received  that  stood  no  pos- 
sible chance  of  being  considered, 
some  because  they  did  not  come 
within  the  limits  of  the  competi- 
tion, and  others  because  they 
lacked  the  power  to  convince  or 
attract. 

In  order  to  get  on  the  right 
track,  and  have  our  entries  stand 
at  least  a  fair  chance,  let  us  take 
up  a  subject  and  see  how  we 
would  work  it  out.  Suppose,  for 
instance,  we  wanted  to  produce  a 
picture  that  would  help  sell 
Kodak    Film    Tanks.     First,  we 


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STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


would  considfr  the  strung  selling 
points  of  the  Tank  —  the  entire 
operation  in  full  daylight,  anj" 
time,  any  place — simplicity,  no 
previous  experience  in  develop- 
ment necessary  to  secure  good 
results — portability,  so  small  and 
compact  as  to  be  readily  trans- 
ported anywhere.  Having  con- 
sidered these  points  let  us  attempt 
a  picture  showing  the  tank  in  use. 
In  selecting  the  subject  to  operate 
the  tank  Ave^have  the  choice  of 
men,  women,  young  or  old.  and 
children.  The  time  worn  phrase, 
"so  simple  a  child  can  use  it," 
will  perhaps  flash  into  your  mind. 

While  it  is  true  that  a  child 
of  seven  or  eight  could  be  taught 
to  use  the  tank  successfully, 
the  percentage  of  children  of 
that  age  interested  in  photog- 
raphy is  very  small,  so  a  picture 
with  a  child  of  that  age  using 
the  tank  would  lack  conviction. 
A  boy  or  girl  of  from  twelve  to 
fourteen  would  be  better,  but  as 
most  of  these  youngsters 
are  using  Brownie  Cameras  it 
would  be  better  to  use  them  in 
making  a  picture  showing  the 
use  of  the  Brownie  Developing 
Box. 

Next  in  selection  we  have 
young  men  and  women.  In  turn- 
ing over  the  advertising  pages  in  a 
magazine,  a  good  many  of  us  will 
stop  to  look  at  a  picture  of  a 
manl}^  young  man,  but  every  one 
of  us  will  pause  to  insjject  the 
picture  of  a  comely  young  woman . 
It  thus  appearing  that  the  comely 


young  Avoman  would  be  the 
strongest  factor  in  first  arresting 
the  eye,  let  us  use  her. 

Fortunately,  attractive  girls 
are  to  be  found  anywhere,  so  we 
wont  have  much  trouble  there. 
Now  if  she  is  a  girl  with  sufficient 
intelligence  to  enjoy  picture  mak- 
ing, there  are  a  few  things  she 
would  not  do: 

When  she  was  preparing  to  de- 
velop her  film  in  the  tank,  she 
Mould  not  don  an  evening  gown, 
with  low  neck  and  short  sleeves, 
but  she  Avould  wear  some  of  her 
common  every daj'  clothes,  and 
being  careful,  would  don  a  good 
long  apron  of  gingham  or  some 
other  fabric  known  best  to 
womankind, — and  further,  hav- 
ing due  respect  for  the  household 
gods,  she  would  not  select  the 
shining  mahogany  table  in  the 
jjarlor  to  develoj)  on — quite  true, 
she  could  develop  on  the  mahog- 
any table  and  not  get  a  spot  on 
it  — but  she  wouldn't  use  it  just 
the  same,  and  if  you  saw  an  ad- 
vertisement with  her  all  "fussed 
up"  in  an  evening  gown,  and  us- 
ing the  mahogany  table,  you 
Avould  mentally  exclaim  "fake" — 
"just  posing."  and  no  matter  how 
strong  the  argument  in  type  ac- 
companying the  picture,  you 
would  not  be  convinced. 

This  one  illustration  will  serve 
as  well  as  a  dozen  in  demonstrat- 
ing the  points  necessary  in  pic- 
ture making  to  be  used  for  ad- 
vertising purposes. 

First,  the  picture  must  possess 


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FROM  AN  ANGELO  SEPIA  PLATINUM  PRINT 
By  Frank  E.  Dean  Gnind  J\inrtion,  Cnlo. 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


the  power  in  lieautj'  or  strength 
to  arrest  attention. 

Second,  it  must  create  an  in- 
terest in  or  desire  for  the  goods 
advertised. 

Third,  it  must  be  simple  and 
natural ,  —  simple  because  its  story 
must  be  told  at  the  first  glance, 
and  natural  in  order  to  convince. 

Just  good  landscapes  or  good 
portraits  are  not  suitable  for  use 
in  our  advertising.  The  pictures 
must  tell  a  story  and  tell  it  sim- 
ply, quickly  and  convincingly. 
Beautj'  is  not  absolutely  essential, 
but  wholesome  attractiveness  is 
—  and  above  all  naturalness. 

When  you  are  planning  your 
pictures,  stop  and  consider  would 
this  picture  attract  or  convince 
me — would  it  help  to  sell  me  the 
goods,  then  l^oil  it  down  to  the 
last  degree  of  simplicity,  and  you 
stand  a  good  chance  of  being  "in 
the  monev." 


B 


E  COMFORTABLE 


TF  you  have 
not  engaged 
accommodations 
for  Convention 
Week 


Do  It  No 


w 


Phew,  it's  hot — thank 
goodness  my  work  imder  the  light 
is  done  for  this  day,  and  if  it 
wasn't  for  all  those  plates  to  de- 
velop I  could  take  Mary  and  the 
kiddies  and  get  out  into  the 
country  for  a  breath  of  air.  Hang 
this  dark  room  work,  anyhow — 
yet  it's  got  to  be  done  or  no 
plates  to  proof  in  the  morning. 

How  many  times  have  just 
such  thoughts  pop])ed  into  your 
head  during  the  stifling  midsum- 
mer days?  Some  of  you  still  ha^•e 
to  think  and  suffer  that  way  — 
but  what  is  the  use,  when  the 
remedy  is  so  easy.''  Here  is  how 
our  fi-iend  Mr.  L.  E.  Webb,  of 
Morgantown,   N.   C,  works   it: 

"  Recently  I  photograjjhed  a 
large  graduating  class  individ- 
ually, and  by  tanking  each  dozen 
l)lates  as  exposed,  when  I  had 
completed  exposing,  all  my  plates 
were  developed  and  fixed,  ex- 
cept the  last  dozen.  The  convcn- 
i''?ice  of  tlie  tank  in  one  large 
bunch  of  work  will  more  than  pay 
fur  it/ 

Let  the  tank  do  the  drudgery 
— it  will  not  only  protect  you 
from  dark  room  discomforts,  but 
dark  room  accidents  as  well,  and 
l^roduce  uniform  negatives  of  any 
printing  qualitj'  you  desire. 

Let  the  tank  do  the  work. 


Keep  posted  on  the  Eastman 
School  of  Professional  Photography 
— read  the  bulletin  on  page  24. 


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THE  ONLY  CON- 
DI T I  O  xN 

We  make  but  one  condi- 
tion in  our  offer  of  cuts  for 
the  use  of  photographers. 

It  is  obvious  that  two 
photographers  in  the  same 
toAVTi  would  not  care  to  use 
the  same  cut,  and  we  are 
therefore  obHged  to  limit 
this  offer  to  one  photogra- 
pher in  a  town.  It  will  be 
a  case  of  first  come  first 
served.  The  first  order 
from  a  city  Avill  be  promptly 
filled.  Succeeding  orders  (if 
any)  will  necessarily  be 
turned  doAvn  and  the  re- 
mittance, of  course,  will  be 
returned.  It  is  also  obvious 
that  we  cannot,  on  account 
of  the  cost  of  the  drawings, 
furnish  any  large  variety  of 
cuts  at  the  nominal  prices 
quoted,  and  therefore  can 
offer  no  substitute  cut.  The 
thing  to  do  is  to  get  your 
order  injirst,  as  it  would  not 
be  fair  to  give  the  man  who 
happens  to  get  in  his  order 
earl}'  one  month,  a  permanent 
advantage;  Ave  shall  book  no 
orders  in  advance.  The}' 
must  always  specify  the  num- 
ber of  cut  desired.  If  later 
on  it  develops  that  there  is 
a  great  enough  demand  for 
these  advertising  cuts  to  war- 
rant our  furnishing  a  larger 
variety,  we  shall  be  glad  to 
do  so.        c\  K.  Co..  Ltd. 


Children  at  the  "awk- 
ward age?"  Still  we 
can  make  pretty  good 
photographs  of  them, 
and  you  know  you'd 
like  to  have  the  pic- 
tures to  send  away 
and  some  to  keep  for 
yourself  too. 

Bring  t/ie  eliildren  In  <iiul  let 
ns  s/ion-  i/oii  n'hat  ire  ran  do. 

The  Pyho  Stljdio 


No.  \\i 


24 


STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


rpo  GET  MORE 

-*-  Some  man  who  knew  what 
he  was  talking  about  said: 
"When  business  is  good,  adver- 
tise some  to  get  more;  when 
business  is  bad,  advertise  more 
to  get  some." 

That  is  really  the  secret  of 
successful  advertising  —  keep  at 
it.  A  good  show  case  display 
helps  a  lot,  but  every  one  in  your 
town  does  not  pass  it,  but  prac- 
tically every  one  who  has  money 
to  spend  reads  the  local  news- 
papers. Even  an  extra  good  ad- 
vertisement displayed  but  once 
prodvices  but  a  slight  impression, 
but  repeated  again  and  again  it 
begins  to  get  a  grip  on  its  readers 
and  soon  people  are  beginning  to 
wonder  what  sort  of  pictures  you 
do  make,  and  go  a  little  out  of 


their  Avay  to  see  what  your  show 
case  contains.  Then  j'ou  com- 
mence to  get  results — and  "  when 
business  is  good,  advertise  some 
to  get  more. "  Keep  everlastingly 
at  it  —  tell  your  public  in  the 
newspapers  that  they  want  — 
need  —  good  pictures,  and  that 
your  studio  is  the  place  to  olitain 
them.  You  have  a  chance  with 
every  member  of  the  femily  from 
grandpa  down  to  the  baby. 

Our  series  of  cuts  for  studio 
advertising  have  made  a  hit. 
Practically  every  photographer 
Avho  ordered  the  first  one  has 
ordered  the  later  ones,  and  the 
list  grows  longer  each  month. 
Get  in  step  with  the  progressive 
and   "get  more.'' 

The  cut  on  page  23  will  be  sent 
you  on  recei])t  of  thirty  cents 
— and  it's  first  come,  first  served. 


B 


U  L  L  E  T  I  X  :   THE  EASTMAN  SCHOOL  OF 
PROFESSIONAL  PHOTOGRAPHY  FOR  1909 


Auspices  John  W.  Graham  &  Co.,  Spokane,  Wash.,  July  7,  8,  9- 
Auspices  Robt.  Dempster  Co.,  Omaha,  Neb.,  July  15,  l6,  17. 

Auspices  Memphis  Photo  Supply  Co.,  Memphis,  Tenn..  July 
20,  21,  22. 

Auspices  Des  Moines  Photo  Materials  Co.,  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
July  27,  28,  29. 

Auspices  Mullett  Bros.  Photo  Supply  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
August  3,  4,  5. 

Northwestern  Photog.  Convention,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  September 
2,  3,  4. 

Auspices  Durtin  cS:  Co.,  Winnipeg,  Man.,  September  8,  9,  10. 


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LAST  CALL 

FOR  ROCHESTER 

If  you  want  to  accompany  one 
of  the  special  parties  to  the  Na- 
tional Convention  at  Rochester, 
July  19  to  24,  write  the  org-an- 
izer  in  your  territory  to-day  for 
information  and  reservations. 

Boston,  Mass. 

ROBEY-FRENCH  CO. 

New  York  C'itj' 

C.  F.  BECKER,  2:55  W.  23d  St. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

JOHN  HAWORTH  COMPANY 

Columbus.  O. 

EMPIRE  PHOTO  SUPPLY  CO. 

Chicago  111. 

SWEET,  WALLACH  &  CO. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

W.  SCHH.LER  &  CO. 

ST.  LOUIS-HYATT  PHOTO  SUPPLY  CO. 

Kansas  Citj',  Mo. 

Z.  T.  BRIGGS   PHOTO   SUPPLY  CO. 
KANSAS  CITY  PHOTO  SUPPLY  CO. 

Omaha,  Neh. 

THE  ROBERT  DEMPSTER  CO. 

St.  Paul,  Minn. 

ZIMMERMAN  BROS. 

Minneapolis,  Minn. 

O.  H.  PECK  COMPANY 


26  S  T  L  D  I  O   L I  G  H  T  rt  « f/ 

The  best  of  everything 
for  use  in  the  Studio 


A  complete  line  of 

Canadian  Kodak  Co. 's 
Plates,  Papers  and 
Tested  Chemicals. 

Canadian  Card  Co.'s 
Mounts 

Century  Studio  Ap- 
paratus. 


The  D.  H.  Hogg  Company 

MONTREAL,  CANADA 


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Commer- 
cial 

Arts  to 
Platino 


ROLLS 

10  ft.  Roll  241, 
ins.  wide.  .§1.95 

5  yd.  Roll  241 7 
ins.  wide.. 82.80 

10  yd.  Roll  241^2 
ins.  wide.  .85.15 

( Furnished  only 
in  241,  inch 
widths.) 


Canadian 
Kodak 

Co.,  Limited 
Toronto,  Can. 


Per             Per 

Per 

Per 

Size              ?  J  Doz.       Doz. 

K  Gross 

Gross 

2I4X2I4 

$  .15 

$  .60 

$1.05 

2i,x2i, 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

2I4X3I4 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

214x31, 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

2I4X334 

.15 

.(;o 

1.05 

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.15 

.60 

1.10 

3      x4 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

31 ,  x  31/, 

.15 

.70 

i.;jo 

314  X  414 

.15 

.70 

1.30 

31 ,  X  4 

.15 

.70 

1.30 

24x7 

.18 

.75 

4     x4 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

414  X  414 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

3I4X6 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

34x51/2 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

4     x5 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

37-8  X  51/ 

.25 

.95 

1.75 

3'sx5?8 

.30 

1.10 

1.95 

44x51/2 

.30 

1.10 

1.95 

4      x6 

.25 

.95 

1.75 

4I4  X  6I4 

.30 

1.30 

2.25 

434  X  61/2 

.30 

1.50 

2.60 

4     x9 

.35 

1.75 

2.85 

5x7 

.35 

1.70 

2.75 

5     X  71^, 

.35 

1.80 

3.00 

5x8" 

.35 

1.80 

3.15 

51, X  734 

.40 

1.95 

3.45 

3I2  X  12 

.35 

1.90 

6     x8 

.45 

2.30 

4".  10 

61 ',  X  8I/2 

.50 

2.50 

4.40 

7      x9 

.55 

2.85 

5.15 

71/2  X  91/2 

.60 

3.20 

6.00 

8      xlO 

.65 

3.60 

6.70 

9      xll 

8.70 

10    xl2 

'.            .95 

5.40 

10.30 

11    xl4         $ 

65       1.25 

7.20 

13.45 

12    xl5 

80       1.40 

8.50 

16.00 

14    xl7           1 

00       1.90 

10.80 

20.65 

16    x20           1 

30       2.50 

14.80 

27.90 

17    x20           1 

40       2.75 

15.45 

29.95 

18    x22           1 

65       3.15 

18.00 

35.15 

20    x24           1 

95       3.60 

21.15 

41.30 

28 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


If  you  don't  use  the 
Kodak  tested  chemicals 
for  your  work  we  shall 
both  lose  money — but 
you'll  lose  the  most. 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE  29 


ROYAL 
NEPERA 

Pure  White 


The  developing  paper 
that  forgets  to  curl. 


Canadian 

Kodak 

Co. 

Lid. 

Toronto, 
Canada 


30 


STUDIO  LIGHT  a7,d 


THE  EASTMAN 

PLATE  TANK 

Is  Constructed  Right. 

The  simple  loading  device  permits  the  loading  of 
the  plates  into  the  rack  in  a  few  seconds,  without 
scratching  or  marring. 

The  air-tig-Jit.  locking  cover  allows  the  whole  tank 
to  be  reversed — no  Ji.shing  the  plate  raeli  out  of  the 
solut'toyi  during-  development  —  and  the  hand  on  the 
dial  tells  you  when  development  will  be  completed. 

Eastman  Plate  Tank,  5x7,         -  $  4.50 

Eastman  Plate  Tank,  8x  10,       -  10.00 

Canadian  Kodak  Co.,  Ltd. 

Toronto,  Canada 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE  31 

Canadian  Made  for  the 
Canadian  Professional 


Seed,  Royal  and  Stanley 
Plates 

Canadian  Card  Co.'s 
Mounts 

Canadian  Kodak  Co.'s 
Tested  Chemicals 

Canadian  Made  Papers 


J.  G.  Ramsey  &  Co.,  limited 

Toronto,  Canada 


32 


STUDIO    LKi  HT    and 


It  is  Sure  to  Make  a  Hit 

With  Your  Half-Cabinet  Work 


fl& 


The  Colhijkite  Sti/h 


You  have  no  idea  how  nifty  a  print  looks  when  mounted  on  the 
Collegiate  Style.  It  is  made  of  medium  weight  stock,  linen  finish 
with  bevelled  edges.  The  Design  and  Crest  are  brought  up  in  colors 
to  harmonize  with  the  stock,  and  it  is  bound  to  be  a  jiopular  seller 
among  the  college  trade.  It  is  a  good  style  to  work  during  the  quiet 
months  and  you  should  not  fail  to  see  samples.  jNIade  in  two  colors, 
Cream  White  and  Artist's  Brown. 

Sample  mailed  on  receipt  of  one  2-cent  stamp 
Price  List  Size  for  Photos       Size  Outside        Price  per  100 

H.     1^4  X  :?'  >  Oval  3'  i  x  8>  i  Sl.^5 

B.     ':  Cabinet  Oval      3"s  x  8^4  1-Sn 

t;. '_>  Cabinet  Square    5      x  QM  1.75 

THE  CANADIAN  CARD  CO. 

T  C)  I!  O  X  T  O,  C  A  N  A  DA 


Aristo  Motto 


'"1  ^  fE  believe  permanency  is  the 
^  '  Keijstone  of  Photographic, 
Sttccess,  and  all  brands  of  paper 
bearing  ovir  Trade-mark  are  manu- 
factured on  this  principle.  We  hold 
our  consumer's  reputation  and  suc- 
cess identical  with  our  own.  We 
surround  both  with  every  safe- 
guard known  to  chemical  science 
and  our  own  experience." 


FROM  A  FIRST  PRIZE  PRINT  ON  COLLODIO-CARBON 
By  C.  L.  Venard  Lincoln,  Ills. 


V7 


L^ll 


an 


a  the  ^^RIkS^O  ]^:?^GI^]^ 


A  Magazine   of    Information    for   the   Profession 


N  EW   SERIES 

Vol.  1    No.  fi 


AUGUST  1909 


OLD    SERIES 

No. 103 


THE    BUSINESS   OF 
THE  CONVENTION 

The  business  meetings  of  the 
twenty-ninth  annual  Convention 
of  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  were  car- 
ried out  strictly  according  to  pro- 
gram and  with  a  large  and  highly 
intei-ested  attendance  at  every 
session. 

The  first  official  meeting  on 
the  program  was  the  assembling 
of  the  State  Representatives  for 
the  First  Congress  of  Photog- 
raphy, and  as  the  sessions  of 
this  bod}'  were  distinct  from  the 
regular  meetings  of  the  P.  A. 
of  A.,  they  will  be  dealt  with 
separately  in  this  report. 

The  first  regvilar  session  of  the 
P.  A.  of  A.,  was  called  to  order 
promptly  at  9  A-  m.  Tuesday 
morning,  July  20th,  in  the  As- 
sembly Hall  of  the  Seneca  Ho- 
tel, President  Frank  R.  Bar- 
rows presiding,  the  order  of 
business  being  as  follows : 

Address  of  Welcome,  Mayor  Hiram 

H.  Edgerton,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Greeting,   Edward  G.  Miner,  Pres. 

Rochester  Chamber  of  Commerce 

Response,      .     .    Charles  L.  Lewis, 

Toledo,  Ohio 


Reading  of  Communications, 

Geo.  W.  Harris,  Sec'y, 
Washington,  D.  C. 
President's   Report,  Frank   R.  Bar- 
rows, Boston,  Mass. 
Appointment  of  Committees 
Announcements 

Mayor  Edgerton  in  his  most 
happy  manner  cordially  wel- 
comed the  members,  and  in 
closing  said,  '  In  behalf  of  all 
our  citizens  I  extend  to  you  a 
most  cordial  and  hearty  welcome, 
and  the  freedom  of  our  city.  Go 
wheie  you  will,  I  am  sure  you 
will  be  welcome." 

Mayor  Edgerton  was  followed 
by  Mr.  Edward  G.  Miner,  the 
President  of  the  Rochester 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  who 
spoke  of  the  immense  photo- 
grajjhic  interests  of  the  citj', 
and  their  close  connection  with 
and  importance  to  the  visiting 
members,  and  closed  by  \\ishing 
the  members  the  best  of  good 
times  and  inviting  them  to  come 
again. 

In  response  to  the  greetings 
Charles  L.  Lewis,  of  Toledo, 
Ohio,  made  a  brief  address  in 
which  he  said  he  was  sorrj-  for 
any  photographer  who  could  not 
be  present  at  this  convention .  and 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


expressed  the  hope  that  more 
members  for  the  national  body 
might  result  from  this  conven- 
tion. 

Letters  were  read  bj'  Secre- 
tary George  W.  Harris,  from 
Past  Presidents  George  M.  Ed- 
mondson,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
W.  H.  Potter  of  Indianapolis, 
Ind. 

President  Frank  R.  Barrows, 
then  delivered  his  annual  ad- 
dress, saying  in  part: 

"For  so  many  years  have  you  hon- 
ored me  with  a  seat  on  your  execu- 
tive bt)ard  and  for  so  many  years 
have  I  had  the  pleasure  of  greeting 
you  at  our  conventions,  that  I  feel 
as  if  we  were  now  one  large  family. 
And  in  truth,  we  are  in  many  ways 
like  one  large  family.  Growing  up 
year  by  year,  we,  the  children  often 
drift  apart  in  our  ideas  and  beliefs, 
but  whatever  our  aim,  we  all  still 
hold  to  our  parent,  the  grand  old 
P.  A.  of  A. 

"Like  a  family,  as  we,  the  chil- 
dren, grow  older,  we  think  we  are 
even  wiser  than  our  parent,  and 
sometimes  are  apt  to  class  her  as 
old-fashioned  and  not  vip-to-date, 
and  we  seek  means  whereby  to 
change  her  attitude  so  that  we,  poor 
foolish  children,  need  not  feel  that 
shame  that  we  falsely  assume  when 
we  parade  under  her  wing. 

"Yes,  we  are  indeed,  but  brothers 
and  sisters  after  all. 

"Associations,  such  as  this,  which 
usually  find  outward  expression  in 
annual  conventions,  are  of  two  kinds 
or  rather  are  formed  to  serve  one  or 
two  purposes,  protective  and  educa- 
tive. 

"The  old  N.  P.  A.,  the  predeces- 
sor of  this  association  was  originally 
protective,  formed  by  photogra- 
phers to  fight  obnoxious  patent  laws 


and  rights.  The  P.  A.  of  A.,  was 
formed,  after  the  lapse  of  the  old 
society,  to  carry  on  the  work  of  ed- 
ucation, combined  with  the  spirit  of 
brotherhood.  That  the  P.  A.  of  A., 
has  been  led  right,  or,  at  least,  has 
not  been  led  wrong,  is  shown  by  the 
steady  onward  progress  as  recorded 
by  the  history  of  the  society.  Twen- 
ty years  back  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  was 
stronger  than  when  first  started. 
Ten  years  ago  it  was  again  stronger 
in  membership  and  financial  resource 
than  it  was  in  the  previous  decade, 
and  to-day,  nearly  thirty  years  after 
its  foundation,  theP.  A.of  A., shows 
us  the  largest  gathering  of  photog- 
raphers and  manufacturers  that  has 
ever  assembled  since  the  day  Da- 
guerre  first  iodized  a  silver  plate  and 
made  the  first  permanent  photo- 
graph. 

"As  old-fashioned  as  some  of  we 
children  imagine  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  to 
be,  it  still  has  the  vitality  that  bids 
fair  to  outlive  us  and  our  works  as 
it  has  already  outlived  many  an- 
other good  photographer. 

"But  let  me  return  to  the  family 
simile  and  carrj-  it  a  little  further. 
In  its  younger  days  the  P.  A.  of  A., 
stood  alone.  As  its  children  grew 
older  and  wandered  afield  they  too 
reared  families  of  their  own.  Some 
prospered,  for  they  were  founded  on 
good  fellov>-ship  and  mutual  helpful- 
ness. Some  were  unfortunate  and 
while  yet  alive,  led  but  a  dragging 
existence.  The  younger  children, 
profiting  by  the  mistakes  and  fail- 
ures of  their  elders,  founded  fami- 
lies on  new  lines  and  their  more 
youthful  energy  and  more  modern 
viewpoint  has  led  them  to  success 
where  some  of  the  older  families 
have  reaped  disappointment. 

"But  while  there  has  been  friend- 
ship, there  has  been  no  union  of 
these  various  family  groups.  Each 
individual  family  has  gone  its  own 
way.  M'hat  the  one  has  found  good 
has  been   condemned  by  another. 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


There  has  been  an  interchange  of 
ideas  and  courtesy,  but  the  mutual 
helpfulness,  the  spirit  of  'one  for 
all  and  all  for  one'  has  been  lack- 
ing. While  each  family  was  work- 
ing for  its  own  good,  the  progress 
of  the  whole  united  family  has  Deen 
unheeded.  Yet,  in  each  family  there 
have  been  members  that  have 
thought  and  reasoned  seriously. 
They  believed  sincerely  in  their  own 
families  but  they  believed  too,  that 
the  times  demanded  a  real  family  re- 
union, making  for  a  stronger  family, 
one  that  would  have  such  influence 
and  power  that  the  progress  and  wel- 
fare of  each  individual  family  mem- 
ber would  be  enhanced  to  a  degree 
not  attainable  with  the  limited 
power  of  the  smaller  isolated  fam- 
ily. Louder  and  louder  became 
such  expressions  of  belief  that  a  re- 
union of  the  whole  family  seems  ex- 
pedient. And  who  has  greater  right 
to  bring  about  such  a  reunion,  than 
the  parent  of  them  all,  the  P.  A. 
of  A." 

Mr.  Barrows  also  spoke  regard- 
ing the  plans  and  aims  of  the 
Congress  of  Photography,  and 
the  advantages  of  forming  a  fed- 
eration of  local  photographers 
societies;  he  also  stated  the 
necessity  for  a  revision  of  the 
constitution  of  the  P.  A.  of  A. 

The  report  was  ordered  spread 
on  the  minutes,  and  a  vote  of 
thanks  was  tendered  him  as 
President. 

The  appointment  of  commit- 
tees followed.  President  Barrows 
named  these  committees: 

Improvements— W.  H.  Rau, 
Philadelphia;  W.  H.  Koehne, 
Chicago;  George  J.  Parrott, 
Fort  Wayne,  Ind. ;  W.  F.  Oliver, 
Baldwinsville,  Mass. 


Resolutions  —  C.  W.  Hearn, 
Boston;  H.  B.  Medlar,  Wood- 
stock, 111. ;  E.  E.  Seavey,  New- 
castle, Pa. 

Academy — C.  W.  Hearn,  Bos- 
ton; Cr.  W.  Harris,  Washington, 
D.  C. ;  J.  W.  Appleton,  Day- 
ton, O. 

After  the  adjournment  of  the 
morning  session  the  members  pro- 
ceeded to  Convention  Hall  to 
attend  a  demonstration  at  the 
School  of  Photography  by  F. 
Milton  Somers  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.  The  room  set  aside  for  the 
school  Mas  crowded  to  the  doors, 
many  of  the  photograi)hers  stand- 
ing through  the  entire  session, 
as  the  demonstration  was  of  ab- 
sorbing interest. 

In  the  afternoon  the  visiting 
ladies  were  tendered  an  outing 
on  Jrondequoit  Bay  by  the  Roch- 
ester Section  of  the  N.  Y.  State 
Association.  A  most  enjoyable 
time  was  had,  all  returning  in 
ample  time  for  the  evening  ses- 
sion. 

At  3  p.  M.  the  second  session 
of  the  Congress  of  Photography 
was  held,  the  plans  and  action  to 
be  reported  to  the  P.  A.  of  A., 
at  the  evening  session. 

At  8  p.  M.  the  second  session 
of  the  Convention  was  held  at 
Assembly  Hall,  President  Bar- 
rows presiding.  This  session  was 
devoted  to  the  report  of  the  Con- 
gress of  Photography,  which  will 
be  taken  up  later  in  this  article, 
and  to  a  discussion  of  the  Con- 
stitution and  Bv-Laws  of  Associa- 


I 


6 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


tion ;  the  Constitution,  as  amend- 
ed, will  be  found  in  fiill  in  the 
report  of  Fridaj^'s  session. 

Wednesday  was  set  apart  as 
"Manufacturers  and  Dealer's 
Day, "  no  regular  sessions  of  the 
Convention  being  held.  This  daj^ 
was  devoted  to  visiting  the  vari- 
ous photographic  factories,  in- 
cluding Kodak  Park,  as  detailed 
in  the  reprint  from  the  Rochester 
Herald  in  other  columns. 

In  the  evening  the  photog- 
ra})hers  were  entertained  bj"  illus- 
trated lectures  by  Ryland  W. 
Phillips  of  Pittsburg  and  Ger- 
trude Kasebier  of  New  York. 

The  next  regular  session  of 
the  Convention  was  called  to 
order  a  little  after  9  a.  m.  Thurs- 
day, July  22,  in  Assembly  Hall, 
President  Barrows  presiding. 
The  order  of  business  was  as  fol- 
lows : 

Secretary's  Report. 

Treasurer's  Report. 

Report  of  Committees. 

Appointment  of  Committee  on 
Location. 

Appointment  of  Committee  on 
Election. 

Annoimcements. 

The  report  of  the  Secretary, 
George  W.  Harris,  showed  all  affairs 
in  his  department  to  be  in  a  highly 
satisfactory  condition. 

Treasurer  Dozer  was  applauded 
when  he  took  the  platform  to  give 
his  report.  He  complimented  the 
association  and  Mr.  Barrows  on  the 
neatness  of  the  books  and  the  busi- 
ness like  manner  in  which  the  office 
had  been  conducted.  i\Ir.  Barrows 
was  formerly  treasurer  of  the  organi- 
zation. 

Mr.  Dozer  said  that  the  funds  are 


now  divided  in  two  banks  to  prevent 
severe  loss  in  case  of  a  bank  failure. 

The  treasurer's  report  was  as  fol- 
lows: 
Cash   on    hand    Jan.    1, 

1908  .  .  .     $4,838.19 

Received  from  Secretary  3,647.00 
Membership  and  dues  .  2,047.00 
Ladies'  pins  .         .  31.50 

Total  .         .         .  $10,610.59 

Disbursements  .  .  5,911.95 
Cash  on  hand  .         .     $4,698.64 

The  following  committee  on 
location  for  the  next  convention 
was  appointed  as  follows :  George 
B.  Sperrj",  Toledo;  Charles 
Townsend,  Des  Moines,  Iowa; 
J.  H.  C.  Evanhoff,  Boston;  F. 
S.  Noble,  Rochester;  Schuyler 
Colfax,  Columbus. 

The  committee  on  elections 
was  named  as  follows :  Ryland 
W.  Phillips,  Philadelphia ;  George 
M.  Edmondson,  Cleveland,  O. ; 
Charles  W.  Hearn,  Boston, 
Mass. ;  C.  J.  Vanderventer,  Indi- 
anapolis, Ind. ;  Charles  Smith, 
Evanston,  111. 

After  the  appointment  of  these 
committees  and  the  reading  of 
routine  communications,  the 
meeting  was  adjourned  until  2  p. 
M . ,  at  which  time  a  special  meet- 
ing was  called  to  further  consider 
the  revision  of  the  Constitution 
and  By-Laws. 

The  Friday  morning  session 
was  called  to  order  at  9  a.  m.  in 
Assembly  Hall,  President  Bar- 
rows presiding.  This  was  an  im- 
portant session  as  it  included  the 
election  of  officers,  selection  of 
the  next  place  of  meeting,  the 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


appointment  of  committees,  and 
the  presentation  of  a  Life  Mem- 
bership Certificate  to  Past  Presi- 
dent Frank  W.  Medlar.  At  the 
opening  of  the  session  Secretary 
Harris  read  a  letter  from  Elias 
Goldensky  regretting  his  inability 
to  attend  on  account  of  a  death 
in  his  family.  On  a  motion  a  let- 
ter expressing  the  sjinpathy  of 
the  association  was  ordered  sent 
him 

William  H.  Rau  of  Philadel- 
phia followed  with  a  most  inter- 
esting paper  on  "The  Progress  of 
Photography,"  which  we  very 
much  regret  being  unable  to  re- 
print, owing  to  lack  of  space. 
Beautifully  engraved  certificates 
of  appreciation  for  work  done  in 
the  instruction  classes  at  last 
year's  convention  were  presented 
to  Elias  Goldensky  and  Rjland 
Phillips  of  Philadelphia;  John 
H.  Garo,  Boston;  Dudley  Hoyt, 
New  York;  W.  S.  Lively,  Mc- 
Minnville,  Tenn.,  and  M.  B. 
Parkinson,  of  Boston. 

Charles  Wesley  Hearn  reported 
for  the  committee  on  the  Acad- 
emy. He  stated  that  the  plans 
for  the  development  of  the  Acad- 
emy were  bemg  held  in  abejance, 
pending  the  outcome  of  the  fed- 
eration between  the  National 
and  State  bodies. 

The  presentation  of  the  Life 
Membership  Certificate  to  Frank 
W.  Medlar  of  Spencer,  Iowa,  was 
made  by  Charles  W.  Hearn  of 
Boston.  Mr.  Medlar's  appear- 
ance  on   the    platform    was   the 


signal  for  enthusiastic  applause. 
Mr.  Hearn  spoke  of  the  loyal 
service  given  to  the  association 
by  Mr.  Medlar  as  president  in 
1907  and  as  secretary  in  1905. 
Mr.  Hearn  said  that  Mr.  Medlar 
had  never  hesitated  in  sacrificing 
personal  interests  for  the  good 
of  the  association. 

Mr.  Medlar  accepted  the  honor 
in  a  few  well  chosen  Avords  of 
appreciation. 

The  report  of  the  committee 
on  constitution  and  bj-laws  was 
called  for,  but  was  put  over  until 
the  special  meeting.  The  x-eport 
of  the  committee  on  resolutions 
was  put  over  until  the  final  ses- 
sion . 

The  report  of  the  committee 
on  location  for  the  next  conven- 
tion was  the  signal  for  general 
discussion.  The  report  Avas  read 
byC.  F.  Townsend  of  DesMoines, 
la.,  in  the  absence  of  Chairman 
George  Sperry  of  the  committee. 
The  report  recommended  unani- 
mously Milwaukee,  Wis.,  for  the 
next  gathering.  This  city  was 
recommended  in  competition 
with  Niagara  Falls,  Atlantic  City, 
N.  J.,  and  Richmond,  Va. 

Secretary  Harris  read  commu- 
nications fi'om  other  cities,  ask- 
ing for  the  convention.  They 
were  from  Mobile,  Ala. ,  Saratoga 
Springs,  Cedar  Point,  Ohio,  New 
Orleans,  La.,  Atlantic  Citj-,  N. 
J.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Mr.  Parkinson  of  Boston  advo- 
cated Milwaukee.  The  swish  of 
fashionable  skirts  and  the  swash 


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of  the  waves  at  Atlantic  City, 
he  held,  would  not  be  conducive 
to  close  stud}'  of  photograph}- . 

It  was  moved  that  a  single 
ballot  be  cast  for  Milwaukee. 
This  was  carried  without  a  dis- 
senting vote.  Cheers  greeted  the 
selection. 

The  report  of  the  committee 
on  nominations,  of  which  Mr. 
Phillips  was  chairman,  was  pre- 
sented. It  recommended  the 
following  men  for  office:  Presi- 
dent, A.  T.  Proctor,  Hunting- 
ton, W.  Va. ;  first  vice  presi- 
dent, George  W.  Harris, 
Washington,  D.  C. ;  second  vice 
president,  Benj.  Larrimer,  Mar- 
ion, Ind. ;  secretary,  J.  H.  C. 
Evanoff,  Salem,  Mass. 

This  ticket  met  with  hearty 
favor,  the  men  named  being 
elected  by  a  single  ballot  in  each 
instance. 

With  a  few  changes  of  minor 
importance  the  new  constitution 
and  In-laws  of  the  Photographers 
Association  of  America  were 
adopted  at  the  special  meeting 
in  the  afternoon  at  the  Seneca, 
at  which  President  Barrows  i)re- 
sided.  The  new  constitution  is 
expected  to  bring  every  state 
organization  into  the  national 
body  organized  as  the  American 
Congress  of  Photography.  The 
congress  is  really  a  body  within 
a  body.  It  will  do  the  work  and 
the  P.  A.  of  A. ,  will  give  its  stamp 
to  what  the  congress  does,  there- 
by exerting  a  strong  influence  for 
the  passage  of  laws  at  Washing- 


ton a!id  in  the  state  legislatures, 
and  obtaining  conditions  that  will 
make  for  the  betterment  of  the 
profession. 

B.  Frank  Puffer  of  New  York 
spoke  in  support  of  the  constitu- 
tion.     Mr.  Puffer  said : 

"  Tfiis  constitution  and  by-laws  as 
submitted  in  no  way  prevents  the 
P.  A.  of  A.,  from  having  a  duplicate 
of  this  convention  next  year,  and  as 
this  is  the  greatest  convention  in  the 
history  of  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  what 
more  can  be  said?  The  old  consti- 
tution has  been  outgrown.  It  is 
faulty  in  its  construction  and  im- 
possible to  be  lived  up  to.  The  one 
great  step  in  advance  to  be  gained 
under  the  new  constitution  is  tliat  it 
authorizes  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  to  call 
together  the  American  Congress  of 
Photography  next  year  as  a  consti- 
tutional ac-t,  whereas  this  year  it 
was  called  together  with  the  consent 
of  the  executive  board  of  the  P. 
A.  of  A. 

"  The  first  step  in  the  amalgama- 
tion of  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  and  the  vari- 
ous state  societies  can  now  be  con- 
sistently made  and  there  is  no 
dictation  from  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  to  the 
state  societies  in  any  waj-.  Next 
year  the  state  societies  will  be  in- 
vited to  send  delegates  and  affiliate 
with  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  and  through 
the  American  Congress  of  Photog- 
ra])hy,  and  this  invitation  can  be  de- 
clined or  accepted,  at  the  discretion 
of  each  individual  state  society, 
which  will  be  determined  by  a  ma- 
jority vote  at  their  next  annual 
meeting." 

"  This  association  will  do  every- 
thing for  the  states,"  said  I\Ir.  Ham- 
mer, following  Mr.  Puffer.  "  The 
states  may  bring  subjects  before  the 
executive  board  of  the  P.  A.  of  A., 
for  approval.  New  policies,  ques- 
tions of  copyright,  a  new  standard 
of  weights  and  measures,  anything 
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considered.  We  can  make  some- 
thing practical  out  of  our  conven- 
tions instead  of  using  them  for  the 
entertainment  of  delegates." 

A  motion  involviiicr  the  disso- 
lution of  the  couiniittee  on  con- 
stitution and  by-laws  and  carry- 
ing a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  com- 
mittee for  its  work  and  to  Presi- 
dent Barrows  for  the  idea  of  a 
congress  was  carried  with  loud 
applause.  Adjournment  was 
taken  to  allow  delegates  an  op- 
portunity to  attend  the  roastfest 
at  Moerlbach  Park,  given  by  the 
Defender  Photo  Supjily  and  Sen- 
eca Camera  Companies. 

The  constitution  and  by-laws 
as  amended  and  adopted  are 
given  herewith  in  full : 

ARTICLE  I 

The  official  title  of  this  associa- 
tion is :  The  Photographers'  Associa- 
tion of  America,  and  jurisdiction 
thereunto  belonging. 

PREAMBLE 

The  objects  and  purposes  of  the 
Society  shall  be  the  betterment  of 
the  profession,  the  creating,  foster- 
ing and  maintaining  of  cordial  rela- 
tions between  the  members  of  the 
State  organizations  and  the  Photog- 
raphers Association  of  America,  and 
to  oppose  any  injustice  or  infringe- 
ment of  the  rights  of  photographers. 

ARTICLE  II 

Titles  of  Officers 

Sec.  1.  The  officers,  the  official 
titles : 

President. 

First  Vice  President. 

Second  Vice  President. 

Treasurer. 

Secretary. 


And  these  shall  constitute  the  Ex- 
ecutive Board,  who  shall  hold  office 
for  one  year  from  tlie  first  day  of 
January,  or  until  their  successors 
be  elected.  The  Treasurer  shall  be 
elected  to  serve  for  three  years. 

ARTICLE  III 

CoNSTITl'ENTS  OF  THE  ASSOCIATION 

The  membership  of  the  Associa- 
tion shall  (1)  active,  (-2)  associate, 
(S)  honorary,  (4)  life,  and  (5)  a  Con- 
gress of  Photography. 

Active  Members 
Sec.  1.  Every  active  member  of 
this  association  shall  be  either  an 
active  member  of  a  regular  organ- 
ized State  Association  in  good  stand- 
ing, owner  or  manager  of  a  studio, 
or  such  photographers,  owners  or 
part  owners  as  may  pay  the  initia- 
tion fee  and  annual  dues  called  for 
under  Article  IV,  Sec.  1. 

Associate  Members 

Sec.  2.  Associate  members  shall 
include  employees,  manufacturers, 
dealers  and  their  representatives, 
and  shall  enjoy  all  the  privileges  of 
the  Association,  e\cepting  that  of 
voting  and  speaking  on  the  floor  of 
the  convention  during  executive  ses- 
sions. 

Honorary  Members 

Sec.  3.  Eminent  photographers 
of  other  countries,  inventors  and 
other  scientific  men,  who  may  be 
thought  worthy  of  the  distinction, 
may  be  elected  honorary  members. 
They  shall  not,  however,  be  required 
to  contribute  to  the  funds,  nor  shall 
they  be  eligible  to  hold  office  or  to 
vote. 

Life  Members 

Sec.  4.  AH  past  i)residents  shall 
be  life  members  and  shall  enjoy  all 
privileges  of  active  members. 

American  Congress  of 
Photography 
Sec.  5.     Each    State   Association 


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within  the  boundaries  of  America 
shall  at  the  time  at  which  its  officers 
are  chosen  select  one  representative 
for  each  50  or  less  of  its  members, 
who  shall  serve  until  the  dissolution 
of  each  particular  Congress,  and  one 
alternate,  who  shall  serve  in  the  ab- 
sence of  the  regular  delegate.  The 
President  of  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  shall 
upon  notification  of  the  selection  of 
the  delegates  and  alternates  by  the 
President  of  the  State  Association, 
forward  the  necessary  credentials  at 
least  six  days  prior  to  the  annual 
meeting. 

ARTICLE  IV 
Dies 

Sec.  1.  Active  members — Initia- 
tion fee,  83.00;  dues,  82. 00. 

Sec.  2.  Associate  members  —  No 
initiation  fee;  dues  S'2.00. 

Sec.  3.  Honorary  members  —  No 
initiation  fee ;  no  dues. 

Sec.  4.  Life  members — No  initia- 
tion fee;  no  dues. 

Sec.  5.  A  yearly  per  capita  tax 
of  '25  cents  from  State  members 
shall  be  paid  into  the  National 
Treasury  in  lieu  of  initiation  fee. 

Sec.  6.  The  annual  dues  shall  be 
paid  on  January  1st  of  each  year. 
A  member  being  in  arrears  for  two 
years'  dues  shall  be  notified  by  the 
Treasurer  and  on  failure  to  pay 
such  indebtedness  before  the  next 
annual  meeting  his  name  shall  be 
dropped. 

Sec.  7.  The  25  cents  per  capita 
tax  of  State  Associations  shall  be 
paid  into  the  Treasury  of  the  Na- 
tional on  or  before  the  first  day  of 
the  annual  Executive  Board  meeting. 

Sec.  8.  Members  of  the  Congress 
shall  pay  to  the  Treasurer  their  an- 
nual dues  of  82.00,  as  an  individual 
member  of  the  P.  A.  of  A. 

ARTICLE  V 
The  American'  Congress  of 
Photography 
Sec.  1    The  American  Congress  of 


Photography  shall  constitute  a  de- 
liberative body  to  discuss  all  mat- 
ters suggested  by  the  President  of 
the  P.  A.  of  A.,  and  other  matters 
for  the  good  of  the  profession. 

Sec.  2.  All  matters  passed  upon 
by  the  American  Congress  of  Pho- 
tography shall  be  submitted  to  the 
Executive  Board  for  final  approval. 
Such  matters  as  are  rejected  by  the 
Executive  Board  may  be  submitted 
to  an  open  meeting  of  the  Conven- 
tion. 

ARTICLE  VI 
Standing  Committees 

Sec.  1.  Auditing  Committee 
which  shall  consist  of  members  of 
the  Executive  Board. 

Nominating  Committee,  ap- 
pointed by  the  President. 

Committee  on  Resolutions,  ap- 
pointed by  the  President. 

Committee  f)n  Progress  of  Photog- 
raphy, appointed  by  the  President. 

ARTICLE  VII 
DiTiES  OF  Officers 

Sec.  1.  The  President  shall  pre- 
side at  all  meetings  of  the  Executive 
Board  and  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Association. 

Sec.  2.  In  the  absence  or  inability 
of  the  President  to  preside  the  1st 
Vice  President  shall  assum.e  the 
duties  of  the  office. 

Sec.  3.  The  1st  Vice  President 
shall  have  charge  of  the  exhibit  of 
photographs  at  the  annual  conven- 
tion, and  such  other  duties  as  may 
be  required  of  him  by  the  Executive 
Board. 

Sec.  4.  The  duties  of  the  2nd 
Vice  President  shall  be  determined 
by  the  Board. 

Sec.  5.  The  duties  of  the  Secre- 
tary shall  be  to  keep  a  fair  and 
correct  minutes  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  meetings  and  carefully  pre- 
serve on  file  for  five  years  essays 
and  pajiers  received  by  the  Associa- 
tion, and  he  shall  receive  5  per  cent, 
of  the  gross  receipts  during  his  terra 


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of  office  as  full  compensation  for  his 
services.  Any  moneys  collected  by 
the  Secretary  shall  be  immediately 
turned  over  to  the  Treasurer,  taking 
his  receipt  for  the  same.  He  shall 
make  an  accurate  detailed  re])ort  of 
the  business  of  his  office  in  time  to 
be  audited  at  the  regular  meeting  of 
the  Executive  Committee. 

Sec.  6.  The  Treasurer  shall  pay 
no  moneys  unless  by  order  of  the 
President  and  the  Secretary.  He 
shall  present  a  statement  of  his  ac- 
counts at  each  regular  meeting  of 
the  Executive  Committee.  He  shall 
receive  5  per  cent,  of  the  gross  re- 
ceipts during  his  term  of  office  as 
full  compensation  for  his  services. 
In  the  absence  of  the  Treasurer,  he 
shall  appoint  a  deputy,  with  power 
of  attorney,  to  fulfill  his  duties.  The 
Treasurer  shall  be  required  to  give 
an  indemnity  bond,  equal  to  the 
amount  of  cash  on  hand  on  the  1st 
day  of  January  of  each  year;  said 
bond  to  be  purchased  by  the  Associa- 
tion. 

Sec.  7.  The  meetings  of  the  Con- 
gress shall  be  called  to  order  by  the 
President  of  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  who 
shall  act  as  temporary  Chairman, 
until  such  time  as  this  body  shall 
elect  its  own  officers,  which  shall 
constitute  the  first  c>rder  of  business. 
These  officers  shall  be  a  Chairman, 
a  Vice  Chairman  and  a  Secretary. 

DUTIES  OF  OFFICERS 

American  Conokkss  of 
Photoguaphy 

Sec.  8.  The  Chairman  of  the 
American  Congress  of  Photography 
shall  preside  at  all  sessions  of  the 
Congress. 

The  duties  of  the  Vice  Chairman 
shall  be  to  preside  in  the  absence  of 
the  Chairman. 

The  duties  of  the  Secretary  shall 
be  to  keep  a  correct  record  of  the 
meetings  and  report  all  matters  to 
the  Executive  Board  of  the  P.  A.  of 
A.,  as  directed  by  the  Congress. 


BY-LAWS 


ARTICLE  I 

Mkktixos 

Sec.  1.  The  annual  meetings  shall 
be  held  at  suc-h  })lac'e  as  may  be  de- 
termined ujion   by  the  Association. 

Sec.  2.  Special  meetings  of  the 
Association  may  be  called  by  the 
President  with  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  Executive  Committee, 
whenever  deemed  expedient. 

ARTICLE  II 

QlOlllIM 

Twenty-five  members  shall  consti- 
tute a  quorimi  for  the  transaction  of 
business  of  the  Association. 

ARTICLE  III 
Ordeii  oi'  BrsiNEss 

Sec.  1.  Calling  of  the  meeting  to 
order. 

Sec.  2.  Calling  the  roll  of  mem- 
bers. 

Sec.  3.  Reading  the  minutes  of 
last  meeting. 

Sec.  4.  Reports  of  Special  and 
Standing  Committees,  which  shall 
be  read  by  their  titles  in  full. 

Sec.  5.  Selection  of  location  for 
next  Convention  shall  be  determined 
by  ballot.  The  city  or  town  receiv- 
ing the  highest  mnuber  of  votes 
shall  be  declared  to  be  the  choice  of 
the  Convention. 

Sec.  6.  A  Committee  to  nominate 
officers  for  the  ensuing  year  shall  be 
appc^inted  to  report  at  the  next  ses- 
sion. 

Sec.  7.  The  election  of  officers 
shall  be  held  at  the  morning  session 
on  the  day  preceding  the  last  day 
of  the  regular  convention. 

Sec.  8.  The  first  session  shall 
close  with  the  reading  of  the  Presi- 
dent's report  and  referring  to  appro- 
priate committees  any  portion 
requiring  the  action  of  such  com- 
mittees. 


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Sec.  9.  After  the  first  session,  the 
order  of  business  shall  be  determined 
by  the  nature  of  the  subject  pre- 
sented and  by  the  will  of  the  major- 
ity. 

Sec.  10.  All  questions,  except  the 
election  or  expulsion  of  members, 
and  the  election  of  officers,  may  be 
determined  by  yeas  and  nays  or  by 
a  division  if  necessary. 

Sec.  11.  Any  motion  duly  made 
and  seconded  shall  be  proposed  by 
the  President  and  shall  then  only  be 
debatable. 

Sec.  l-^.  A  motion  made  and  sec- 
onded shall  be  open  to  discussion 
and  while  it  is  before  the  associa- 
tion, no  motion  shall  be  received 
unless  to  amend,  divide,  commit,  to 
lay  on  the  table,  postpone  or 
adjourn,  and  a  motit^n  to  adjourn 
shall  be  decided  without  debate. 

Sec.  13.  Any  member  who  may 
desire  to  speak,  on  any  motion  or 
resolution  shall,  standing,  address 
the  President,  and  shall  confine  his 
remarks  to  the  question  at  issue, 
avoid  any  offensive  or  personal  re- 
marks and  shall  not  speak  more 
than  once  and  then  not  more  than 
five  minutes  upon  the  same  subject, 
unless  by  permission  of  the  Presi- 
dent. 

Sec.  14.  No  member  shall  be  in- 
terru])ted  while  speaking  imless  by 
a  person  rising  to  a  point  of  order 
decided  by  the  President. 

ARTICLE  IV 

Election'  of  Oificers 

Sec.  1.  The  election  of  officers 
shall  be  conducted  by  an  officially 
prepared  ballot. 

Sec.  2.  All  persons  elected  officers 
shall  signify  their  acceptance  or  re- 
jection before  adjournment. 

Sec.  3.  The  members  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Board  shall  be  entitled  to 
their  expenses  for  attending  all  an- 
nual meetings  of  the  Association 
and  such  other  meetings  as  may  be 
deemed  necessary  by  the  President. 


ARTICLE  V 

Change  of  Constitition 
Sec.  1.  The  Constitution  may  be 
altered  or  amended  by  a  three- 
fourths  vote  of  all  members  present 
at  any  regular  meeting,  and  notice 
to  alter  or  amend  same  shall  be 
given  at  least  one  session  before 
action  thereon  can  be  taken.  In 
questions  as  to  parliamentary  usages, 
Cushing's  Manual  shall  prevail. 
(Signed)     C.  L.  Lewis, 

Chairman, 
L.  F.  Haji.^ikr,  Jr., 
B.  Frank  Piffer, 
.   C.  M.  Hayes, 
J.  Frank  Johnson. 

The  Avomen  of  the  National 
Association  met  Friday  morning 
and  sections  formed.  The  officers 
elected  were : 

Mary  Carnell,  Philadelphia,  pres- 
ident ;  M.  Estelle  Jenkins,  Chicago, 
secretary. 

Mrs.  Gertrude  Kasebier,  New 
York,  was  apj)ointed  chairman  of 
the  eastern  territory;  Miss  Kather- 
ine  Jamieson,  Pittsburg,  of  the 
Middle  West,  and  Miss  Eola  White, 
of  all  territory  west  of  the  Missis- 
sippi. They  were  empowered  to 
select  their  own  committees. 

The  final  business  session  of 
the  convention  was  held  in  the 
school  room  at  Convention  Hall, 
Saturday,  10  a.  m. 

The  Committee  on  Resolutions 
reported,  and  the  report  was 
made  the  medium  of  conveying 
the  thanks  of  the  association  to 
the  citizens  of  Rochester,  the 
Hotel  Seneca  management,  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  mer- 
chants of  the  city,  the  Bausch  & 
Lomb  Optical  Com  pa  113',  the 
Eastman  Kodak  Comi)any,  the 
instructors  in  the  school  of  pho- 


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tography,  the  pi-ess  of  Rochester, 

the  retiring  president  and  the 
board  of  otHcers.  The  report  was 
presented  by  Charles  W.  Hearn, 
of  Boston. 

A  special  resolution  thanked 
President  Barrows  for  his  capa- 
ble and  efficient  administration 
and  the  Rochester  photographers 
who  arranged  for  the  conven- 
tion. In  moving  the  adoption 
of  the  resolutions,  Morris  Burke 
Parkinson,  of  Boston,  paid  a 
tril)ute  to  George  Eastman  and 
spoke  especially  of  the  cordiality 
and  hospitality  which  he  had 
shown  to  the  association. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  busi- 
ness session  the  prizes  for  the 
most  practical  device  in  photo- 
graphic accessories  brought  out 
within  the  last  year  Avere awarded. 
The  decision  was  made  by  popu- 
lar vote,  each  delegate  being  al- 
lowed to  cast  a  ballot.  PrcA  ious 
to  the  taking  of  the  vote  the  con- 
testants, of  whom  there  were 
twenty-seven,  were  given  three 
minutes  each  in  which  to  explain 
their  inventions. 

The  first  prize  was  $100  in 
cash  and  was  won  by  J.  A.  Meis- 
ser,  of  Eureka,  C'al.,  on  a  mirror 
device  which  enaliles  the  oper- 
ating jihotographer  to  focus  the 
camera,  with  the  plate  in  position, 
thus  allowing  the  operator  to  see 
the  subject  up  to  the  moment 
the  exposure  is  made. 

The  second  prize,  a  photo- 
graphic library  valued  at  $75, 
was  won   by  O.   C.  Courtright, 


of  Fort  Madison,  La.  The  in- 
vention is  a  device  for  facilitating 
printing  from  negatives  and  can 
be  used  with  ecpial  facilitj^  in 
artificial  light  and  daylight. 


THE  FIRST  CONGRESS 
OF  PHOTOGRAPHY 

The  idea  of  organizing  a  Con- 
gress of  Photograi)hy  originated 
with  Frank  R.  Barrows,  presi- 
dent of  the  P.  A.  of  A.,  its  ob- 
ject being  to  foster  the  organi- 
zation of  state  and  local  associa- 
tions of  the  profession,  and  to 
have  such  societies  affiliate  with 
the  national  association.  With 
such  affiliation  Mr.  Barrows  and 
his  supporters  are  confident  that 
the  Congress  will  be  of  lasting 
benefit  to  the  profession. 

We  understand  that  the  Con- 
gress is  to  meet  and  consider  all 
problems  concerning  the  welfare 
of  the  profession,  and  to  submit 
the  result  of  their  deliberations 
to  the  National  organization  in 
convention  assembled  for  adop- 
tion or  rejection. 

The  delegates  to  this  first 
Congress  were  summoned  on  the 
personal  invitation  of  President 
Barrows,  as  the  Congress  at  such 
time  was  not  actually  in  exist- 
ence. 

The  names  of  the  delegates 
are  as  follows : 

Pennsylvania— Ryland  W.  Phil- 
lips, Philadelphia;  Prank  Horn- 
baker,  Scranton;  E.  E.  Seavy,  New 
Castle. 


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Ohio— C.  L.  Lewis,  Toledo;  W. 
L.  Smith,  St.  Mary's;  J.  L.  Walker, 
Bowling  Green. 

New  York — B.  Frank  Puffer, 
New  York;  B.  Boyce,  Trov;  Harry 

A.  Bliss,  Buffalo. 

Illinois  -  E.  C.  Pratt,  Aurora;  H. 

B.  Medlar,  Woodstock;  Victor 
Georg,  Springfield. 

Michigan — E.  E.  Doty,  Belding; 
E.  S.  Tray,  Jackson;  J.  F.  Rent- 
schler,  Ann  Arbor. 

Iowa — H.  E.  Voiland,  Sioux  City; 
H.  O.  Baldwin,  Fort  Dodge;  Chas. 
Townsend,  Des  Moines;  F.  A.  Tree, 
Davenport. 

Canada — Frank  Jackson,  Barrie, 
Ont. ;  Fred  L.  Roy,  Peterboro, 
Ont. ;  Charles  L.  Rosev^ear,  Toronto, 
Ont. 

Nebraska — J.  Leschinsky,  Grand 
Island;  A.  C.  Townsend,  Lincoln; 
R.  C.  Nelson,  Hastings. 

Missouri  —  Fred  Hammer,  St. 
Louis;  L.  J.  Studebaker,  Kansas 
City;  F.  W.  Crow,  Marysville;  Miss 
Belle  Johnson,  Monroe  City;  Alfred 
Larsen,  Mexico. 

New  England — A.  W.  Webster, 
Boston,  Mass.;  W.  F.  Oliver,  Bald- 
winsville,  Mass. ;  W.  H.  Partridge, 
Boston,  Mass.;  J.  H.  Garo,  Boston, 
Mass. 

Indiana — George  J.  Parrot,  Fort 
Wayne;  Benjamin  Larrimer,  Clar- 
ion ;  Felix  Schanz,  Fort  Wayne. 

Wisconsin  —  Ebenezer  H.  Har- 
wood,  Appleton;  W.  A.  Ross,  J.  M. 
Bandtel,  Milwaid^ee;  W.  A.  Pryor, 
La  Crosse. 

Virginia  and  the  Carolinas  — 
Manly  W.  Tyree,  Raleigh,  N.  C, 
and  associates. 

Kansas  —  Max  Wolf,  ^Manhattan; 
H.  W.  Rudolph,  J.  J.  Peunell. 

Northwestern  Association — Louis 
Dworshak,  Duluth,  Minn.,  and  as- 
sociates. 

The  past  presidents  of  the  Pho- 
graphers'  Association  of  America. 

President  Barrows  as  Tempo- 


vary  ChaiiTnan  called  the  meet- 
ing to  order  in  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce Hall  at  3  p.  M.,  July  19, 
1909,  and  on  motion  he  was 
made  Permanent  Chainnan,  and 
(ieorge  W.  Harris  Secretarj'  of 
the  Congress.  On  opening  the 
session  Mr.  Barrows  addressed 
the  delegates  as  follows: 

In  calling  this  meeting  to  order  I 
feel  that  it  is  one  of  the  most  impor- 
tant moves  in  photography  that  has 
been  proposed  for  some  years.  We 
are  here  for  the  purpose  of  seeing 
if  it  is  not  possible  to  formulate  a 
plan  of  action  wherebj'  the  Ameri- 
can photographers  can  assemble  and 
transact  business,  which  shall  cover 
the  United  States,  and  work  out  an 
united  plan  that  will  eventually 
prove  of  great  vahie  to  us  as  mem- 
bers- This  plan  has  received  con- 
siderable consideration  from  my 
hands.  I  have  corresponded  at 
length  with  various  members  of  the 
association  in  all  parts  of  the  coun- 
try, and  to  all  the  men,  without  ex- 
ception, the  plan  seems  to  meet  with 
favor.  It  is  understood,  when  we 
come  together  to  discuss  ideas,  you 
all  have  ideas  of  your  own,  and  pos- 
sibly some  hobbies  to  ride.  It  would 
be  my  wish,  as  you  deliberate  on 
the  matters  that  may  come  before 
you,  that  if  possible  you  eliminate 
all  red  tape,  in  order  that  we  may 
get  accurately  and  positively  to  the 
gist  of  the  matter  and  formulate  a 
plan  that  shall  be  devoid  of  all  tech- 
nicalities. What  I  wish  to  do  at  this 
meeting  is  merely  to  perfect  an  or- 
ganization, and  pass  it  up  to  our 
parent  body  to  see  if  it  is  accept- 
able to  them.  I  wish  you  to  under- 
stand  that  I  have  called  you  to- 
gether for  this  meeting,  not  as  one 
with  authority;  you  are  invited 
guests  of  mine,  the  same  as  though 
I  were  inviting  you  into  my  own 
home.     We  are  here  to   discuss  a 


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plan  and  to  take  action.  If  this 
meeting  had  been  called  of  the  au- 
thority or  were  considered  in  the 
light  of  legislative  power,  it  would 
fall  at  once,  but  we  have  avoidetl  all 
that  in  calling  you  together  in  this 
social  manner,  that  whatever  ac-tion 
we  shall  take  will  be  binding  on  no 
one;  we  will  just  express  our  ideas 
and  carry  them  up  to  the  National 
Association,  that  our  association 
then  as  a  body  may  act  with  author- 
ity. It  is  not  understood  in  calling 
you  together  that  we  are  to  mar  or 
disturb  the  present  relation  that 
now  exists  in  any  of  the  state  socie- 
ties. It  is  a  known  fact  that  our 
national  government  controls  our 
states;  all  states  have  their  own 
laws  but  they  are  governed  above 
by  the  National.  The  states  have 
to  respect  supreme  court  laws.  So 
it  is  with  this  organization.  If  we 
shall  formulate  any  plans,  the  plan 
shall  be  subject  to  the  National 
body,  and  in  nowise  conflict  with 
that  of  present  state  organizations. 
If  then  the  state  organizations  de- 
sire to  join  us  in  the  movement,  then 
it  is  for  them,  as  a  delegate  body, 
through  the  National  to  officially 
make  the  laws  and  plans  that  shall 
govern  the  association.  It  is  with 
pleasure  that  I  note  the  number  of 
you  who  are  already  here  this  after- 
noon out  of  the  number  that  have 
been  called  together.  It  is  known 
that  two  delegations  are  on  their 
way  here  in  addition  to  the  number 
of  delegates  that  are  here  now  as 
representatives  to  this  body,  and  so 
in  our  preliminary  action  to-day  I 
feel  that  we  can  go  no  further  than 
to  simply  call  our  meeting  together, 
elect  a  permanent  chairman,  call 
our  roll,  and  get  our  members  solid- 
ified; appoint  a  committee  on  con- 
stitution and  by-laws  and  report  to- 
morrow, and  that  is  about  as  far  as 
we  can  go  to-day.  Then  to-morrow 
we  shall  have  material  to  work 
upon,  when  we  shall  discuss  this 


matter  and  bring  it  before  the  P.  A. 
of  A.  If  any  of  you  have  remarks 
to  make  on  this  subject,  we  will  be 
very  glad  to  listen  to  you,  then  we 
will  immediately  proceed  to  elec- 
tion of  a  permanent  chairman  of 
this  organization. 

I  am  sure  that  the  results  of  this 
are  going  to  be  forwarded  until  we 
shall  number  three-fourths  of  the 
photographers  of  the  United  States 
under  one  head.  It  is  unfortunate 
that  with  a  national  body  we  are 
obliged  to  go  to  some  manufacturer 
or  dealer  to  secure  a  list  of  names 
whereby  we  may  reach  the  photog- 
raphers of  the  United  States.  If  we 
have  a  body  of  this  kind  where  the 
secretaries  of  state  associations  and 
secretary  of  the  National  Associa- 
tion co-operate,  we  will  in  our  own 
manner  and  way  be  able  to  reach 
every  photograj)her  in  the  United 
States  and  have  a  perfect  list.  We 
can  ask  the  states  to  do  their  part  in 
carrying  on  the  work  that  now  de- 
volves upon  five  men.  If  each  state 
would  do  its  part,  it  would  ease  our 
work  in  the  National  Association 
and  we  can  increase  our  member- 
ship, finance  and  brotherhood  and 
the  good  of  the  cause.  I  do  not  be- 
lieve there  is  a  man  here  but  who 
realizes  what  may  be  accomplished 
if  we  will  become  a  united  body  of 
photographers  throughout  the 
United  States.  I  do  not  think  that 
prejudice  or  the  opinion  of  one  set 
of  men,  or  one  man  should  rule.  I 
believe  we  should  come  together 
and  avoid  these  little  peculiar 
notions  that  we  may  have  of  our 
own,  and  come  to  some  plan  of 
action,  and  keep  it  just  as  simple  as 
we  possibly  can  until  we  get  organ- 
ized. If  then  we  have  failures, 
they  can  be  adjusted  after  once  we 
are  under  a  working  body. 

With  these  suggestions  I  believe  I 
have  made  it  fairly  clear  to  you  what 
may  be  accomplished,  and  shall  be 
glad  to  receive  now  the  names  of 


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STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


one  whom  you  would  like  to  have  as 
your  permanent  chairman. 

The  first  business  of  the  Con- 
gress was  to  consider  a  revision 
of  the  constitution  and  by-laws 
of  the  P.  A.  of  A. 

The  chair  named  the  follow- 
ing committee  to  act  and  rejjort 
to  the  Congress  and  to  the 
National  Association : 

C.  L.  Lewis,  Clarence  M. 
Hayes,  H.  A.  Bliss,  L.  F.  Ham- 
mer, J.  F.  Jackson. 

The  action  and  proceedings  of 
this  committee  is  given  above  in 
the  account  of  the  regular  meet- 
ings of  the  association. 

It  is  exi)ected  that  among  the 
first  questions  that  will  be  taken 
up  by  the  congress  at  its  deliber- 
ations in  Milwaukee,  a  year 
hence,  will  be  the  establishment 
of  a  uniform  scale  of  weights  and 
measures  as  applied  to  photog- 
raphers' chemical  supjilies  and 
the  matter  of  copyright  and  at- 
tempt to  limit  the  present  prac- 
tically unrestricted  use  of  photo- 
grajihic  pictures  by  the  press. 

From  brief  speeches  by  seve- 
ral of  the  officials,  it  was  im- 
pressed on  the  delegates,  that 
in  view  of  the  new  federation  it 
was  extremely  desirable  to 
undertake  the  formation  of  asso- 
ciations in  all  states  which  are  as 
yet  unorganized. 


EASTMAN  SCHOOL  of 
Professional  Photography, 
Winnipeg,  INIan.,  Sept.  8,  9,  10. 
Allspices  Duffin  &  Co. 


THE  PHOTOGRAPH- 
ERS' ASSOCIATION 
OF  CANADA 

The  Photograjjhic  Association 
of  Canada,  at  its  meeting  at  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  got 
through  much  business.  The 
L  nion  Jack  and  the  Stars  and 
Strijies  hung  side  by  side  over 
the  platform. 

President  J.  Frank  Jackson  of 
Barrie  was  in  the  chair.  There 
was  an  illustrated  address  on 
"The  Importance  of  the  Back- 
ground in  Portrait  Photography" 
by  G.  Hanmer  Croughton  of  this 
city. 

The  feature  of  the  business 
session  Avas  the  re-election  of  the 
officers  who  have  served  for  the 
year  past,  as  follows : 

President,  J.  Frank  Jackson,  Bar- 
rie; first  vice-president,  T.  J. 
Leatherdale,  Toronto;  second  vice- 
president,  Walter  Dickson,  Toronto; 
third  vice-president,  C.  A.  Lee, 
Listowel;  treasurer,  A.  A.  Gray, 
Toronto ;  secretary,  Fred  L.  Roy, 
Peterborough. 

A  resolution  thanking  all  who 
have  helped  to  make  the  Roch- 
ester meeting  a  success  was 
adopted.  It  was  mo\  ed  that  the 
next  convention  lie  held  in  Mon- 
treal, which  indicated  a  joining 
of  forces  by  the  photographers 
of  Canada.  The  matter  of  the 
time  and  place,  hrnvever,  was  left 
in  the  hands  of  the  pi-esident. 


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ODAK  PARK  INSPEC- 
TION   REVELATION 
TO  VISITORS. 

SAW  WONDERS  OF  PHOTOG- 
RAPHIC MANUFACTURE  ON  A 
SCALE  THAT  WAS  BEYOND 
PRIOR    CONCEPTION 

Every  man  —  every  woman  —  who 
ever  took  a  picture,  whether  a  pro- 
fessional or  an  amateur,  had  heard 
of  Kodak  Park.  Only  a  few  of  the 
several  thousand  photographers  who 
visited  the  park  yesterday  after- 
noon had  any  real  appreciation  of 
the  magnitude  of  the  great  industrial 
enterprise  that  has  made  Rochester 
famous  on  five  continents  and  in  all 
the  isles  of  the  sea.  Figures  and 
statistics  some  of  them  had  seen,  but 
the  actual  sight  of  the  park  itself, 
the  personal  inspection  of  the  miles 
of  buildings,  the  gigantic  scale  on 
which  the  plant  is  operated,  were  as 
much  a  revelation  to  the  visitors  as 
if  they  had  never  heard  the  name  of 
the  place. 

Fifty  chartered  cars  ran  at  noon 
from  the  Bausch  &  Lomb  factory  in 
St.  Paul  Street  to  Kodak  Park,  on 
the  Boulevard,  and  before  1  o'clock 
most  of  the  photographers,  their 
wives  and  friends  were  on  the  spa- 
cious grovmds  of  the  Eastman  Com- 
pany. Huge  tents  had  been  pitched 
on  the  lawn  in  front  of  the  main 
entrance,  and  these  served  as  dining 
rooms  for  the  crowd.  Another  big 
tent  in  the  rear  was  for  cooking  and 
serving.  In  another  extemporized 
pavilion  a  band  of  forty  pieces  dis- 
coursed music  for  several  hours.  A 
canvas  wall  higher  than  a  man's 
head  screened  the  entire  front  of  the 
plant  for  several  hundred  feet,  and 
a  single  entrance  into  the  roadway, 
leading  to  the  building,  was  through 
a  canvas  tunnel,  similar  to  that 
erected  in  front  of  residences  at  a 
wedding  or  other  social  function. 

JIR.  EASTMAN  RECEIVED 

George  Eastman,  president  of  the 


company,  mingled  with  his  guests  in 
a  most  democratic  fashion.  There 
was  no  semblance  of  a  formal  recep- 
tion, but  everbody  wanted  to  shake 
hands  with  Mr.  Eastman,  and  he 
was  the  center  of  animated  groups 
during  the  afternoon.  Henry  A. 
Strong,  Albert  O.  Fenn,  Alexander 
]\I.  Lindsay,  and  other  prominent 
directors  of  the  Eastman  Company 
were  on  the  grounds,  as  were  a  score 
of  the  managers  of  departments  and 
chiefs  of  bureaus  of  the  Eastman 
staff.  Dozens  of  prominent  business 
men,  more  or  less  closely  affiliated 
with  the  Eastman  enterprises,  were 
guests  of  the  company,  as  well  as 
about  2()()()  photographers,  their 
wives  and  families. 

A   WALK  OF  OVER  TWO  MILES 

An  elaborate  luncheon  was  served 
for  an  hour,  until  the  midtitude  had 
been  fed.  The  long  procession  then 
started,  marching  in  couples,  and 
the  inspection  of  the  great  plant 
began.  Every  detail  had  been  ar- 
ranged. The  path  led  from  one 
buiiding  to  the  other,  upstairs  and 
do\\  nstairs,  even  through  semi-dark- 
ened rooms  —  the  line  of  march  was 
said  to  have  been  two  and  a  quarter 
miles  long  —  and  thirty  of  the  forty- 
six  buildings  at  the  park  were  vis- 
ited. At  each  turn,  arrows  pointed 
the  way,  and  at  least  a  hundred  em- 
ployes of  the  factory  stood  along 
the  lines  at  intervals  of  a  few  feet  to 
keep  watch  of  the  crowds  and  see 
that  everything  ran  smoothly  and  to 
explain  tlie  points  of  interest  to  each 
group  as  it  wound  slowly  in  and  out 
of  the  buildings.  It  was  almost  like 
a  labyrinth ;  after  the  journey  was 
started,  there  seemed  no  way  to 
turn  back.  The  lines  wound  in  and 
out  of  the  buildings,  everyone  eager 
to  see  things,  and  soon  the  astonish- 
ment at  the  magnitude  of  the  plant 
was  echoed  on  all  sides.  After 
walking  for  an  hour — it  seemed  a 
day — one  enthusiastic  photographer 
from  Iowa  was  heard  to  remark  to 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


FROM  NEGATIVE  MADE  AT  CONVENTION  SCHOOL 
By  F.  M.  Soiners 


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FROM  NKGATIVE  MAUK  AT  CONVENTION  SCHOOL 
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STUDIO  LIGHT  and 


his  wife :   "Are  we  still  in  New  York 
State?" 

A  I.IliEHAL  EDICATION 

The  inspection  plans  were  sn  care- 
fully arranged  that  any  intelligent 
man — and  most  of  them  were  pho- 
tographers deeply  interested  in  pho- 
tographic matters — could  not  fail  to 
gain  more  of  an  idea  of  the  process 
of  making  photographic  paper, 
moving  picture  films  and  the 
dozens  of  other  products  manufac- 
tured at  the  plant  than  he  ever  be- 
fore had  in  all  his  life.  It  was  a 
liberal  education  for  the  photog- 
raphic fraternity.  ISIany  of  them 
said  the  visit  to  the  Eastman  fac- 
tory was  well  worth  c-oming  to  Koch- 
ester  to  see,  even  if  there  had  been 
no  convention  here. 

This  extract  from  the  souvenir 
book  which  was  distributed  to  all 
the  visitors  conveys  some  idea  of  the 
impression  that  was  gained  by  the 
visitors : 

THINKING  IN  BIG  FIGIRES 

"We  are  accustomed  in  this  coun- 
try to  stupendous  figures,  and  when 
they  are  applied  to  the  output  of 
a  steel  mill  or  the  tonnage  of  a  rail- 
road, we  think  not  so  much  of  it, 
because  the  products  themselves  are 
large.  But  a  moving  picture  nega- 
tive is  such  a  tiny  thing,  a  post  card 
is  so  small,  an  b  x  10  plate  is  so  in- 
significant as  compared  with  a  steel 
rail,  and  a  camera  is  so  unpreten- 
tious alongside  of  a  locomotive  or  an 
automobile,  that  we  do  not  look 
for  mechanically  big  things  in  a 
photographic  factory.  In  photog- 
raphy we  think  in  grains  and  oimces 
and  square  inches — yet  so  great  is 
the  consumption  of  the  various  pro- 
ducts that  to  complete  the  Eastman 
works  we  must  think  in  acres  and 
tons.  In  Kodak  I'ark,  23  acres 
of  floor  space  is  given  up  to  the 
manufacture  of  sensitized  photog- 
raphic goods;  the  new  plate  building 
now  under  construction  will  bring 


the  total  up  to  more  than  28  acres, 
while  our  other  Rochester  factories 
with  combined  floor  space  devoted 
exclusively  to  the  photographic  busi- 
ness, brings  the  total  up  to  37  acres 
in  Rochester  alone— and  there  is 
still  more  under  construction. 

SOME  EASTMAN  STATISTICS 

"There  are  nearly  4, 000  Rochester 
employes,  and  the  capacity  of  our 
boilers  is  6,700  horse  power.  The 
refrigerating  machines  at  Kodak 
Park  have  a  cooling  power  ecjual  to 
the  melting  of  1,9-20  tons  of  ice  daily. 
The  works  there  are  operated  by  743 
motors,  varying  in  power  from  y^ 
to  75  horse  power,  and  these,  with 
7000  incandescent  lights,  are  fur- 
nished current  by  five  engine-driven 
electric  generators,  with  a  capacity 
1,S()0  kilowatts  or  3,000  horse 
power.  In  the  Kodak  Park  grounds, 
consisting  of  43  acres,  are  two  and  a 
third  miles  of  water  mains,  one  and 
a  third  miles  of  brick  pavement  and 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  of  railroad 
trackage." 

THE  BIG  BOILER  ROOM 

As  the  visitors  walked  along  and 
saw  the  marvels  of  mechanical  gen- 
ius, the  magnitude  of  the  enterjirise 
appeared  almost  to  daze  them.  First 
was  the  boiler  room,  the  seat  of 
energy  of  the  Eastman  plant.  Here 
were  16  huge  boilers,  with  a  capa- 
city of  6000  horse  power.  Above  the 
boilers  were  the  coal  bunkers,  hav- 
ing a  capacity  of  3,200  tons,  from 
which  the  coal  drops  through  chutes 
to  mechanical  stokers.  Eighty  tons 
of  coal  is  burned  daily,  the  waste 
gases  passing  off  through  fuel  econo- 
mizers. There  is  no  smoke  nuisance 
at  Kodak  Park ;  smoke  means  waste, 
and  economy  of  product  is  too 
closely  watched  to  permit  waste  on 
such  a  scale  as  would  follow  imper- 
fect coal  combustion. 

Next  came  the  refrigerating  room, 
with  its  ten  big  machines,  control- 
ling the  temperature  of  every  build- 


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ing  at  the  park,  providing  as  stated, 
the  equivalent  of  1,9-iO  tons  of 
melted  ice  daily. 

A   COMPAIIISOX    ly   EXr.rVES 

The  dynamo  room,  which  came 
next,  looked  like  the  biggest  ma- 
chine shop  any  of  them  had  ever 
seen.  There  is  practically  no  shaft- 
ing at  Kodak  Park.  The  machinery 
is  driven  by  743  motors,  and  the 
power  is  generated  by  five  of  the 
largest  engine-driven  dynamos  that 
were  ever  made,  lighting  the  entire 
plant  and  furnishing  power  to  thou- 
sands of  machines.  By  the  side  of 
the  steam-driven  electric  giants 
which  furnish  light  and  power  at  the 
park,  there  was  seen,  as  an  inter- 
esting exhibit,  the  little  3,5-horse 
power  Buckeye  engine  which  twen- 
ty years  ago  furnished  all  the  power 
needed  for  the  entire  Eastman  plant 
of  that  day.  It  is  enjoying  a  well 
earned  rest  after  its  years  of  service, 
and  is  kept  in  the  model  engine 
room  as  one  of  the  exhibits,  show- 
ing the  increase  of  the  plant  in  the 
past  two  decades. 

BIG    AXD    LITTLE    "doPe"    BARRELS 

The  "dope"  building  was  the  cen- 
ter of  interest  to  the  expert  photog- 
raphers. Beneath  the  floor  were 
the  great  barrels,  holding  200,000 
pounds  of  the  syrup-like  mixture 
from  which  the  film  base  is  made. 
Technically  this  is  known  as  cellu- 
lose nitrate  for  the  ordinary  film, 
and  cellulose  acetate  for  the  new 
non-inflammable  film  now  used  for 
moving  pictures.  In  the  Eastman 
vernacular,  the  film  base  in  this  semi- 
liquid  state  is  called  "dope." 

There  is  another  interesting  ex- 
hibit in  this  do])e  cellar.  It  is  a 
small  barrel  which  tells  the  story  of 
the  volume  of  the  film  business  in 
18  9  1;  it  has  a  capacity  of  500 
pounds.  The  present  barrels  hold 
4,000  pounds  each  and  fifty  of  them 
are  filled  and  refilled  night  and  day. 
The  managers  seem  quite  proud  of 


these  old-time  exhibits,  as  they  show 
more  conclusively  than  any  figures 
that  could  be  given,  the  rapidgrowth 
of  the  volume  of  business  of  the 
plant. 

A    20-TOX    LIFTING    CRAXE 

One  of  the  most  impressive  sights 
at  the  park  is  the  operation  of  the 
overhead  traveling  cranes.  In  the 
roll-coating  building  is  one  of  these 
cranes  with  a  4,5-foot  span  and  a  ca- 
pacity of  20  tons,  three  electric  mo- 
tors, all  under  the  control  of  one 
operator,  giving  the  different  mo- 
tions. In  addition  are  two  smaller 
cranes,  each  of  five  tons  capacity. 
The  cranes  are  used  in  moving  the 
tanks  of  "dope"  to  and  from  the 
mixers. 

The  acid  plant  can  hardly  be  called 
one  of  the  show  places  at  the  park, 
but  in  its  bearing  on  the  quality  of 
the  products,  it  is  immensely  im- 
portant, and  the  visitors  who  were 
professional  scanned  the  sections  of 
the  acid  rooms  with  special  interest. 
The  sulphur  burning  furnaces  mark 
the  first  step  in  the  manufacture  of 
sensitized  silver  products  —  the  mak- 
ing of  sulphuric  acid,  which  in  com- 
bination with  nitre,  makes  the  nitric 
ac-id  with  which  the  silver  bullion  is 
nitrated  for  photographic  purposes. 

SILVER    BiLLIOX    IX'    PILES 

A  couple  of  stalwart  employes 
stood  guard  over  the  piles  of  silver 
bricks.  The  Eastman  company  is 
the  largest  consumer  of  silver  bul- 
lion in  the  world,  outside  the  United 
States  mint,  the  consumption  of 
pure  bullion  amounting  to  about  a 
ton  a  week.  The  visitors  looked  at 
the  stack  of  silver  bricks  and  some 
of  them  touched  the  piles  as  they 
walked  by.  Each  brick  is  worth 
approximately  S2o0. 

As  a  sample  of  the  thoroughness 
of  the  equipment  and  the  care  that 
is  taken  in  manufacturing  the  film, 
the  company,  in  order  to  obtain  per- 
fect salts   and    perfect   chemicals. 


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Showing  the  arrangement  of  C.  L.  Venards  First  Prize  Winning  Exhibit  on  Collodio-Carbon 
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Sliowing  the  arrangement  of  another  of  C.  L.  Venard's  First  Prize  Winning 
Exhibits  on  Cullodio-Carbon  at  the  1909  Ilhnois  State  Convention. 


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makes  them.  Nitric  acid  is  used  in 
connection  with  silver  bullion  to 
make  silver  nitrate.  The  company 
makes  its  own  nitric  acid.  It 
makes  its  own  sulphuric  acid,  from 
which,  in  combination  with  nitre, 
the  nitric  acid  is  made.  This  acid 
plant  made  necessary  the  enormous 
stack,  3ti()  feet  in  height,  the  high- 
est in  America,  in  order  to  carry  off 
the  deadly  poisonous  gasses.  Ni- 
tric acid  is  not  only  used  in  nitrat- 
ing the  silver,  but  it  is  consumed  in 
enormous  quantities  for  cutting  the 
raw  cotton,  which  forms  the  base  of 
transparent  films. 

PAPKR  ROLLS  ACROSS  CONTINENT 

Paper  storage  is  another  impor- 
tant item  in  the  business.  In  the 
immense  storage  room  was  stacked 
up  11,800  huge  rolls  of  paper  —  pa- 
per enough,  41  inches  wide,  to  reach 
from  New  York  to  San  Francisco. 

In  line  with  the  manufacture  of 
incidental  produc-ts  for  use  in  the  fac- 
tory is  the  big  department  for  the 
making  of  paper  boxes.  The  box 
factory  has  a  capacity  of  25,000  pa- 
per boxes  a  day.  In  addition,  there 
are  made  millions  of  envelopes  for 
papers  and  millions  of  cartons  for 
films.  The  box  making,  which  is 
done  mainly  by  girls,  was  one  of 
the  most  interesting  features  of  the 
inspection. 

At  one  end  of  the  park  is  a  rail- 
road warehouse  on  a  spur  of  the 
New  York  Central  that  is  large 
enough  for  a  town  of  several  thou- 
sand inhabitants.  This  is  used 
mostly  for  incoming  freight,  the  out- 
going product  being  shipped  from 
the  State  street  building,  with  the 
exception  of  the  glass  plates  in  car- 
load lots. 

THE    CONSTRTCTION    DEPARTJIENT 

There  is  a  special  construction  de- 
partment, with  a  large  and  fully 
equipped  drafting  room,  where 
plans  for  special  buildings  and  ma- 
chinery are  made   by  experts   who 


know  the  peculiar  requirements  of 
the  business.  Much  of  the  manu- 
facturing is  done  in  dark  rooms, 
where  ventilation  becomes  a  mat- 
ter of  prime  importance.  In  the 
roll-coating  building,  for  instance, 
are  two  ventilating  fans,  each  160 
inches  in  diameter,  giving  a  com- 
plete change  of  air  every  seven  min- 
utes. Heating,  cooling  and  ventila- 
tion in  a  plant  of  this  size  and  with 
such  special  requirements  become  so 
important  a  factor  that  the  construc- 
tion department  experts  spend  much 
of  the  time  in  solving  the  various 
problems  of  this  nature  that  are  pre- 
sented and  designing  the  special 
equi]>ment  required. 

Another  building  that  attracted 
general  interest  contained  the  lunch 
and  rest  rooms  for  the  employes. 
There  are  two  large  dining  rooms, 
one  for  the  men  and  one  for  the  wo- 
men, where  meals  are  served  at  cost 
and  where  nourishing  food  can  be 
obtained  without  the  loss  of  time 
that  would  be  required  to  go  out- 
side for  the  noon  lunch. 

2,000    PAID    OFF  IN    TEN    MINUTES 

The  last  building  visited  was  the 
department  where  apjilications  for 
work  are  received,  where  the  time 
clocks  are  located,  showing  the  ex- 
act minute  when  each  of  the  2,000 
park  employes  comes  to  work  and 
leaves  for  the  night.  Here  is  the 
cashier's  desk  where  2,000  emploj-es 
are  paid  off  in  ten  minutes  time 
each  week. 

At  the  northern  end  of  the  park 
the  new  plate  building  which  is  in 
proc-ess  of  construction  was  viewed 
with  much  interest.  This  building 
will  be,  when  completed,  the  largest 
single  building  in  the  world  devoted 
to  the  manufacture  of  photographic 
products.  It  is  357  by  8IW  feet  and 
will  add  229,000  square  feet  or  five 
and  a  quarter  acres  to  the  present 
floor  space  at  the  park.  It  will  have 
a  coating  capacity  of  nearly  an  acre 
and  a  quarter  of  glass  per  day.     It 


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is  of  reinforced  concrete  faced  with 
brick  and  in  size  so  far  surjiasses  any 
of  the  other  park  buiklings  as  to 
make  them  seem  small  in  compari- 
son. 

A    FULL    DAY    OF    INSTRUCTION 

The  inspection  continued  for  two 
or  three  hours  and  the  chartered  cars 
began  to  bring  the  visitors  back  to 
the  city  at  4  o'clock.  For  an  hour 
the  cars  ran  on  short  schedule  until 
all  had  been  brought  back  to  the 
center  of  the  city.  Most  of  the  del- 
egates had  started  out  at  9  o'clock 
to  the  Bausch  &  Lomb  factory, 
transferring  to  the  Kodak  plant  at 
noon  by  chartered  cars  without  in- 
termission and  had  continued  at  the 
park  all  the  afternoon.  It  is  safe  to 
say  that  between  the  hours  of  9 
o'clock  in  the  morning  and  5  o'cloc-k 
in  the  afternoon,  they  learned  more 
about  the  magnitude  of  the  photo- 
graphic industry  of  Rochester  than 
they  had  conceived  could  possibly 
have  existed  in  a  single  city  in  the 
world.  They  were  all  willing  to  ad- 
mit Rochester's  claim  to  the  title 
of  the  photographic  center  of  the 
universe  when  they  got  through 
with  the  dual  inspection  yesterday. 
— Rochester  Herald,  July  2-J ,  1909. 


A 


RESUME 


S-U-C-C-E-S-S,  best  tells 
the  story  of  the  Rochester  Con- 
vention. In  point  of  members, 
of  practical  good  accom])lished, 
instruction,  entertainment,  and 
alwve  all,  in  the  spirit  of  har- 
mony and  good  fellowship  the 
twenty-ninth  annual  convention 
will  go  down  to  history  as  the 
most  successful  convention  of 
them  all. 


From  the  week's  program 
outlined,  there  was  every  reason 
to  look  for  an  unusual  conven- 
tion ;  from  the  fact  that  the 
convention  was  to  be  held  in  the 
l)hotographic  center  of  the  world, 
a  large  attendance  was  assured, 
and  due  to  the  fact  that  every 
part  of  the  program  was  carried 
out  with  enthusiasin  and  to  the 
minute,  the  Rochester  convien- 
tion  will  live  long  in  the  mem- 
ory of  those  in  attendance. 

Thirteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
five  men  registered,  and  more 
than  four  hundred  ladies,  which 
made  it  by  far  the  largest  num- 
ber ever  in  attendance  at  a  P.  A. 
of  A.  convention.  In  Detroit 
last  year  seven  hundred  and 
seventj-five  were  in  attendance, 
so  undoubtedly  this  convention 
has  touched  high  water  mark  for 
some  tiiue  to  come. 

The  School  idea  so  success- 
fully introduced  at  the  Detroit 
Convention,  was  splendidly  car- 
ried out  under  the  able  leader- 
ship of  Ryland  W.  Phillips  of 
Philadelphia,  with  the  co-ojiera- 
tion  of  such  past  masters  as  A.  F. 
Bradley,  F.  Milton  Somers,  Cier- 
trude  Kasebier,  E.  B.  Core, 
Frank  Scott  Clark  and  W.  H. 
Towles. 

A  splendid  operating  light 
was  constructed  in  the  school 
room  at  Convention  Hall  and 
every  session  crowded  the  capac- 
ity of  the  large  room,  in  fact,  at 
some  sessions  many  men  were 
unable  to   secure  seats  and    re- 


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mained  standing  throughout  the 
demonstration,  so  eager  av  ere 
the}'  not  to  miss  any  part  of  the 
instruction . 


the  splendidly  arranged  and 
lighted  galleries  were  crowded 
almost  every  moment  Conven- 
tion Hall  was  open : 


Father  Rocliestcr  slicked  up  for  the  occasion  -  From  Rochester  Herald 


And  the  comjilimentary  pic- 
ture display — just  glance  over 
the  following  list  of  exhibitors 
and  it  will  be  easy  to  see  why 


LIST  OF  EXHIBITORS 

1  O.  C.  Courtrlght.    Ft.  Mad.,  la.,  4. 

2  F.  W.  Tvler.    New  York,  N.  Y.,    3. 

3  Alice    Boughton,    New    York,    4. 

4  C.  R.  Reeves,  Anderson,  Ind. 


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5  G.  E.  Tingley,   Mystic,    Conn.,    4. 

6  H.  O.  Baird,    Pittsburg-,    Pa.,    12. 
6a  Miss  E.  K.  Francis,  Phil.,  Pa.,  5. 

7  A.  Newman.  Trinidad,  Col.,   2. 

8  Carl  Frey,  U.ica,  N.  Y.,  3. 

9  Park  Bros.,    Oneida,    N.    Y.,    6. 
10  W.  F.  Vanloo,   Toledo,   O. 
IIW.  H.  Rau,   Phil.,   Pa.,    6. 

12  Miss  E.  S.  Bourke,  Chicago,   4. 
1-3  Miss  B.  Johnson, 

Monroe  City,  Mo.,  6. 

14  Izaak  DeVos,    Chicago,    111.,    6. 

15  Mrs.  W.  Pearse, 

Waukegan,  111.,  4. 
16E.  W.Brown,    Beaver,    Pa..    6. 
17  1.  Biixbaum,    New    York.  N.Y..  5. 
IS  A.  Li.  Bowersox,  Cleveland.  O..  4. 

19  W.  O.  Breckon.    AUeg.,    Pa.,    6. 

20  Baker  Art  Gallery,  Columbus,  O. 

21  Baker  Art  Gallery,    Col.,    O.,    4. 

22  Ella  G.  Ball,   Lancaster,   Pa. 

23  W.  Burnell,  Sil.  Springs,  N.  Y..  4. 

24  W.  N.  Bullington, 

Greenville,  Ala..   4. 

25  A.  M.Camp,  .lamestown,  N.  Y..  6. 

26  W.  E.  Burnell,  Sil.  Spgs.,  N.  Y.,  4. 

27  Cole  &  Miller,    Dansville.  Va.,    6. 

28  F.  S.  Clark,    Detroit.    Mich.,    6. 

29  H.  M.  Clogston.    Marietta.    O..    5. 

30  A.  W.  Cooke,    Auburn,    N.    Y..    6. 

31  B.  S.  Covell.    Birming'm.  Ala..    6. 

32  C.  Lyons,    Charleston,  W.  Va.,    6. 

33  E.  B.  Core.  New  York.   6. 

34  P.  Conklin,    Troy,  N.  Y.,    3. 

35  L.  A.  Dozer,   Bucyrus.    O.,    5. 

36  E.  E.  Doty,    Belding,    Mich..    5. 

37  I.Donaldson,  Wahpeton,  N.  D..  6. 

38  .1.  H.  C.  Evanoff,  Salem.  Mass.,  6. 

39  G.  Edmondson.     Cleveland,  O.,  6. 

40  ^V.  Shewell  Ellis,    Phila.,  Pa..    4. 

41  F.  .1.  Feldman.    El  Paso,  Tex..    4. 

42  M.  VanFleet.    Detroit,   Mich.,     4. 

43  E.  Goldensky,    Phila..    Pa..    6. 

44  Homeier  &  Clark.    Pach..   Va..    4. 

45  C.  M.  Haves  &  Co..  Detroit.  Mich. 

46  Harris  &E wing,  "W^ash.,  D.C..  10. 

47  Miss  E.  Holden,  Phila.,  Pa.,   6. 

48  E.  H.  Hvatt,    Cortland.   N.   Y.,    4. 

49  .1.  E.  Hamsley,   Danville,   111.,   6. 

50  KnafflBros..  Knoxville.  Tenn.,  6. 

51  W.  Koehne,  Chicago,   111..  6. 

52  L.  Kellogg.   Denver,   Col..   6. 

53  .1.  H.  Kirk.     Wheeling.  W.  Va..  6. 

54  M.  Lorvea.   Spokane,   Wash..    6. 

55  S.  H.  Lifshev.  Brooklyn.  N.  Y.,  6. 
56C.  L.Lewis.    Toledo.    O..    2. 

57  K.  Moon.    Grand  Cany'n.  Ariz..  6. 

58  W.S.  M'Caa,    S.  Bethleh'm.  Pa..  5. 

59  W.  H.  Partridge.    Boston.    6. 

60  Rvland  Phillips.    Phila..    Pa.,    6. 

61  W.  E.  Perrv.    Allegheny.    Pa. 

62  L.  D.  Phillips.    Cincinnati.    O..    6. 

63  S.  Price,  Mt.  Airy.  Phila..   Pa..   2. 

64  E.  E.  Seavy,    New  Castle.  Pa.,    4. 

65  D.  D.  Spellman,  Detroit.  Mich..  4. 

66  .1.  C.  Strauss,  St.  Louis,  Mo..   4. 

67  F.  M.  Somers.    Cincinnati,    O..    4. 

68  C.  W.  Schneide.    Elyria.    O. 

69  E.  B.  Reineke,    Kansas    City,    6. 


70  J.M.  Reidsema, 

Kalamazoo,  Mich..    6. 

71  J.  Thibault.  Fall  River,  Mass..  6. 

72  Towles  Studio,    Wash..    D.   C.    6. 

73  Schedin  Studio,  Leadv'le.  Col.,  6. 

74  F.  H.  Shopp,   Wash.,   N.   .1.,    6. 

75  E.  M.  Standif  ord,  Louis'le,  Ky.,  6. 

76  E.  M.  Stone,  Hamilton,  N.  J. 

77  C.  S.  Vernard,  Lincoln,  Neb.,  3. 

78  N.  Walden,  Evansville,  Ind.,  5. 

79  Wharton  &  Tvree,  Raleigh,  N.  C. 

80  C.  W.  Weber,   Erie,  Pa.,  6. 

81  J.  F.  Storck,   Cleveland,   O.,    6. 

82  M.  Wilson  &  Kellv, 

Palo  Alto,  Cal.,   6. 

83  J.  A.  Dumas,   Montreal,   Canada. 

84  J.  A.  Meiser.    Eureka.  Cal.,    5. 

85  Carl  Ruegge,    Milwaukee.  Wis. 

86  Whitman  Stu'o,  Maiden.  Mass..  4. 

87  Young:  &  Carl,    Cincinnati,  O.,    5. 

88  I.  Benjamin,  Cincinnati.  O.,  6. 

89  .1.  E.  Mock.  Rochester.  N.  Y..  5. 

90  Elwin  R.  Sanborn,    New    York. 

91  Mrs.  A.  R.^Finzel,  Flint,  Mich.,  6. 
9la  Hastings  Stu'o.    Hav'l,  Mass.,  6. 

92  3.  S.  Fent,  Albion.  N.  Y.,  6. 

93  .1.  R.  Mordvn,   Franklin,  Pa.,   6. 

94  B.  Hopkins.    Denver.    Col.,    6. 

95  E.  A.  Ritenour,     Uniont'n.  Pa..  6. 

96  R.  M.  Tebbs.     Brooklvn,  N.  Y.,  2. 

97  \V.  M.Stevenson.   Atlanta.  Ga.,  6. 

98  B.  L.  Meiser,   Richmond,  Ind.,  4. 

99  C.  H.  Brown,    Pittsburg.    Pa.,    2. 

100  Evan  D.  Evans.   Erie,   Pa.,   5. 

101  Jane  Reece,   Dayton,  O.,  5. 

102  A.  T.  Proctor,  Hunt'n.  T^^  Va.,  3. 

103  F.  Johnston.    Wash.  D.  C.  6. 

104  Mrs.  Hewitt.    Wash..  D.  C.  2. 

105  A.  W.  Rice.   Berkelev.   Cal..   6. 

106  M.  Jeffers.    Sacketts  Harbor.    4. 

107  A.  C.  Townsend.   Lincoln.   Neb. 

109  M.  Sunderlin.  Flem'ton,  N.  J.,  6. 

110  M.  M'Garvey,  Bellefonte,  Pa..  4. 

111  L.  E.  Allen.    Rochester,  N.  Y.,  1. 

112  G.  Fisher.  N.  Y.  C.  5. 

113  J.  Brubaker.    Grand  Rapids.,    3. 

114  Nat.  Stu'io.    Pawtucket.  R.  I.,  6. 

115  C.  A.  Blodgett.    Hicksv'le,  O..  4. 

116  S.  L.  Stein,    Milwaukee.  Wis..  6. 

117  A.  M.  Thompson.    Jack..  Fla.,    6. 

118  J.  M.  Elliott.    Germant'n.  Pa..  6. 

119  C.  I.  Schlitzer.    Roches..  N.  Y..  6. 

120  W.  H.  Langdon.  Fulton.  N.  Y.,  6 

121  M.  K.  Eliason.  Mitchell.  S.  D..  6. 

122  E.  Calhoun.    Rochester.  N.  Y..  5. 

123  E.  Rose,    Binghamton.  N.  Y.. 

124  L.  S.  White,    New  York.  N.  Y..  6. 

125  S.  Steinburg.    S.  Bethlehem.  Pa. 

126  F.  Steadman.  Sea  Breeze.  Fla..  6. 

127  C.  W.  Hearn,    Boston.  Mass.,  4. 

128  I.  E.  Hori.     New  York.  N.  Y..  6. 

129  M.  Stewart.    Canandai..  N.  Y..  6. 

130  F.  F.  Leet,    Randolph.  N.  Y..  6. 

131  Miss  M.Morton.  Linds'v,  Can.,  4. 

132  J.  N.  Lapres.    Montreal,  Can.,  6. 

133  J.  Smith.    New  York.  N.  Y..  6. 

134  Nicholson  Bros..  Indian..  Ind..  4. 

135  W.  E.  Lennv.    Atlanta.  Ga..  8. 

136  E.  H.  W.  McKee.    Pitts..  Pa..  4. 

137  Y.  J.  Gold,  Stella,  Mo.,  6. 


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138  C.  A.  Jarrett,  Olean,  N.  Y.,  4. 

139  C.  W.  Schneide,   Elyria,  O.,  7. 

140  G.  HoUoway,  TerreH'te,  Incl.,  6. 

141  Miss  J.  H.Elton,  Pitm'n,  N.  Y.,  2. 

142  Hose.    Biiig-hamton,   N.   Y.,    6. 

143  Kemp's  Stu'o.     Scranton,  Pa.,  1. 

144  .1.  E.  Wamslev,    Danv'le,  Cal.,  5. 

145  C.  Pach,  Lakewood.  N.  J..  6. 

146  Perry  Stu'io,    AUeg-heny,  Pa.,  6. 

147  L.  Dworshak,  Duluth,  Minn. 

149  Van  Loo,  Toledo,  O.,  4. 

150  Zweifel,    Dayton,   O.,    3. 

151  E.  H.  Stone.    Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  5. 

152  Taylor  &  Carpenter. 

Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  2. 

153  J.  F.  Cady,    Boonville,  Ind.,  3. 

154  C.  W.  Gerald,     Roches.,  N.  Y.,  6. 

155  I.  W.  Dickson,  Ont. 

156  Bvrd  Stu'o.    Cambr'ge,  Mass..  5. 

157  C.  A.  Smith.    Rochester,  N.  Y.,  3. 

158  Giffln,   Wheeling,  W.  Va. 

159  D.  Rosser,    Pittsburg,  Pa.,  3. 

160  J.  E.  liosch,     St.  Louis,  Mo.,  5. 

161  .J.Brigham,  Battle  C'k,  Mich.,  2. 

162  Falls,  New  York,  N.  Y.,  3. 

163  Jamison  Stu'o,   Pitts.,  Pa..  6. 

164  J.  \V.  Kellmer.    Hazlet'n.  Pa.,  4. 

165  Van  Fleet.    Detroit.  Mich..  4. 

166  Van  Deventer,   Decatur,  111.,  4. 

167  Dudley  Hovt.   New  York,   5. 
167a  Pirie  M'Donald,     New  York.  6. 

169  Wilson  &  Kelly,  Palo  Alto,  Cal. 

170  Aune,  Portland,  Oregon. 

171  Miss  E.  Jenkins,  Chicago,   6. 

172  Frank  Moore.  Cleveland,   O..   4. 

173  Kajiwara,   St.  Louis,   3. 

174  Mrs.  E.  Satinders,    Cleveland.  5. 

175  Baker  Art  Gal.,     Colum.,  O.,  2. 

176  Chas.  Lewis.  Toledo,  O.,  2. 

177  W.  S.  Goddard,  Lorain,  O..  2. 

178  C.  B.  March,   Gallion,  O.,  2. 

179  Bowersox,   Cleveland,  O.,  2. 

180  Van  De  Grift,    Piqua,  O.,  2. 

181  Edmonson,    Cleveland,  O.,  2. 

182  F.  R.  Bill,    Cleveland,  O.,  2. 

183  Somers,  Cincinnati,  O.,  2. 

184  Bateham.    Norwalk,  O.,  2. 

185  Schneide,    Elyria,    O.,  2. 

186  Porter,    Youngstown,  O.,  2. 

187  Brenner,  Cincinnati,  O.,  2. 
lS7a  Edmonson.    Cleveland.    Ohio. 

188  Miller  Studio,    Minea.,  Minn.,  3. 
1S9J.  H.Kent.   Rochester,  N.  Y.,    3. 

190  H.  Beach,    Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  6. 

191  Al.  Holden.   Phila.,  Pa..  6. 

192  R.  P.  Bellsmith,     Cincin.,  O.,  3. 

193  M.  B.  Parkinson.     Boston.  4. 

194  H.  G.  Andrews,  Roch.,  Minn..  6. 

195  Geo.  Sperry,    Toledo,  O.,  6. 

196  A.  J.  Borst,   New^  York,   4. 

197  J.  H.  Garo,   Boston  Mass. 

198  R.  W.  Johnston,    Pittsburg.  4. 

199  Miss  Mary  Carnell,  Phil.,  I'a.,  G. 

200  J.  Rentschler, 

Ann  Arbor,  Mich..  6. 

201  G.  Kasebler,  New  York,  6. 

202  C.  C.  Keough.     Greensburg,  Pa. 

203  Bradley's  Studio,    New  York,  6. 

204  MissN.  J.  Hall, 

Brookline  Mass.,  6. 


205  Boyce,   Washington,  D.  C. 

206  J.  R.  Bishop,   Wash.,  D.  C,  3. 

207  Henderson,   Wash.,  D.  C.  6. 
20S  l-;ilni(inston.    Wash.,  D.  C,  6. 

209  Harris,   Wash..  D.  C,  6. 

210  J.  1'.  Haley,    B'dgep'rl,  Conn.,  1. 

211  F.  R.  Brothers,     Olean,  N.  Y., 

212  W.  A.  Furlong,    Roch.,  N.  Y.,  4. 

213  F.  Barrows,    Boston,  Mass.,  5. 

214  G.  Nussbaumer,    Buffalo.  N.  Y. 

215  G.  F.  Crawford,   Hamilton,  Ont. 

216  A.  M.  Cunningham.     Ham.,  Ont. 

217  Frank  Jackson.    Barrie,  Ont. 

218  F.  L.  Flov,    Petertaoro,  Ont. 

220  J.  M.  Bandtel.   Milwaukee.  Wis. 

221  .1.  H.  Brubaker,   Grand   Fiapids. 

222  Thuss  Bros.,    Nashville,  Tenn. 

223  Hostetler's  Stu'o.    Davenp't.  la. 

224  O.  P.  Havens,    Jacksonv'le.  Fla. 
224a  Charles  Lewis,   Bad  Axe,  Mich. 

225  C.  Rosevear,    Toronto,  Ont. 

226  Miss  J.  Fleming,  Joplin,  Mo. 
226a  F.  T.  Leatherdale.    Toronto. 

227  C.  Aylett,   Toronto,  Ont. 

227a  H.  H.  Topping,    Battle  Creek. 

228  George  Freeland,   Toronto. 

229  John  Kennedy,    Toronto,    Ont. 

230  Walter  Dickson,   Toronto. 

231  T.  Mendall.     Peterboro,  Ont. 

232  W.  G.  Rounds.    Woodst'ck,  Ont. 

233  F.  W.  Webster,    Des  Moines,  la. 

234  C.  F.  Townsend,  Des  Moines,  la. 

235  H.  M.  Anschutz,  Keokuk,  la. 

The  pictures  were  a  feast  not 
only  for  the  novice  attending  his 
first  convention,  but  for  the  hard- 
ened old  convention  goer  of 
many  years  standing. 

The  various  manufacturers  of 
photographic  ])ai)ers  had  likewise 
remarkably  attractive  displaj's, 
the  collection  of  exquisite  prints 
on  Aristo,  Collodio  Carbon,  An- 
gelo,  Nepera  and  the  new  Etch- 
ing Black  Platinum  papers  of  the 
Eastman  Kodak  Com])any,  oc- 
cupying the  entire  south  gallery, 
and  extending  fully  half  way 
along  the  east  gallery,  were  at 
all  times  the  center  of  an  inter- 
ested and  pleased  throng. 

Every  inch  of  s|)ace  on  the 
main  floor  of  the    spacious   hall 


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was  taken  up  by  the  handsomely 
decorated  booths  devoted  to  the 
various  trade  exhibits. 

When  the  announcement  was 
make  at  Detroit  last  j'ear  of  the 
selection  of  Rochester  for  the 
next  convention,  the  Eastman 
Kodak  Company  stated  that  they 
would  step   back  and  make   no 


The  motlel  shared  the  honors  with  tlie 
demonstrator— Rochester  Herald 

selection  of  space  for  exhibiting 
at  the  Rochester  convention  until 
every  other  intending  exhibitor 
had  made  selection  and  reserva- 
tion. 

\Mien  all  reservations  had  been 
made,  it  was  seen  that  the  entire 
space  of  the  main  floor  had  been 
taken,  making  it  imi)ossible  for 
the  company  to  make  a  full  dis- 
play, and  therefore  nothing  but 
pictures  were  showai  and  those  in 
the  gallery. 

The  various  factories  devoted 
to  the  manvifacture  of  photo- 
graphic goods,  were  naturally  of 
great  mterest  to  the  visitors,  and 


by  means  of  a  carefully  prepared 
schedule,  Avhlch  did  not  in  any 
way  conflict  with  the  convention 
program,  the  Company  was  en- 
abled to  invite  the  visitors  to  in- 
siK'ct  them.  It  is  needless  to 
state  that  practically  every  pho- 
tographer in  attendance  took  ad- 
vantage of  the  invitation  and 
highly  interested  parties  thronged 
all  the  factories  during  visitors 
hours. 

Kodak  Park,  the  immense 
plant  devoted  to  the  manufacttn-e 
of  sensitized  products  was,  of 
course,  the  center  of  attraction, 
and  on  Wednesday  the  jihotog- 
grai)hers  visited  the  park  in  a 
body,  on  special  invitation  of  the 
Company ;  details  of  the  visit  are 
afforded  in  the  reprint  from  the 
Rochester  Herald  published  else- 
where in  this  issue. 

On  Wednesday,  Manufactm-ers 
Day,  before  visiting  Kodak  Park, 
the  visitors  were  given  a  thorough 
exi)osition  of  high-grade  lens 
making  bj'  the  Bausch  &  Lomb 
Optical  Companj%  a  complete 
plant  showing  all  the  pi'ocesses, 
being  sjiecially  erected  in  their 
new  building.  Light  refresh- 
ments were  served  and  the  visit- 
ors had  a  highly  enjoyable  time. 

Rochester  as  a  city  was  par- 
ticularly cognizant  of  the  visit  of 
the  photograi)hers,  as  the  pho- 
tographic industry  is  so  closely 
allied  with  its  welfare ;  many  of 
the  buildings,  and  all  of  the  pho- 
tographic factories  being  hand- 
somely decorated. 


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The  comfort  and  entertain- 
ment of  the  visiting  ladies  Avere 
amply  provided  for.  On  Monday 
evening  an  informal  reception 
was  held  in  Assembly  Hall  in 
the  Hotel  Seneca,  and  on  Tues- 
daj'  afternoon  they  were  tendered 
a  special  outing,  a  boat  ride  on 
Irondequoit  Bay,  and  picnic  by 
the  Rochester  Section  of  the  P. 
S.  S.  of  N.  Y.  The  ladies  were, 
of  course,  much  in  evidence  at 
the  regular  sessions  of  the  con- 
vention and  at  all  the  other  en- 
tertainments provided  for  the 
members. 

On  Thursday  evening  the 
members  and  their  wives  and 
friends  were  the  guests  of  the 
Eastman  Kodak  Company  at  a 
picnic  dinner  and  entertainment 
at  Ontario  Beach  Park,  Roch- 
ester's favorite  resort. 

Through  some  slij)  on  the  ]iart 
of  the  weather  man,  just  before 
time  for  the  visitors  to  start  for 
the  lake — down  came  the  rain, 
the  gf)od  old  fashioned  kind,  that 
indicated  a  determination  to  keej) 
it  up  all  night,  even  if  it  took  all 
the  water  in  the  lake  to  do  it. 
But  for  once  the  Aveather  man 
was  doomed  to  disappointment, 
the  more  it  rained  the  better  the 
photographers  seemed  to  like  it, 
as  with  jokes,  smiles  and  um- 
brellas they  dashed  wildly  for  the 
special  cars  that  were  to  carry 
them  to  the  lake. 

The  Eastman  Company  had 
announced  the  entertainment  as 
an  informal  one,  and  their  guests 


took  them  at  their  word,  and 
proceeded  to  enjoj'  themselves 
to  the  limit. 

Fully  two  thousand  members 
and  their  friends  passed  through 
the  gates  and  were  seated  at  the 
tabk-s  on  the  immense  camas- 
covered  platform   for    the  picnic 


It  (/((/  rain  a  little— Kuchustcr  llcrald 

dinner.  Fortunately  the  rain 
aliated  somewhat  during  the 
dinner  hour,  allowing  the  guests 
to  dine  in  comfort. 

A  happy  incident  of  the  din- 
ner was  a  surprise  on  the  pojiu- 
lar  President  Frank  R.  Barrows. 

The  members  of  the  Photog- 
raphers' Association  of  America 
presented  to  him  as  president  a 
beautiful  gold  watch  and  chain 
and  some  incidentals  which  the 
good  humor  of  his  friends  sug- 
gested. The  value  of  the  watch 
is  ^oOO.  The  inscription  on  the 
inside  cover    of  the  watch  is: 


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"Presented  to  F.  R.  Barrows 
by  the  boys  of  the  P.  A.  of  A., 
'09."  Mr.  Barrows'  monogram 
is  engraved  on  the  back  of  the 
tmiepiece. 

The  presentation  of  the  time- 
piece came  near  the  close  of  the 
dinner,  and  the  donors  Avere  rep- 
resented by  H.  A.  Colhngs.  of 
the  Eastman  Kodak  Comjiany. 
Mr.  Barrows  and  Mr.  Colhngs 
have  been  intimate  friends  for 
many  years,  and  the  latter  was 
torn  by  conflicting  emotions  as 
he  gave  his  little  talk,  his  jovial 
nature  struggling  hard  to  over- 
come the  jiressure  of  sentimen- 
tal considerations.  President 
Barrows  gave  eveiy  evidence  of 
being  deeply  touched  by  the 
thoughtfulness  of  his  friends  and 
associates,  who  had  taken  occa- 
sion to  mark  the  completion  by 
their  president  of  a  decade  of 
faithful  service. 

During  a  lull  in  the  music,  Mr. 
Collings  climbed  upon  a  talile 
and  after  recovering  his  poise 
was  seen  struggling  to  haul 
someone  up  to  his  perch.  He 
soon  had  President  Barrows  be- 
side him  and  endeavored  to  still 
the  enthusiasm  Avhich  the  ap- 
pearance of  Mr.  Barrows  kindled 
in  the  guests. 

"Frankie,"  said  Mr.  Collings, 
addressing  Mr.  Barrows  when 
there  was  something  like  silence, 
"  I  want  to  remind  you  that  this 
is  the  tenth  anniversary  of  your 
election.  If  I  were  to  recall  all 
the  things   that  have  hajjpened 


during  that  time  you  would  bawl, 
I  would  bawl  and  I  wouldn't  be 
able  to  perfonn  the  duty  which 
has  been  entrusted  to  me. 

"  I  am  going  to  take  your  coat 
off.  I  see  your  vest  is  soiled. 
Well,  the  boys  have  bought  you 
a  nice  new  one.  Here,  put  this 
on  (forcing  Mr.  Barrows'  arms 
through  the  armholes  in  the  gar- 
ment.) I  think  you  will  like  it 
better,  and  there  is  a  watch  in 
one  of  the  pockets  that  you  may 
find  convenient  at  times,  Frankie. 

"  After  we  got  the  vest  we  had 
a  little  money  left  and  we  got  the 
Avatch.  Then  Ave  found  a  little 
more  money  left  and  Ave  got  a 
chain.  There  Avas  still  some  more 
left  over,  and  Ave  decided  to  have 
a  drink.  When  Ave  ordered  the 
drink  we  found  that  none  of  us 
drank  anything  stronger  than 
liuttermilk,  and  there  Avas  three 
cents  left  after  each  of  the  five 
had  his  milk,  so  I  Avill  put  the 
three  cents  in  this  A'est  pocket. 
Again,  Ave  thought  you  might  be 
embarrassed  after  you  Avere  given 
this  little  present  and  we  bought 
a  box  of  cigars  so  that  if  you 
lacked  words  to  express  your- 
self you  could  distribute  the 
smokes.  Noav  that  is  all, 
Frankie . " 

"  I  Avant  to  assure  you,  ladies 
and  gentlemen,  that  I  Aalue  this 
token  very  highly."  said  Mr. 
BarroAvs  when  he  had  recovered 
sufficiently  fi-om  the  sui'prise. 
"  I  shall  take  this  token  back 
home.      If  you   feel  toAvard  me 


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as  I  feel  toward  you  we  shall 
live  together  in  eternity." 

There  was  a  demonstration  by 
the  guests,  who  drowned  the 
music  with  their  cheers  and 
handclapping.  The  dark  clouds, 
the  rain  trickling  through  sag- 
ging spots  in  the  canvas  and  the 
equally  disagreeable  weather 
were  forgotten. 

When  the  dinner  ended  there 
Avere  cheers  for  Mr.  Eastman  and 
those  active  in  the  arrangements 
for  the  entertainment.  The 
cheers  were  followed  by  calls  for 
a  speech  from  Mr.  Eastman,  and 
the  calls  became  so  insistent  that 
he  was  helped  upon  the  table, 
where  he  spoke  with  charac- 
teristic brevity. 

"  In  behalf  of  my  fellow  di- 
rectors and  myself,"  said  Mr. 
Eastman,  "  I  wish  to  thank  you 
for  yom-  greeting  and  for  your 
presence  here.  We  think  it  is  a 
great  compliment  that  so  many 
of  you  have  come  here  for  the 
convention.    I  thank  you  again." 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  din- 


ner the  visitors  devoted  the  re- 
mainder of  the  evening  to  visiting 
the  various  concessions  and  danc- 
ing, tickets  to  all  of  Avhich  had 
been  supplied  l)y  their  host,  the 
Eastman  Kodak  Companj'. 

On  Friday  afternoon  the  De- 
fender Photo  Supply  Co.,  and 
the  Seneca  Camera  Co.,  joined 
forces  in  entertaining  the  visitors 
with  a  Roastfest  at  Moerlbach 
Park  where  the  visitors  were 
royally  entertained. 

Friday  evening  provided  an- 
other very  pleasant  entertainment 
at  Assembly  Hall,  the  members 
enjoying  themselves  heartih'  with 
dancing  and  renewing  old  friend- 
ships and  cementing   new  ones. 

Saturday  morning  witnessed 
the  last  regular  session  of  the 
convention,  with  a  i-emarkably 
large  attendance  for  the  last  day. 

The  close  of  the  Con\ention 
and  its  long  round  of  duties  and 
pleasures  found  the  members  still 
interested  and  enthusiastic  over 
the  most  successful  convention  in 
the  historj'  of  the  P.  A.  of  A. 


19 1  o  ^^  ^--LSsQ^ 

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HARMONY 
Dear  Mr.  Editor : 

I  never  saw  such  har- 
mony. Even  the  lobster  at  your 
picnic  dinner  agreed  with  me. 

I'm  glad  that  I  rubbed  the 
dust  off  my  old  traveling  bag  and 
came  to  your  town.  The  only 
sore  spot  in  me  is  the  one  I  got 
in  the  back  of  my  neck  from 
standing  at  the  foot  of  your  366- 
foot  smoke  stack  and  looking  up 
at  the  top  of  it.  Everyl)ody 
seemed  to  want  everybody  else 
to  have  a  good  time.  Even  the 
man  behind  the  wire  wicket  in 
the  hotel  cashed  my  check  with- 
out a  murmur. 

The  dove  of  peace  sure  hung 
over  Rochester  and  any  sport- 
loving  indi\'idual  who  came  to 
the  city  photographic  thinking 
he  was  going  to  have  the  fun  of 
watching  a  scraji,  must  have  felt 
like  he  had  stumbled  in  on  a 
peace  tribunal  at  the  Hague. 
True,  I  caught  competing  man- 
ufacturers showing  their  teeth  at 
each  other,  but  in  everj^  case  the 
teeth  w^ere  back  of  a  genuine 
smile  and  accompanied  by  a 
hearty  hand  shake  that  spoke 
for  a  removal  of  all  bitterness 
from  future  competition.  You 
and  the  other  Rochester  manu- 
facturers made  good  on  your 
promise  (made  at  Detroit  a  year 
ago)  to  let  the  out-of-town  peo- 
ple have  their  pick  of  S])ace  in 
Convention  Hall  and  then  take 
what   was    left.      And    what    is 


eciually  to  the  point,  the  visiting 
manufacturers  made  good  by 
showing  their  appreciation  of  the 
action  of  the  Rochester  people. 
It  was  Harmony  in  capital  let- 
ters and  a  harmony  so  much  ap- 
j^reciated  that  I  hope  its  effect 
Avill  Ite  lasting.  Let's  have  more 
of  it  all  along  the  line.  Take  a 
look  through  jour  mental  stereo- 
scoj)e,  boys,  and  get  things  in 
their  pro])er  relation  to  each 
other.  When  your  competitor 
(l)hotographer,  dealer  or  manu- 
facturer) seems  to  be  unfair,  just 
try  to  take  a  look  fi-om  his  point 
of  view.  Perhaps  his  is  better 
than  yours.  This  question  of 
view-point  has  always  been  a 
hobliy  of  mine  and  touches  so 
closely  on  my  subject,  "  har- 
mony." that  I  want  to  ask  you 
to  i)ulilish  these  verses  by  Will 
Cundill.  You  see  he  can  do 
something  beside  making  good 
photographs : 

DIFFERENT  POINT  OF  VIEW 

Will  Cundill,  Maquoketa,  Iowa 

This  world  is  what  you  see  of  it,  as  life  you 

journey  through. 
And  nothing  in  it  happens,  that  looks  the 

same  to  two. 
The  very  self-same  feature,  in  the  verj' 

self-same  game. 
To  the  hest  of  friends  and  neighbors,  will 

never  look  the  same. 

A  friendship  may  be  broken,  and  lost  be- 
yond recall. 

In  a  foolish  controversy,  about  a  game  of 
ball. 

When  two  good-natured  people,  both  up- 
right, square  and  true. 

Just  iiappen  to  be  looking,  from  a  differ- 
ent point  of  view. 

Don't  call  your  friend  a  "  knocker,"  if 

with  him  you  don't  agree, 
His  judgment  is  as  dear  to  him,  as  ours  to 

you  and  me. 


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He's  a  risht  to  his  opinions,  .iiul  to  ex- 
press them,  too. 

For  it  may  he  he  was  lookinjr,  from  a  het- 
ter  point  of  view. 

And  if  you  meet  some  others,  who  think 
tlic  same  as  he. 

Don't  intimate  they're  aged,  and  say  tliey 
cannot  see. 

Their  vision  and  their  judgment,  may  seem 
at  fault  to  you. 

When  perliaps  they  all  were  looking  from 
a  better  point  of  view. 

And  when  luck  seems  against  you,  don't 
let  your  feet  get  cold. 

Or  be  a  howling  quitter,  and  claim  tlie 
game  was  sold. 

Don't  call  the  umpire  rotten,  and  make 
the  air  look  blue. 

It  may  be  he  was  looking,  from  a  better 
point  of  view. 

And  if  you  back  your  judgment  with 
money  on  the  game. 

Don't  squeal  if  you're  a  loser,  keep  smil- 
ing just  the  same. 

The  man  who  wins  your  money  was  no 
more  sure  than  you. 

But  lie  happened  to  be  looking,  from  a 
better  point  of  view. 

In  the  long  run.  Truth  is  mighty,  and  tlie 
right  will  always  w'in. 

So  be  honest  and  above-board,  in  every 
deal  you're  in. 

And  when  you  meet  a  neighbor  who  don't 
agree  with  you. 

Just  remember  he  is  looking,  from  a  dif- 
ferent point  of  view. 

It  means  a  lot  for  future  con- 
ventions and  for  futin-e  good  of 
the  btisiness  if  the  spirit  of  Har- 
mony dispensed  by  Past  Presi- 
dent BarroAvs  and  the  Rochester 
bunch  can  be  kept  in  circidation. 
Now  for  Milwaukee !  Hurrah  for 
Harmony !  Stereoscope. 


npOO    BUSY 

-*-  Deare  Edditor:  I  prom- 
ised yoti  a  story  about  the  Con- 
vention but  the  boss  has  kep  me 
so  darn  liusy  since  we  got  back 
that  I  aint  had  no  time  to  write 
it  yet.  Will  wait  till  he  goes  fish- 
in'  nex'  time.  Yours respekfully. 
The  Office  Boy. 


ONE-FIFTY 
PER  CABINET  GROSS 

N  E  P  E  R  A 

On  and  after  August  15th  the 
price  of  Nepera  j^aper  will  be 
one  dollar  and  a  half  per  gross, 
cabinet  size,  Avith  other  sizes  in 
proportion. 

The  Nepera  business  has 
grown  steadilj'  for  two  years. 
Every  month  shows  an  increased 
number  of  Nejiera  c(*nsumers  and 
an  increased  constnnption  of  Ne- 
pera paper.  With  the  growing 
volume  of  the  business  and  with 
our  new  developing-out  paper 
btiilding,  having  a  coating  capac- 
ity of  a  million  square  feet  of 
paper  per  day,  we  can  afford  to 
make  this  reduction.  Nepera 
sales  have  been  increasing  rapidly 
at  the  two  dollar  price  against 
other  papers  at  a  similar  list.  At 
the  new  price  it  is  going  to  move 
even  more  rapidly. 

Remember  too,  that  the  Royal 
Nepera  in  either  pure  white  or 
India  tint  is  practically  a  double 
weight  paper,  at  the  single 
weight  price.  There  has  never 
before  been  so  much  value  offered 
in  a  sensitized  photogi'aphic  i)ro- 
duct. 

Nepera  paper  is  ftmiished  in 
professional  sizes  only,  in  matte, 
velvet  and  rough  in  lioth  single 
and  double  weight.  The  Royal 
Nepera  is  furnished  in  one  weight 
only,   and  at  the  single  weight 


36 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


list  but  is  very  nearly  the  full 
doul>le  Avcioht  thickness  and  is 
known  as,  "  the  paper  that  for- 
gets to  curl. ' '  The  Royal  is  how- 
ever,   furnished    in    two    colors, 

India  tint ' '  and  pure  Avhite, 
and  has  made  close  friends  of 
many  photogra])hers  who  are 
making  a  specialty  of  sepia  prints. 
Redevelojied  prints  on  Royal 
Nepera  delivered  in  folders  bring 
the  extra  })rices. 

There  is  a  surface  for  your 
every  want  and  you  can't  buy  a 
better  development  paper  at  any 
price.  The  full  list  is  published 
in  the  advertising  section. 


/^UR    ILLUSTRATIONS 

^-^  We  have  an  unusual  va- 
riety in  our  illustrations  in  this 
issue. 

The  cover  page  illustration 
and  a  numl>er  of  the  others  are 
from  the  prize  winning  exhibits 
on  Collodio-Carbon  of  Mr.  C.  L. 
Venard  of  Lincoln,  Illinois,  who 
was  awarded  the  first  prize  in 
Classes  A  and  B  at  the  I909  Illi- 
nois State  Convention. 

We  also  reproduce  two  of  the 
pictures  made  at  the  Convention 
vSchool,  one  by  Mr.  A.  F.  Brad- 
ley and  one  by  F.  Milton  Somers. 

The  cartoons  are  reproduced 
from  issues  of  the  Rochester 
Herald  published  durmg  the 
Convention. 


OODAS  IN  25-LB.  CANS 

*^~^  We  have  always  been  par- 
ticularly careful  about  the  purity 
of  the  chemicals  put  up  by  us 
for  photographic  use.  Our  busi- 
ness  in  such  chemicals  grew 
steadily  for  many  years  not  be- 
cause we  pushed  it  with  any  vig- 
or but  simply  because  the  qual- 
ity of  the  goods  we  put  out 
brought  repeat  orders.  A  full 
realization  of  what  we  could  do 
directly  for  all  users  of  sensitized 
photographic  goods,  and  indi- 
rectly for  our  sale  of  such  goods 
by  putting  out  and  pushing  a 
a  full  line  of  tested  chemicals, 
induced  us  a  few  years  ago  to 
equip  a  special  department  and 
cover  the  entire  line  with  pure 
chemicals.  The  growth  of  this 
department  has  been  inarvelous- 
ly  rapid,  and  many  large  con- 
sumers are  finding  it  worth  while 
to  specify  Kodak  Tested  Chemi- 
cals when  they  order. 


Every  package 
bears  this  trade 
mark : 


Our  latest  additions  to  the  line 
are  Carbonate  of  Soda  and  Sul- 
phite of  Soda  in  25-lb.  cans. 

The  Price 
Kodak  Carbonate  of  Soda  per 

25-lb.  can $3.50 

Kodak  Sulphite  of  Soda,  per 

25-lb.  can 5.50 

Order  from  vour  dealer. 


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37 


EASTMAN'S  ETCHING 
BLACK   PLATLNUM 

Distinctive. 

Distinctive — that's  the  word 
that  best  describes  the  new 
l)latininn  paper,  Eastman's  Etch- 
ino-  Black.  No,  it's  not  in  imita- 
tion of  any  other  paper,  it  is  de- 
cidedly away  from  the  ordiiKuy 
cold  blue-black  platinum  that 
you  are  acquainted  with.  The 
l)latinum  gradation  is  there,  the 
richness  of  platinum  blacks  is 
there,  but  there's  a  pleasing 
warmth  that  you  do  not  find  in 
other  black  and  white  jjlatinums. 
It's  a  paper  that  the  best  i)hotog- 
rapher  in  y<nir  town  is  going  to 
adopt — and  after  him,  others. 

The  manipulation  of  the  East- 
man E.  B.  Platinum  is  a  per- 
fectly simple  cold  development 
process  and  it  will  not,  therefore, 
be  in  any  way  handicapped  liy 
complications.      There    are    two 


surfaces — "smooth  and  rough"  — 
and  the  weight  of  the  paper  is 
practically  the  same  as  that  of 
Angelo  Sepia  Platinum. 

Eastman's  Etching  Black  was 
the  new  good  thing  at  the  con- 
vention in  the  paper  line,  and 
the  large  display  on  it  was  given 
carefid  attention  by  the  people 
who  were  here  for  business  and 
wanted  to  investigate  up-to-date 
goods.  It  has  the  quality  that 
will  ajipeal  to  the  most  exclusive 
patronage  of  the  best  studio  in 
town.  It's  away  from  the  com- 
mon-))lace,  yet  leaves  nothing  to 
ask  for  in  photographic  (juality  or 
simplicity  of  manipulation. 

The  price   is  the   same  as 
Angelo  Sepia. 
Developer  for  Eastman's  E.  B. 
Platinum  Paper 
Eastman's  E.  B.  Developer, 

per  1-lb.  pkg.  .  .     $  .60 

Do.,  per  1  2-lb.  pkg.  .  .  .35 
Do.,  per  14-lb.  pkg.      .         .         .20 

At  all  stock  dealers  of  course. 


B 


U  L  L  E  T  I  N  :   THE  EASTMAN  SCHOOL  OF 
PROFESSIONAL  PHOTOGRAPHY  FOR  11)09 


Auspices   Mullett    Bros.    Photo   Supply  Co.,    Kansas   City,    Mo., 
August  3,  4,  5. 

Northwestern   Photog.  Convention,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,    September 
2,  3,  4. 

Auspices  Duffin  &  Co.,  Winnipeg,  Man.,  September  8,  9,  10. 


38 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


THE  EASTMAN  GRAV- 
ITY PRINTER 

There  has  been  an  insistent 
demand  for  a  simple,  inexpensive 
and  rapid  printer  for  developing 
out  papers  that  could  be  cpiickly 
installed  and  used  with  any  light. 

The  Eastman  Gravity  Printer 
meets   this   demand    in    a    most 


Fig.  1 

satisfactory  manner,  as  it  is  ex- 
ceedingly simple  in  construction 
and  operation,  and  can  be  used 
with  daylight  or  any  form  of 
artificial  illumination.  Uni- 
formity of  exposure  is  one  of  the 
strongest  points,  as  the  duration 
of  exposure  is  so  regulated  as  to 
make  variation  in  a  given  speed 
practically  impossible. 

As  shown  in  illustrations  1  and 
2,  the  Eastman  Gravitj^  Printer 


consists  of  a  cabinet,  in  one  side 
of  which  is  an  adjustable  opening 
for  regulating  the  exposure,  and 
a  simple  clock-work  mechanism 
for  lowering  and  raising  a  carrier 
containing  an  ordinary  five  by 
seven  printing  frame  past  the 
opening. 


Fig.  2 

The  exposure  opening  is  fitted 
with  an  adjustable  metal  slide 
with  graduated  stops,  affording 
exposure  apertures  fi-om  7  inches 
to  ^4  of  an  inch,  and,  with  a 
printing  frame  and  negative  of 
average  weight,  will  aiford  an 
approximate  exposure  of  one 
second  per  inch  of  opening.  For 
instance,  if  the  aperture  is  7 


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39 


inches,  the  exposure  will  be 
approximately  7  seconds.  See 
illustrations  3  and  4.  Illustration 
4  shows  niethf)d  of  adjusting 
exposure  aperture. 


FiK.  3 

When  the  weight  actuating 
the  clock-work  mechanism  swings 
fi-ee,  it  will  descend  and  thus 
raise  the  printing  fi-anie  carrier 
just  past  the  exposure  aperture. 
The  printer  is  installed  with  the 
exposure  apei'ture  scjuarely  facing 
the  exposing  light,  and  with  the 
light  so  adjusted  as  to  come  about 
the  center  of  the  aperture  when 
fully  open,  and  at  a  distance  of 
about  7  inches  from  the  opening, 


to  afford  even  illumination.  Illus- 
tration 5  shows  the  printer  in  use 
with  two  incandescent  gas  lamps. 


Fig.  4 

When  desired,  the  exposing 
light  may  be  boxed  in  by  means 
of  strijis  of  asliestos  or  metal  in- 
serted in  the  grooves  in  the  outer 
casing,  on  each  side  of  the  ex- 
posure aperture. 

When  ready  to  print,  the 
loaded  printing  frame  is  inserted 
in  the  carrier,  as  shown  in  illus- 
tration 2,  with  the  negative  facing 
the  exposure  aperture :  when  re- 
leased its  own  weight  will  carry 
it  down  past  the  exposing  light, 
as  shown  in  illustration  No.  4, 
the  exposure  continuing  until  the 
carrier  has  reached  the  bottom  of 
the  shaft. 


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STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


Fig.  5 

The  carrier  returns  instantly 
when  the  exposed  fi-ame  is  re- 
moved, and  while  one  exposure 
is  being  made,  another  printing 
frame  may  be  loaded  ready  for 
insertion  in  the  carrier. 

The  many  advantages  of  the 
Eastman  Gravity  Printer  are 
apparent  at  a  glance,  and  its  ease 
of  installation,  and  low  price, 
ten  dollars,  will  particularly 
commend  it  to  the  professional 
using  developing  papers. 

Order  through  your  dealer. 


Studio 

Advertising' 

Pays 


Take  advantage 
of  our  advertising 
cut  service. 

The  cut  for  the 
month  is  shown  on 
page  44. 

The  price  is  50 
cents. 

Order  hy  number. 


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41 


New  NEPERA  List 

N'KPERA  is  not  furnislied  in  dozens  in  sizes  smaller  than  5  x  7,  or  in  rolls 
shorter  than  ten  yards,  unless  as  listed  below. 


SINGLE  WEIGHT. 

DOUBLE  WEIGHT 

CABINET  ^ 

Dozen 

V2  Gross 

Gross 

3's  X5I2 

Dozen 

1 2  Gross 

Gross 

$.85 

$1.50 

J         4X5          V 
^    4I4  X  51 2     ( 

I      3">8X578 
'         4X6        / 

$1.00 

Si  .90 

1.15 

1.95 

4I4  X6l'2 

1.45 

2.45 

1.30 

2.20 

4^4  X  6I2 

1.60 

2.75 

.25 

1.45 

2.40 

5X7 

.30 

1.85 

3.00 

.:W 

1.60 

2.65 

5  X  7H 

.35 

2.00 

3.30 

.30 

1.60 

2.70 

5X8 

.35 

2.00 

3.40 

.35 

1.75 

S.OO 

512x734 

.40 

2.20 

3.75 

.10 

2.05 

3.60 

6X8 

.45 

2.55 

4.50 

.40 

2.20 

3.85 

6l 2  X  8li 

.50 

2.75 

4  80 

.45 

2.50 

4.50 

7X9 

.55 

3.10 

5.65 

.50 

2.80 

5.25 

712x91-2 

.70 

3.55 

6.55 

.55 

3.15 

5.85 

8  X  10 

.75 

3.95 

7.30 

.70 

3.80 

7  20 

9X11 

.90 

4.75 

9.00 

.85 

4.75 

9.00 

10  X  12 

1.15 

5.95 

11.25 

1.10 

6.30 

11.70 

11  X  14 

1.45 

7.90 

14.65 

1.25 

7.45 

13.95 

12  X  15 

1.75 

9.30 

17.45 

1.65 

9.45 

18.00 

14  X  17 

2.25 

11.80 

22.50 

i.iO 

12.00 

24..30 

16  X20 

3.05 

15.75 

30.40 

2.40 

13.50 

28.10 

17  X20 

3.25 

16.90 

32.65 

2.70 

15.75 

30.60 

18  X  22 

3.85 

19.70 

38.25 

3.15 

18.45             36.00 

20  X  24 

4.50 

23.05 

45.00 

Gross  and  half-frross  paekaires  of  cut  sheets  of  paper  of  sizes  not  listed  vill 
w  ill  be  supplied  providing;  the  order  amounts  to  Si. 00  list  or  more,  and  list  of 
s.inie  will  be  practicalh  proportionate  to  that  of  listed  sizes. 

NEPERA  SECONDS  furnished  in  limited  quantities  in  all  surfaces  in  3",s  x 
5' ;  (Cabinet  i  and  4X6  only. 
Sinirle  Weight,  .         $1.00  per  srross    |    Double  Weight,         .        $1.25  per  gross 

ROLLS 


SINGLE  WEIGHT. 

double  weight. 

10  ft.  Roll,  20  inches  wide. 

$1.50 

10  ft.  Roll,  20  inches  wid 

e. 

$1.90 

10  ft. 

■■        40        " 

3.00 

10  ft.    ' 

40 

3.75 

10  vd. 

"        20       '■ 

4.50 

10  yd.  ' 

20       " 

5.65 

10  yd. 

"        40       ■' 

9.00 

10  yd.  • 

40       '■ 

11.25 

Rolls  10  yards  or  longer 

ire  supp 

ied  in  an> 

•  width  up  to  40 

inches. 

For  Pr 

IXTS    FRO 

I    CiRKUT 

Negatives 

SINGLE  WEIGHT. 

DOUBLE  weight. 

e'l  in.     8  in.      10  in. 

16  in. 

6'  7  in.     8  in. 

10  in. 

16  in. 

25  ft. 

Si. 25        $1.50       $1.90 

$3.00 

25  ft. 

$1.60       $1.90 

$2.i?5 

$3.75 

50  ft. 

2.50          3.00          3.75 

6.00 

50  ft. 

3.15          3.75 

4.75 

7.50 

loo  ft. 

4.95           6.00           7.50 

12.00 

100  ft. 

6.30          7.50 

9.45 

15.00 

CANADIAN    KODAK   CO.,  Ltd.,  Toronto,  Can. 


42  STUDIO   LIGHT   r/«r/ 


$50000 

FOR  ONE  SIMPLE  PICTURE 


Total  Prizes 

$2000'^ 


IN  THE 


Kodak 

Advertising  Contest 

CONTEST  CLOSES  OCTOBER  FIRST 
FULL  PARTICULARS  ON  REQUEST 


Eastman  Kodak  Co, 

Rochester,  Neic  York 


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43 


Commer- 

—1 

Per             Per 

Per 

Per 

cial 

Size               I2D0Z.        Doz. 

}  2  Gross 

Gross 

2I4X2I4 

§  .15 

8  .60 

81.05 

2i,x2i, 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

Arts  to 

2I4X3I4 
214x31, 

.15 
.15 

.60 
.60 

1.05 
1.05 

Platino 

214x33] 
21  ,  X  4I4 

.15 

.15 

.60 
.60 

1.05 
1.10 

3  'x4 

.15 

.60 

1.05 

31 ,  X  31/, 

.15 

.70 

1.30 

3I4X414 

.15 

.70 

1.30 

31,  X  4 

.15 

.70 

1.30 

2i;x7 

.18 

.75 

4     x4 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

41^x414 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

3I4X6 

.18 

.75 

1.45 

3I4X5I7 
4x5" 

.18 
.18 

.75 

.75 

1.45 
1.45 

ROLLS 

3^8x51/2 

.25 

.95 

1.75 

10  ft.  Roll  241  _, 

0 '  g  X  5 ;  3 

.80 

1.10 

1.95 

ins.  wide.  .81.95 

4I4X5I/2 

.30 

1.10 

1.95 

5  yd.  Roll  241:, 

4      x6 

.25 

.95 

1.75 

ins.  wide.  .82.80 

4I4X6I3 

.30 

1.30 

2.25 

10  yd.  Roll  241  , 
ins.  wide. .85.15 

44x61, 
4      x9 

.30 
.35 

1.50 
1.75 

2.60 
2.85 

5x7 

.35 

1.70 

2.75 

(Furnished  only 

5     X  71 , 

.35 

1.80 

3.00 

in    241,     inch 

5      x8 

.35 

1.80 

3.15 

widths.) 

51 ,  X  73^ 

.40 

1.95 

3.45 

31 ;  X  12 

6  'x8 

.35 
.45 

1.90 
2.30 

4.10 

61,  X  81 7 

.50 

2.50 

4.40 

7x9 

.55 

2.85 

5.15 

7i,x9i^ 

.60 

3.20 

6.00 

8  '  X  10 

.65 

3.60 

6.70 

9     xll 

8.70 

10    X  12 

'.            .95 

5.40 

10.30 

11    X  14         S 

65       1.25 

7.20 

13.45 

Canadian 

12    X  15 

14    X  17           1 

80        1.40 
00       1.90 

8.50 
10.80 

16.00 
20.65 

Kodak 

16    x20           1 

30       2.50 

14.80 

27.90 

17    x20           1 

40       2.75 

15.45 

29.95 

Co.,  Limited 

18    x22           1 

65       3.15 

18.00 

35.15 

20    x24           1 

95      3.(;o 

21.15 

41. SO 

Toronto,  Can. 

1 

44- 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


t 


THE  ONLY  CON- 
DITION 

We  make  but  one  condi- 
tion in  our  offer  of  cuts  for 
the  use  of  photographers. 

It    is    obvious    that    two 
photographers  in  the   same 
town  would  not  care  to  use 
the    same  cut,  and  we  are 
therefore  obHged    to  limit 
this  offer  to  one  photogra- 
pher in  a  town.      It  will  be 
a  case    of  first    come    first 
served.      The    first    order 
fi-om  a  city  will  be  promptly 
filled.   Succeeding  orders  (if 
any)    will  necessarily    be 
turned    doA\'n    and    the    re- 
mittance, of  course,  will  be 
returned.     It  is  also  obvious 
that  Ave  cannot,  on  account 
of  the  cost  of  the  drawings, 
furnish  any  large  variety  of 
cuts  at   the    nominal  prices 
quoted,    and    therefore   can 
offer  no  substitute  cut.     The 
thing   to   do  is  to  get  your 
order  in^rst,  as  it  Avould  not 
be  fair  to  give  the  man  Avho 
happens  to  get  in  his  order 
early  one  month,  a  permaiient 
advantage ;  we  shall  book  no 
orders  in  advance.    They 
must  always  specify  the  num- 
ber of  cut  desired.     If  later 
on  it  develops  that  there  is 
a  great  enough  demand  fur 
these  advertising  cuts  to  war- 
rant our  fumisliing  a  larger 
variety,  we  shall  be  glad  to 
do  so.        c.  K.  Co..  Ltd. 


/^UR  pictures  of  men 
^-^  /ooA- like  men.  They 
show  the  force,  energy, 
character  of  the  sitter. 
Tliey  are  portraits  that 
really  tell  something  of 
the  men  portrayed. 


Telephone  to-day  for 
an  appointment. 


The  Pyro  Studio 


No.  144 


//ze  AR  1ST  O   EAGLE  45 


For  the  best  Studio  in  town— 


EASl^MAN 


PLATINUM 

A  distinctive  paper — all  the  richness 
of  Platinum  blacks,  with  a  delicate 
pleasing  warmth  found  in  no  other 
black  and  white  Platinum. 

Two  Grades :     Smooth  and  Rough. 


Eastman  Kodak  Company 

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


THERE   IS   COMFORT 

as  well  as  CONVENIENXE  and  RESULTS  in  the 

EASTMAN  PLATE  TANK 

The  simple  loading  device  permits  the  loading  of 
the  plates  into  the  rack  in  a  few  seconds,  with- 
out scratching  or  marring. 

The  air-tight,  locking  co\er  allows  the  whole  tank 
to  be  reversed  —  710  Jishing  the  plate  rack  out  of 
the  solution  during  developme7it — and  the  hand  on 
the  dial  tells  you  when  development  will  be 
completed. 

Eastman  Plate  Tank,  5x7,         -  S  4.50 

Eastman  Plate  Tank,  8x  10,       -  10.00 

CANADIAN   KODAK  CO.,  Limited 

TORONTO,   CAN. 


48 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


WE  HAVE  IT 


Just  what  you 
The  Newcastle 
unmounted 
m  i  n  i  a  t  u  r  e 
prints. 


arelookinu^for. 
style  for 


Colors:  Broirn  for  Sepias  and  Grey  for  Black  and  White  tones. 
The  Newcastle  is  made  double  thickness,  water  silk  finish, 
colored  deckle  all  around,  etched  tissue ;  neat  crest  in  upper  left 
hand  corner.  You  just  tip  the  edges  of  the  print  with  paste  and 
place  it  in  folder.  They  are  for  any  style  of  print  in  backed 
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HY  IT  PAYS 


It  pays  to  buy  the  ^ood.s 
that  are  consistently  and  ])ersist- 
ently  advertised.  There  is  no 
greater  fallacy  than  that  contain- 
ed in  the  statement  that  non-ad- 
vertised goods  can  be  sold  cheaper 
because  the  expense  of  adver- 
tising is  not  added  to  their  cost. 

The  sole  reason  for  advertising 
is  to  create  a  market  and  an  ever 
growing  demand  for  the  product 
or  products  advertised. 

It  requires  no  lengthy  expla- 
nation to  demonstrate  that  anj' 
product  produced  in  large  quanti- 
ties can  be  manufactured  and 
sold  cheaper  than  those  made  in 
small  lots.  The  manufacturer  in 
large  quantities  can  not  only  de- 
crease the  cost,  but  at  the  same 
time  can  improve  ihc  quality.  The 
purchase  of  raw  materials  in  quan- 
tities can  command  the  market ; 
those  that  have  these  materials 
to  sell  are  anxious  for  his  trade 
— they  quote  him  the  lowest  fig- 
ures—  they  supi)ly  him  with  the 
choicest  grades  —  and  further, 
when  a  shortage  in  supply  occurs, 
the  large  purchaser  will  be  the 
one  favored  invariably. 


The  manufacturer  in  small 
quantities  must  put  up  with  in- 
ferior facilities  for  manufacture 
—  he  must,  in  view  of  his  small 
outjiut,  perform  many  of  the  oj)- 
erations  of  manufacture  by  hand, 
while  the  large  producer  can 
stand  the  expense  of  the  con- 
struction of  special  machinery 
that  will  perform  these  same  op- 
erations a  hundred  fold  cheaper 
and  better. 

The  small  manufacturer  in 
many  instances  is  at  the  mercy 
of  the  seller  of  raw  materials  as 
to  quality — the  large  producer 
can  and  does  have  in  his  service, 
experts  to  make  accurate  sci- 
entific tests  for  quality,  and  by 
so  doing  can  establish  a  standard 
of  quality  impossible  for  the 
smaller  concern. 

The  non-advertiser  or  semi- 
occasional  advertiser  has  a  smaller 
field  for  his  wares  and  can,  and 
in  fact  has  to  take  some  chances 
as  to  quality.  The  heavj'  adver- 
tiser, with  his  l)ig  output  and 
growing  field,  docs  not  dare  to 
take  any  chances  as  to  quality. 
He  must  make  his  products  live 
up  to  their  advertised  quality — 
in  fact,  if  he  is  wise  he  will,  and 


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usually  does,  make  them  even 
better  than  advertised  m  order 
to  please  the  ultra  fastidious. 

It  paj's  to  buy  the  well  adver- 
tised products  because  the  qual- 
ity has  to  be  there,  or  else  the  ad- 
vertising outlay  -would  become  an 
expense  instead  of  an  investment. 

In  some  instances  the  price  of 
the  advertised  goods  niaj"  be 
higher  than  that  of  the  other 
kind  —  but  the  quality  is  also 
higher  and  that's  what  counts. 


ANGELO  SEPIA  FROM 
TORONTO 

Increased   sales   and    growing 
popularity  with  the  best  photog- 
raphers  have    brought    about    a 
change  in  the  Angelo  Sepia  busi- 
ness, which  will  be  of  ben- 
efit   to    the    profession    in 
Canada.    From  September 
1st   this    paper    has    been 
supplied  from  Toronto  according 
to  the  list  given  on  page  29,  but 
only  in  the  sizes  shown,  the  de- 
mand for  other  sizes  not  being 
large  enough  to  warrant  packing 
them . 


A  SIMPLE   PRINT  DRY- 
ING MACHINE 

Practically  every  photographer 
has  some  pet  method  for  concave 
print  drying,  but  the  machine 
constructed  by  Mr.  L.  Frank 
Griffith,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  works 
so  well  and  is  so  easy  to  con- 
struct that  Ave  afford  a  description 
of  it  for  the  benefit  of  the  pro- 
fession in  general. 

As  shown  in  the  illustration 
the  machine  consists  of  two  slat- 


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ted,  wooden  ended  cylinders  or 
rolls,  fixed  in  a  swinging  frame, 
supported  by  uprights;  the  up- 
rights being  braced,  top  and  bot- 
tom, by  cross  pieces.  From  one 
cylinder  is  attached  the  end  of  a 


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roll  of  cheese  cloth,  and  of  blot- 
ting paper,  the  loose  ends  of  the 
cheese  cloth  and  blotting  paper 
are  then  brought  over  the  axis 
rod  supporting  the  SAvinging 
frame,  to  give  a  slight  tension, 
and  then  rolled  upon  the  other 
cylinder  for  a  few  tin-ns. 

To  use,  the  prints  are  first  sur- 
face dried  by  pressing  lightly  be- 
tween dry  blotters,  then  removed 
and  placed  between  the  blotting 
paper  and  the  cheese  cloth  with 
the  face  of  the  i)rint  against  the 
cheese  cloth.  The  cylinder  is 
then  revolved  by  means  of  the 
handle  shown  in  the  cut,  until 
all  the  prints  to  be  dried  have 
been  rolled  in. 

Under  average  conditions, 
where  a  current  of  air  can  strike 
the  machine,  the  prints  should 
dry  perfectly  over  night. 


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EADY   WHEN    THE 
BELL    RINGS 

"Hello!  is  this  249  Main  — 
Brown's  Studio?  How  do  jou 
do,  Mr.  Brown.  This  is  Mrs.  Got 
Cash.  The  children's  grandpa  is 
here  for  a  short  visit  and  I'd  like 
verj"  much  to  ha\e  you  come  out 
to  the  house  and  make  some 
pictin-es  of  him  and  the  children 
in  our  living  room.  No,  the  room 
is  rather  dark  in  furnishings,  but 
the  windows  are  good  size.  To- 
moiTow  afternoon  at  2 :  30  will 
suit  me  very  nicely.   Good-bye." 

Well  let's  see — that  means  a 


pretty  good  order,  and  though 
we  don't  do  much  in  the  home 
portraiture  line,  we'll  have  to 
tackle  this  job  and  deliver  the 
goods. 

"  Old  gentleman — he'll  stand 
for  a  time  exposure  all  right,  but 
the  children,  even  in  light 
dresses  means  a  mighty  short  ex- 
posure as  they  simplj'  can't  keep 
still. 

Frank,  bring  out  that  eight 
by  ten  view  box,  and  uncouple 
that  portrait  lens  from  the  studio 
camera.  No,  the  lens  board  is 
not  half  big  enough,  and  if  it 
Avere  the  front  was  never  made 
to  support  so  much  weight.  I'd 
like  mighty  well  to  take  advan- 
tage of  the  speed  of  that  portrait 
lens,  but  I'll  have  to  use  the 
smaller  and  slower  lens  and  take 
chances  on  the  children  mo\  ing. " 

Just  such  proi)ositions  as  this 
confront  us  every  once  in  a  while, 
and  if  they  find  us  unprepared 
—  well,  we  just  have  to  take 
chances,  and  at  the  first  opportu- 
nity guard  against  similar  hap- 
penings in  the  future. 

There  is  a  camera  ideal  for 
just  such  ])urposes,  though  it 
was  designed  for  other  work  — 
the  Improved  Sky  wScraper  Cam- 
era manufactured  by  the  Folmer 
&  Schwing  Division  of  the  East- 
man Kodak  Company. 

The  Sky  Scraper  Camera  was 
designed  for  use  in  photograph- 
ing tall  buildings,  and  other 
subjects  where  gi-eat  rise  of  front 
and    excessive    swing    back    are 


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necessary.  Just  right  for  such 
purposes,  the  Sky  Scraper  also  is 
just  right  for  home  portraiture 
work,  with  large  lenses.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  rising  front,  both 
vertical  and  horizontal  swings 
are  jjrovided,  t)perating  by  wonn 
screws.  Focusing  is  done  by 
means  of  finely  adjusted  rack 
and  pinion  and  the  back  is  re- 
versilile,  thus  providing  all  the 
convenient  adjustments  of  the 
up-to-date  studio  camera. 

Its  great  features  for  home 
portraiture  work,  are  its  strong 
and  extremely  rigid  fi-ont  and 
extra  large  lens  board,  the  one 
for  the  8x10  size  measuring  7  x 
7  inches,  the  1 1  x  1  ^j  S  x  8  inches, 
ample  in  every  way  to  accommo- 
date the  large,  extreme  speed 
portrait  lenses.  The  Sky  Scraper 
is  exceedingly  compact,  as  the  8 
X  10  measures  16^x13x7/^ 
inches  and  weighs  but  1 1  pounds. 
The  large  fi-ont  permits  the  fit- 
ting of  the  noiseless  Auto  Studio 
Shutter,  so  that  the  equii)ment 
provides  every  studio  camera  con- 
venience together  with  ordinary 
view  camera  portability. 

We  know  of  no  better  invest- 
ment than  one  of  these  instru- 
ments, as  they  are  fully  capable 
of  taking  care  of  most  of  the  out 
of  the  studio  requirements. 

The  Folmer  &  Schwing  Divis- 
ion makes  them  and  your  dealer 
will  be  verj'  pleased  to  afford  full 
particulars  on  request,  so  you  can 
be  prepared  when  next  the  bell 
rings. 


THREE     HANDY 
TABLES 

In  arranging  and  equipping 
our  model  studio  we  endeavored 
to  install  only  such  fixtures  as 
Avould  prove  thoroughly  practical 
and  convenient  and  a  help  in  the 
economy  of  both  time  and  labor. 

The  three  tables,  or  work 
benches,  described  in  this  article 
have  thoroughly  demonstrated 
their  pi-actical  efficiency  in  three 
years'  constant  use,  and  we  have 
found  no  necessity  for  any  modi- 
fications fi-om  the  original  plans. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  none  of 
the  shelving  or  cupboarding  ex- 
tends entirely  to  the  fioor  —  the 
free  space  allowing  the  floor  un- 
derneath the  benches  to  be  easily 
swept,  and  also  acts  as  a  i)rotec- 
tion  to  the  contents  of  the 
benches  from  dampness. 

The  table  in  the  printing  room 
— see  illustration  No.  1  — is  placed 
against  the  side  wall  of  the  room, 
just  out  of  range  from  the  light 
from  the  printing  window.  The 
top  is  pi'ovided  with  liack  and 
end  pieces  about  twelve  inches 
high,  the  back  forms  a  handy 
support  for  the  negatives  when 
sorting  for  printing,  and  also  pre- 
vents any  of  the  negatives  from 
sli])ping  down  behind  the  table 
and  becoming  lost  or  damaged. 

We  call  your  attention  to  the 
fact  that  all  printing  frames  are 
stored  in  the  lower  part  of  the 
bench,  either  in  the  open  shelves 
at  each  end  or  in  the  enclosed 


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Fig.  2.    Mounting  Room  Table 


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Fig.  3.    Enlarging  Room  Table 


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cujilioards  —  this  method  is  far 
better  than  sorting  the  frames  on 
shelves  above  the  table,  as  when 
stacked  above  the  table,  they 
sometimes  come  tumbling  down 
with  disastrous  results  to  im- 
portant negatives.  The  table  is 
provided  with  three  snugly  fit- 
ting drawers,  equipjied  with  pull 
handles,  for  the  storage  of  sensi- 
tive paper.  In  the  cupboards  be- 
neath ample  space  is  provided 
for  the  storage  of  vignettes,  tis- 
sues and  other  printing  necessi- 
ties. 

The  table  in  the  mounting 
room  is  of  solid  construction  and 
is  provided  Avith  a  broad,  per- 
fectly smooth  top.  which  may  be 
covered  with  white  rubber  or  oil- 
cloth to  insure  its  surface  being 
always  clean,  and  mounts  and 
prints  fi'om  damage  by  soiling. 

The  long  shelves  for  the  stor- 
age of  thin  mountboard  will  be 
found  a  great  convenience,  as 
the  thin  stock  will  remain  in 
perfect  condition,  and  no  time 
need  be  lost  sorting  the  sheets 
to  locate  different  colors  or 
weights.  The  other  open  shelves 
may  be  used  for  storing  dry 
mounting  tissue  or  paste,  and 
other  incidentials  for  mounting, 
while  the  shelving  protected  by 
the  sliding  doors  forms  an  ideal 
storage  i)lace  for  stock  mounts. 

The  table  in  the  enlarging 
room  presents  some  unusual  fea- 
tures, which,  though  simple, 
greatly  facilitate  the  work  when 
enlarging  in  large  sizes. 


By  referring  to  illustration  No. 
3  it  will  be  noticed  that  the  top 
of  this  table  is  constructed  in  the 
same  manner  as  the  table  in  the 
printing  room,  and  for  the  same 
reasons.  This  table  is  fitted 
with  six  drawers  for  the  storage 
of  paper  and  other  incidentals, 
four  of  the  drawers  are  of  the 
ordinary  type,  but  the  two  ui)per 
right  hand  ones  are  designed  for 
the  storage  of  bromide  paper  in 
large  sizes,  and  are  of  special 
construction. 

Illustration  No.  4  affords  a 
profile  view  of  one  of  these 
drawers  when  ])ulled  out.  It  will 
be  seen  that  the  drawer  is  jiro- 
vided  Avith  a  heavv  l^oard  cover, 
which  slides  up  and  down  on 
wooden  puis,  and  serves  as  a 
weight  to  keep  the  paper  flat 
during  storage.  This  cover  is 
provided  Avith  a  brass  flush  ring, 
so  that  it  may  be  easily  lifted  up 
to  a  vertical  position  when  it  is 
necessary  to  remove  paper  for 
use. 

The  fi-ont  of  the  drawer  pulls 
down,  and  is  supported  by  a  brass 
desk  slide,  making  the  large  sizes 
of  paper  stored  on  the  bottom  of 
the  drawer,  easy  of  access,  and 
permitting  the  removal  of  any 
size  sheet  without  disturbing 
the  remainder.  The  paj^er  may 
be  stored  in  this  manner  in  its 
original  enclosures,  the  size,  sur- 
face and  grade  may  be  written  in 
the  edge  extending,  thus  making 
it  easy  to  locate  and  remove  any 
size  or  grade  instantly. 


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The  plans  reproduced  here- 
with are  reduced  from  the  origi- 
nal scale  of  three  inches  to  the 
foot,  but  they  of  course  can  be 
constructed  in  dimensions  to  ac- 
commodate any  space. 


We  will  be  very  pleased  to  re- 
ceive description  of  anj^  labor 
saving  devices  you  have  discov- 
ered and  to  rej)roduce  them  when 
possible,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
profession. 


Fig.  i.    Profile  of  Paper  Storage  Drawer 


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ONVENTION  RECOL- 
LECTIONS 

B  Y   T  H  E   O  F  F  I  C  E     BOY 


Say,  that  nt-w  suit  of  clothes 
I  got  to  wt-ar  to  the  Convention 
ain't  no  good  no  more.  I  et  so 
mutch  that  the  i)ants  is  too  small 
round  an'  too  short  up  and  down 
—  they  wasn't  any  vest  with  the 
suit  so  I  ain't  out  so  mutch  as  I 
might  be. 

Me  an'  the  Boss,  an'  Jimmie 
the  printer — an'  the  bosses  wife, 
we  all  gets  to  Rochester  early 
Monday  moniing.  Soon's  we 
get  off  the  train  a  man  with  a 
big  button  sayin'  on  it  "  Ask  me 
I  live  here"  steps  up  an'  says, 
"Where  do  you  want  to  go?" 
"Senecky  Hotel"  says  the  Boss — 
"Right  this  way"  says  the  man, 
an'  in  a  few  minutes  we  was 
there . 

Says,  that's  some  hotel;  the 
Boss  got  me  an'  Jimmie  a  room 
together  —  an'  Jimmie  puts  up 
a  job  on  ine  with  that  shower 
bath  thing.  He  says  you  want  to 
get  all  slicked  up  before  you  go 
to  the  Convention  Hall,  so  you 
jus'  step  in  there  an'  take  a 
shower  bath  —  that  was  a  new 
one  on  me,  an'  I  says  where, 
an'  he  shows  me  a  funny  lookin' 
thing  with  a  rubber  curtain  to 
draw  around  jou,  he  shows  me 
two  little  wheels  to  turn  the  wa- 
ter on  and  off,  so  I  gets  in,  an' 
pulls  the  curtain  aroun'  me,  an' 
turns  one  of  them  little  wheels — 
Oh!    Wow!     'bout  a  million  gal- 


lons of  ice  water  comes  down  on 
me,  so  I  grabs  quick  an'  turns 
the  little  wheel  the  other  way, 
an'  then  turns  the  other  wheel 
an'  mos'  got  scalded  to  death — ■ 
nix  for  mine,  I  took  the  rest  of 
my  bath  in  the  stand  up  wash 
stand,  as  I  know  'bout  them. 

Soon  as  we  got  some  break- 
fast we  starts  for  Convention 
Hall,  jus'  a  couple  of  blocks 
away  —  thought  we'd  never  get 
there  at  that,  as  the  Boss  kep' 
ineetin'  fellows,  an'  shakin' 
hands  an'  sayin'  "Hello  old 
man"  an'  introducin'  his  wife, 
an'  bein'  introduced  to  other  fel- 
lows wives,  an'  askin'  is  Tom  or 
Dick  here — guess  all  of  em  wuz 
here  as  he  seemed  to  know  every- 
body. 

An'  when  we  gets  in  Conven- 
tion Hall !  Oh  !  Ge !  most  wish 
I  hadn't  promised  to  tell  you 
about  it. 

All  the  first  floor,  an'  the 
building  is  a  whopper,  wuz 
filled  with  slick  little  booths, 
with  all  sorts  of  photographic 
things  in  'em.  They  wuz  a  lot 
of  pictures  downstairs,  but  Hul- 
ly  Gee,  you  ot  to  see  the  pic- 
tures lip  stairs,  miles  and  miles 
of  'em,  the  Boss  had  some  up 
stairs  —  good  ones  too  —  one 
whole  end  an'  way  long  one 
side  wuz  filled  with  pictures  on 
Aristo  (the  Boss  says  that's  the 
stuff),  an'  on  Angelo,  an'  Nepe- 
ra,  an'  on  a  new  one  called  Etch- 
ing Black  —  they  wuz  alwaj^s  a 
crowd   aroun'    the  pictures   on 


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this  etching  lilack,  say  its  great, 
soon's  "we  got  home  the  Boss 
ordered  two  big  rolls  an'  Jimmie 
sajs  it's  a  cinch  to  work  it. 

They  had  a  lot  of  things  doin' 
everj"  night,  an'  Thursday  night 

—  but  wait  till  I  get  to  that. 
On  Wednesday,  I  think  it  wuz, 

we  all  went  to  see  'em  make 
lenses  at  Bausch  &  Lomb's — I 
tried  to  make  a  lens  since  we 
got  home  out  of  a  couple  of  bot- 
tles— mos'  cut  my  fingers  off — 
'taint  so  easj-  as  it  looks.  Then 
we  goes  down  to  Kodak  Park  — 
hones'  to  goodness,  betcha  we 
walked  a  hundred  miles  down 
there  —  in  l)uildin's  an'  out  of 
'em,  up  stairs  and  down  stairs — 
an'  the  ehimley  for  the  smoke 
to  go  up  —  betcha  it's  higher 
than  the  meetin'    house  steeple 

—  a  man  saj's  it  wuz  three  hun- 
dred and  sixty-six  feet  high,  a 
foot  for  each  day  in  the  year  an^ 
a  extra  foot  for  a  leap  year. 
They  showed  you  how  they  made 
plates  an'  paper,  an'  the  paper 
boxes  to  put  'em  in,  an'  they 
got  a  ole  socker  of  a  engine 
room,  makes  our  town  'lectric 
light  plant  look  like  a  watch 
charm. 

They  had  a  band  ])layin'  out 
on  the  laAvn,  an'  things  to  eat, 
yep,  chicken  salad  an'  ice  cream 
and  cigars — dasent  smoke  tho', 
'cause  the  Boss  might  ketch  me 
— he  ketched  me  onct  up  in  the 
printin'  room  an'  he  tole  ma  and 
ma  tole  pa  —  an'  —  you  know. 

An'  Thursday  night  —  that's 


the  night  /  got  in  good  —  the 
Eastman  Company  invites  us  all 
to  go  down  to  a  place  called  On- 
tario Beach  Park  —  jes'  like 
Coney  Island,  only  the  water  is 
fresh,  an'  the  waiters  ain't. 
They  give  us  all  a  book  with 
street  car  tickets  in  it —  (sure, 
both  waj's),  and  a  ticket  for  din- 
ner an'  tickets  for  all  the  doin's 
in  the  Park  —  eatin'  that  picnic 
dimier  is  what  spoiled  me  for 
that  new  suit  I  tole  j"Ou  about. 
It  rained  good  and  plenty  but 
that  didn't  make  no  difference  to 
nobody,  everybody  avuz  havin' 
too  much  fun  to  notice  it — the 
boys  give  Frank  Ban-ows —  he's 
it  in  the  association,  a  new  vest, 
'cause  he  wore  his  ole  one  out 
revisin'  the  constitution,  so  a 
man  tole  me,  an'  they  put  a  new 
gold  watch  and  chain  in  it  so  he 
could  tell  when  his  tank-devel- 
oped negatives  wuz  done,  an' 
Joxie  Collings  made  a  speech, 
an'  Mr.  Barrows  he  made  one, 
an'  Mr.  Eastman  he  made  one, 
only  he  didn't  talk  half  long 
enough. 

The  Boss  won  a  cane  tossin' 
rings  an'  give  it  to  me  only  I  got 
so  sleepy  comin'  home  in  the  car 
that  I  lost  it — the  cane  I  mean. 

Nex'  afternoon  Sandy  Wilmot 
and  Tot  Townsend,  they  run  the 
Defender  and  Seneca  factories, 
invites  us  to  another  feed  —  it's 
a  good  thing  I  am  young  and 
helthy,  after  all  them  picnics 
and  things. 

Every  minute  the  whole  week 


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they  wuz  somethin'  doin'  an' 
everybody  avuz  sayin'  they  wuz 
havm'  the  time  of  their  lives, 
an'  how  glad  they  wuz  to  be 
alive.  I  guess  I  could  write  a 
whole  lot  more,  only  mj'  head  is 
kinda  confused  like  ytt  with  see- 
in'  an'  doin'  so  mutch. 

P.  S.  —  The  Boss  has  gone 
fishin' —  to  re-cooperate  I  think 
he  sed. 


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PPORTUNITIES 


I  am  a  lot  more  than  half 
tempted  to  open  up  a  studio 
again,  remarked  an  old  timer. 
Now-a-days  there  are  so  many 
more  ways  of  attracting  trade 
to  your  studio,  and  annexing 
extra  dollars  when  your  compet- 
itor happens  to  be  a  dead  one. 
In  my  tune,  all  we  could  do  in 
the  way  of  advertising  was  to 
fill  our  show  case  full  of  carte- 
de-visites,  and  perhaps  run  a 
"card"  in  the  weekly  paper, 
reading  "John  Smith,  Photog- 
rapher, Main  Street."  We  all 
used  about  the  same  thing  in 
mounts  and  sizes  and  all  turned 
out  about  the  same  style  of  work, 
so  there  was  mighty  little  chance 
to  display  any  originality  or  of- 
fer anything  in  the  way  of  nov- 
elties to  attract  people  to  our 
studio,  outside  of  the  stated  in- 
tervals and  occasions  that  war- 
rant^ d  their  having  their  i)ictures 
taken. 

To-day  the  photographer  has 


unlimited  variety  in  color,  style 
and  finish,  and  aside  from  his 
regular  line  of  work  can  put  out 
many  things  in  the  way  of  nov- 
elties to  induce  people  to  spend 
their  money  for  pictures,  that 
the  regular  run  of  work  would 
not  atti'act. 

Just  glance  at  Taprell,  Loomis 
&  Company's  new  catalogue  and 
see  the  multitude  of  dollar  pul- 
lers. Take  for  instance  those 
souvenir  watch  fobs,  made  of 
leather  with  strap  and  buckle, 
with  an  opening  for  a  small  pic- 
ture, they  only  cost  twelve  cents 
apiece;  maybe  you  think  I 
wouldn't  fill  my  show  case  with 
those ;  a  few  given  away  to  the 
right  young  people  with  their 
pictures  in  'em  would  make 
every  school  boy  and  girl  in  town 
feel  that  they  just  had  to  have 
one  and  my  cashier  would  be 
pretty  busy  handing  'em  out  for 
about  thirty-five  cents  each. 
Right  on  the  same  page  are  some 
midget  pocket  books  and  sou- 
venir match  safes  that  could  be 
sold  in  the  same  way.  I  tell 
you  the  man  that  can  get  a  fad 
started  among  the  young  folks 
in  his  town  is  in  for  a  quick  and 
satisfactory  harvest.  Customers 
at  thirty-five  cents  each  may 
sound  pretty  small,  but  it  not 
only  paj's  a  profit  but  it  is  good 
advertising,  it  gets  the  young 
people  acquainted  with  you  and 
your  studio.  Treat  the  young- 
sters well  and  they  wont  forget 
you  Avhen  they  become   grown- 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


"     I 


FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 
By  C.  F.  Bretzman  Indianapolis,  Ind. 


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FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 

By  C.  F.  Bretzman  Indianapolis,  Ind. 


VI 


li 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


ups.  No,  of  course.  I  wouldn't 
start  anj'thing  of  this  sort  dur- 
ing my  Christmas  rush  or  any 
other  extra  busy  season  —  but 
for  an  off  season  I'd  try  it  sure. 

The  T.  &  L.  people  have  a 
lot  of  other  novelties  for  the 
grown-ups  that  can  be  made  to 
work  in  M'ith  your  regular  orders 
in  great  shape.  When  mamma 
comes  in  to  have  the  kiddies' 
pictures  taken,  show  her  one  of 
the  De  Luxe  Photo  Holders  and 
Bill  Books,  with  openings  for 
three  pictures  and  suggest  that 
pajm  would  be  mighty  pleased  to 
have  one  with  the  kiddies'  pic- 
tures in  —  I  know  I  would. 

All  through  the  catalogue  are 
extra  dollar  suggestions,  and 
their  line  of  folders  and  styles  of 
mounts  make  me  just  itch  to  fix 
up  my  show  case  and  give  my 
competitor  a  jolt. 

If  a  man  will  make  good  clear 
work  I  don't  see  how  he  can  help 
succeeding  with  all  these  good 
things  to  help  him  out. 


D 


UST 


We  are  in  receipt  of  a 
communication  from  one  of  our 
readers  requesting  that  we  deal 
with  the  problem  of  dust  elimin- 
ation in  the  photographic  work 
room. 

We  know  of  no  absolute  pre- 
ventive, but  in  our  own  work 
rooms  we  experience  no  difficulty 
in  keeping  it  within  bounds. 


Window  screens  and  the  like 
are  of  comparatively  httle  use  as 
the  particles  of  dust  are  so  ex- 
ceedingly fine  as  to  readily  come 
through  the  finest  screen  mesh. 

The  only  practical  solution  is 
to  take  precaution  against  its 
accumulation  and  to  remove  all 
that  has  settled  at  least  once  a 
day  or  oftener.  The  scientifically 
constructed  air  filters  and  vacuum 
cleaners  are  out  of  the  question 
for  the  average  studio. 

The  next  best  thing  then  is  to 
so  construct  the  work  rooms  that 
the  dust  can  not  find  too  many 
hiding  jjlaces  in  which  to  accu- 
mulate and  later  spread  its  mil- 
lions of  i)articles  in  the  various 
unwelcome  places.  Hard  wood, 
closely  matched  flooring,  with 
rounded  corners  instead  of  sharp 
angles,  to  the  rooms  will  assist 
greatly  in  the  removal  of  the 
dust  that  has  settled  on  the 
floors.  Open  shelves  or  heavy 
curtains  or  draperies  are  great 
dust  catchers  and  should  be  done 
away  with  in  all  cases,  except 
when  al^solutely  necessary. 

There  is  also  a  right  and  a 
wrong  way  for  the  removal  of 
dust.  The  common  variety  of 
feather  duster  and  com  broom 
are  simply  diixt  disturbers,  not 
removers.  The  feather  duster 
stirs  up  the  dust,  without  remov- 
ing one  particle,  the  com  broom 
allows  the  heavier  particles  only 
to  be  collected,  while  the  finer 
ones,  the  real  trouble  makers, 
are  sent  merrily  dancing  through 


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the  air  to  pop  down  just  where 
you  do  not  want  them. 

The  only  way  to  remove  dust 
from  side  walls  and  shelves  is  to 
wipe  it  up  with  a  slightly  damp- 
ened cloth.  In  sweejjiiig  our 
rioors  we  employ  a  long  handled 
brush  broom,  with  long  and 
rather  fine  bristles.  The  top  of 
this  broom  contains  a  reservoir 
filled  with  common  kerosene  oil, 
which  filters  through  in  very 
small  quantities,  yet  ample  to 
prevent  the  dust  from  arising 
and  escaping  collection.  These 
brushes  are  manufactured  by  the 
Milwaukee  Dustless  Brush  Co., 
and  are  made  in  various  sizes 
from  Si  inches  up  to  86  inches. 
The  24-inch  brush  lists  at  $5.50, 
and  will  last  a  long  time  if  well 
treated. 


rpHE  PUBLIC   KNOWS 

^  The  photographer  who 
beheves  that  his  patrons  do  not 
know  or  are  not  interested  in  the 
quality  of  paper  he  uses  will  find 
food  for  thought  in  the  following 
extract  from  a  letter  recently 
received  by  Sweet,  Wallach  & 
Company,  Chicago: 

You  will  be  interested  to 
know  that  we  have  gone  back  to 
Aristo  Platino,  and  we  find  it  less 
work,  and  can  get  out  our  work 
just  as  fast  on  Platino  as  we 
could  on  developing  paper  and 
the  general  public  know  that 
Aristo  is  better.     All  one  needs 


to  do  is  to  hunt  up  some  old  Pla- 
tino prints  and  compare  them 
with  developed  prints,  and  that 
will  show  you  which  is  the  best. " 

Yours  very  truly, 
(.Signed)     C.  W.  Ahganbright, 
What  Cheer,  la. 

There  can  be  no  question  but 
what  the  public  is  familiar  with 
Aristo  quality  and  tone.  They 
may  not  know  the  name  Aristo, 
but  they  do  know  the  appear- 
ance of  an  Aristo  print  and  that 
the  prints  look  just  as  well  after 
ten  years  as  they  do  the  day 
they  are  delivered. 

The  best  paper  to  use  is  the 
paper  that  will  produce  all  the 
quality  in  your  negative  —  that 
will  give  your  customers  the 
quality  and  tone  most  pleasing — 
that  you  yourself  know  is  abso- 
lutely permanent,  and  that  the 
prints  will  stay  sold. 

That  paper  is  the  paper  with 
a  twenty  years'  reputation — 
ARISTO. 


The  Fall  rush  will  soon 
begin — Let  the 

Eastman 
Plate  Tank 

Save  Your  Time 


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STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


O 


UR  ILLUSTRATIONS 


The  illustrations  in  this 
issue  are  from  the  studio  of  Mr. 
C.  F.  Bretznian,  of  Indianapolis, 
Indiana. 

Mr.  Bretzman  believes  in  bread 
and  butter  pictures,  and  those  he 
so  kindly  sent  us  for  reproduc- 
tion are  from  his  regular  run  of 
work  and  printed  on  Aristo  Pla- 
tino.  The  Bretzman  studio  is 
splendidly  appointed  and  up-to- 
date  in  every  jjarticular,  and  this, 
coupled  with  the  extensive  use 
of  Aristo,  has  been  the  means  of 
building  up  a  steady  and  profit- 
able patronage. 


I 


NCREASING  ORDERS 


We  plan  to  have  every  cus- 
tomer that  enters  our  studio  leave 
as  man}'  dollars  as  possible  with 
us,  aTid  to  that  end  we  employ 
pleasant  and  tactful  receptionists 
and  do  everything  else  possible 
to  create  a  favorable  impression 
and  a  desire  for  our  work. 

There  are  a  number  of  ways  of 
legitimately  increasing  the  orders 
even  after  the  work  of  the  wiz- 
ard (or  wizardess)  in  the  recep- 
tion room  is  finished.  A  num- 
ber of  successful  photographers 
make  a  j^ractice  of  making  one  or 
more  large  negatives  after  the 
posing  for  the  regular  order  has 
been  completed.  In  some  in- 
stances, however,  the  cost  of  the 
large  plates  for  a  purely  specula- 
ti\  e  purpose  is  too  great,  and  a 


less  expensive  means  must  be 
provided  to  promote  the  sale  of 
the  speculative  order.  A  prop- 
erly made  enlargement  from  the 
best  negative  of  the  regular  sit- 
ting Mill,  in  the  majority  of  cases, 
find  a  ready  sale  with  the  regu- 
lar order,  but  to  sell,  it  must  in 
every  instance  at  least  equal  in 
quality  the  small  pictures. 

While  Bromide  paper  will 
faithfullj^  reproduce  many  of  the 
quahties  of  the  original  negative, 
it  will  not  in  all  instances  prove 
suitaljle  until  more  or  less  air- 
brush or  hand  crayon  work  has 
been  ajiplied.  But  there  is  a  pa- 
per splendidly  adapted  to  the 
purpose,  and  that  Avill  look  and 
really  possess  quality  all  through. 

Royal  Nepera,  either  India 
Tint  or  pure  white,  will  produce 
enlargements  up  to  even  sixteen 
by  twenty,  fiilly  equalling  and  in 
many  instances  surpassing  con- 
tact prints.  Rojal  Nepera  is  as 
easy  to  work  as  the  ordinary  bro- 
mide paper,  except  that  it  re- 
quires a  longer  exposure,  and  this 
added  length  of  exj^osure  is  an 
advantage,  as  it  affords  sufficient 
time  to  harmonize  any  inequali- 
ties in  the  negative,  strengthen- 
ing shadows,  bringing  out  detail 
and  other  things  dear  to  the  heart 
of  the  expert  printer. 

When  re-developed  and  treat- 
ed with  Nepera  Waxing  Solu- 
tion, enlargements  on  Royal 
Nepera  possess  a  qualitj'  and  rich- 
ness that  make  them  more  than 
easy  sellers.      If  you  have  never 


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21 


taken  up  or  considered  enlarging^ 
as  a  means  of  easily  increasing 
your  profits,  let  us  send  you  a 
copy  of  "Enlarging,  a  Booklet  of 
Suggestion  for  the  Professional." 
This  booklet  is  written  purely 
from  the  j)rofessional  standpoint 
and  takes  \\y>  and  describes  in  de- 
tail every  jiart  of  the  work,  cov- 
ering enlarging  by  both  artificial 
and  daylight,  and  by  means  of 
simple  home-constructed  appa- 
ratus as  well  as  by  the  more  elab- 
orate and  specially  made  instru- 
ments. The  booklet  also  con- 
biins  a  number  of  invaluable 
suggestions  for  special  effects  in 
after  treatment,  and,  of  course, 
includes  up-to-date  formula?  for 
every  chemical  process  in  enlarg- 
ing. If  you  hav&not  already  se- 
cured a  copy  of  the  booklet,  wiite 
for  it  to-day,  and,  between  us, 
plan  to  make  those  extra  dollars. 


A 


N  OPPORTUNITY 


Eastman's  Etching  Black 
Platinum  was  one  of  the  big  hits 
at  the  Convention.  As  one  vis- 
itor expressed  it,  "It  has  just 
that  difference  as  is  between  a 
marble  Inist  and  the  real  human. " 
Etching  Black  has  just  sufficient 
warmth  of  tone  to  produce  flesh 
values  that  stand  out,  and  all  the 
full,  delicate  gradation  that  is  a 
joy  to  the  operator  and  printer 
who  delights  in  the  correct  ren- 
dering of  the  texture  values  of 
draperies. 


And  Etching  Black  Platinum 
is  so  simple  to  handle.  To  secure 
perfect  results,  print  in  the  reg- 
ular way  and  develop  in  a  cold 
bath  —  quick,   easy   and  certain. 

Etching  Black  is  for  the  stu- 
dio that  leads,—  that  has  and 
holds  a  reputation  for  quality 
work. 

Leading  studios  all  over  the 
country  are  enthusiastically  re- 
ordering Etching  Black,  and 
show  case  disj)lays  are  appearing. 
How  about  your  show  case?  You 
will  never  have  a  better  ojipor- 
tunitj^  to  bid  for  and  secure  the 
high  class  trade  of  your  territory 
than  is  afforded  by  an  opportune 
display  on  Etching  Black. 

Two  grades,  smooth  and  rough 
— your  dealer  will  be  glad  to  sup- 
ply you.     Price  same  as  Angelo. 


A 


LAST   REMINDER 

The  1909  Kodak  Adver- 
tising Contest  closes  October  first. 
Two  thousand  dollars  in  prize 
money  will  be  distributed  amcjng 
the  winners  in  this  contest.  Sim- 
ple and  easily  made  pictures  are 
going  to  win  this  money,  and 
even  at  this  late  date  you  stand 
an  equal  chance  of  participating 
in  the  awards — but  you  must 
"get  busy"  at  once. 

if  you  have  entries  for  this  con- 
test under  way,  complete  them 
and  forward  to  us  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible—  we  will  promptly  acknowl- 
edge their  receipt  upon  arrival. 


>* 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  «»rf 


All  entries  should  be  ad- 
dressed to 

Eastman  Kodak  Co., 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Advertising  Department. 

In  sending  j^ictures  mark  the 
package  plainly,  "Kodak  Ad- 
vertising Contest,"  and  in  the 
lower  left-hand  comer  write  your 
own  name  and  address.  Then 
write  us  a  letter  as  follows : 

I  am  sending  you  to-day  by 
Express    ,                         .J 
Mail     ^"harges  prepaid 

prints.     Please  enter  in  your  Kodak 

Advertising  Competition,  Class 

Yours  truly. 

Name, 

Address, 

The  name  and  address  of  the 
sender  must  be  legibly  written 
on  a  paper  and  enclosed  in  a 
sealed  envelope  in  the  same  pack- 
age in  which  the  prints  are  for- 
warded. There  is  to  be  no  writ- 
ing on  prints  or  mounts. 


A 


DVERTISE 


Our  i)lan  for  providing  up- 
to-date  cuts  for  studio  advertis- 
ing at  cost,  has  been  a  big  suc- 
cess from  the  start.  In  almost 
every  instance,  those  who  pur- 
chased the  first  cut  issued  have 
ordered  each  succeeding  one,  and 
we  have  received  many  letters 
commending  the  plan. 

Fall  business  is  just  commenc- 
ing and  a  judicious  use  of  news- 
paper space  cannot  help  but  bring 
you  good  returns. 


Slick  up  the  studio,  re-dress 
the  show  case,  do  the  best  work 
you  possibly  can — and  advertise 
—  there  is  the  combination  for 
business  bringing  that  must  suc- 
ceed. To  make  a  studio  suc- 
ceed you  have  to  do  more  than 
play  a  waiting  game.  True 
enough,  a  certain  percentage  of 
patrons  will  convince  themselves 
that  they  need  photographs,  but 
peoi)le  in  this  frame  of  mind  are 
just  as  apt  to  stop  at  the  studio 
down  the  street  as  they  are  to 
come  to  yours. 

On  the  other  hand,  if  the 
people  are  convinced  by  your 
advertising  that  they  need 
pictures,  your  studio  is  upper- 
most in  their  mind  when  the 
time  comes,  and  they  will  pass 
the  displays  of  j^our  competitors 
without  a  thought,  except  per- 
haps to  make  sure  that  they  are 
headed  right  to  reach  you. 

Our  series  of  cuts  have  been 
planned  to  help  you  bring  your 
business  guns  to  bear  on  every 
member  of  the  family  from  baby 
to  grandpa.  We  will  try  our 
best  to  provide  cuts  particularly 
pertinent  to  each  season. 

Also  remember  that  if  you  have 
not  purchased  any  of  the  cuts, 
you  may  obtain  the  full  series 
that  has  been  issued,  provided, 
of  course,  that  no  other  photog- 
rapher in  your  citj"  has  already 
ordered  them. 

Send  in  jour  order  to-day  and 
plan  to  develop  your  fall  and 
holiday  business. 


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23 


THE  ONLY  CON- 
DITION 

We  make  but  one  condi- 
tion in  our  offer  of  cuts  for 
the  use  of  photographers. 

It  is  obvious  that  two 
photogi'aphers  in  the  same 
town  would  not  care  to  use 
the  same  cut,  and  we  are 
therefore  obliged  to  limit 
this  offer  to  one  photogra- 
pher in  a  town.  It  will  be 
a  case  of  first  come  first 
served.  The  first  order 
from  a  city  will  be  promptly 
filled.  Succeeding  orders  (if 
any)  will  necessarily  be 
turned  down  and  the  re- 
mittance, of  course,  will  be 
returned.  It  is  also  obvious 
that  we  cannot,  on  account 
of  the  cost  of  the  drawings, 
furnish  any  large  variety  of 
cuts  at  the  nominal  prices 
quoted,  and  therefore  can 
offer  no  substitute  cut.  The 
thing  to  do  is  to  get  your 
order  in^/irst,  as  it  would  not 
be  fair  to  give  the  man  Avho 
happens  to  get  in  his  order 
early  one  month,  a  permanent 
advantage ;  we  shall  book  no 
orders  in  advance.  They 
must  always  specify  the  num- 
ber of  cut  desired.  If  later 
on  it  develops  that  there  is 
a  great  enough  demand  for 
these  advertising  cuts  to  war- 
rant our  fiimishing  a  larger 
variety,  we  shall  be  glad  to 
do  so.        c.  K.  Co.,  Ltd. 


To  You  Who  Are 
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THE  NEW  ENGLAND 
CONVENTION 

Though  the  Convention  of  the 
Photographers  Association  of 
New  England,  held  in  Boston, 
August  3,  4  and  5,  was  not  a 
success  from  point  of  numbers 
in  attendance,  it  was  successful 
in  the  carrying  out  of  a  highly 
instructive  and  entertaining  pro- 
gram. 

The  following  officers  were 
elected  unanimously : 

President,  W.  F.  Oliver,  Bald- 
winsville,  Mass.;  first  vice-presi- 
dent, Fred  E.  Frizzell,  Dorches- 
ter, Mass. ;  second  vice-president, 
E.  L.  Byrd,  Cambridge,  Mass.; 
secretary,  George  H.  Hastings, 
Haverhill,  Mass. ;  treasurer,  Samuel 
M.  Holman,  Attleboro,  Mass.  State 
vice-presidents:  Maine,  L.C.Gerry, 
Sanford;  New  Hampshire,  C.  L. 
Powers,  Claremont;  Vermont,  A. 
A.  Bishop,  Newport;  Rhode  Island, 
W.  B.  Davidson,  Narragansett  Pier; 
Connecticut,  J.  P.  Haley,  Bridge- 
port; Maritime  Provinces,  J.  Y. 
Mersereau,  Chatham,  N.  B. 


AWARDS 

GRAND  PORTRAIT  CLASS. 

A.  A.  Bishop,  Newport,  Vt. 

PORTRAIT  CLASS. 

1.  A.  A.  Bishop,  Newport,  Vt. 

9.  Byrd  Studios,  Cambridge, 
Mass. 

3.  Frank  R.  Barrows,  Dorchester, 
Mass. 

GENRE  CLASS. 

1.  Thibault  Studio,  Fall  River, 
Mass. 

2.  A.  A.  Bishop,  Newport,  Vt. 

'i.  Katherine  B.  Stanley,  Spring- 
field, Mass. 

GROIP  CLASS. 

1.  Frank  R.  Barrows, Dorchester, 
Mass. 

9.  W.  B.  Davidson,  Narragansett 
Pier,  R.  I. 

I^NDSCAPE  CLASS. 

1.  George  E.  Tingley,  Mystic, 
Conn. 

2.  W.  H.   Manahan,  Jr. 

ANGEI.O  PRIZE. 

W.  B.  Davidson,  Narragansett 
Pier,  R.  L 

ARISTO  PRIZE. 

Divided  between  J.  H.  C.  Evan- 
off,  Salem,  Mass.,  and  Thibault 
Studio,  Fall  River,  Mass. 


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ulletin:  the  eastman  school  of 
Professional  photography  for  1909 


Northwestern  Photog.   Conv.,  St.    Paul,   Minn.,  Sept.   2,   3,   4. 
Auspices  Duffin  &  Co.,  Winnipeg,  Man.,  September  8,  9,  10. 


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S  KW   SK  RIHS 
Vol .  1    No.  s 


OCTOBER  1909 


01  n    S>  RIES 

No.  105 


NEGATIVE  QUALITY 
AND  RESULTS 

In  making  arfjuments  for  the 
jn-oduct  which  they  sell,  repre- 
sentatives of  certain  ])hot()<jrai)hic 
paper  concerns  fretjuently  state 
that  results  on  their  jiaper  de- 
pend ui)on  a  si)ecial  character  of 
negative  used  to  print  from. 
They  give  as  their  opinion  that 
the  qualitj'  of  negatives  should 
always  be  varied  to  meet  the 
l)articular  paper  used.  Followed 
to  its  logical  conclusion  this 
means  no  standard  in  negative 
making  and  that  negatives  are  to 
be  considered  good  or  bad  mere- 
ly in  their  relation  to  this  or  that 
l)rinting  paper.  A  good  nega- 
tive for  one  paper  must  be  con- 
demned and  discarded  when 
prints  are  wanted  on  some  other 
paper. 

In  landscape  work  this  varia- 
tion in  printing  quality  of  nega- 
tive is  difficult  to  avoid,  as  no 
one  paper  emulsion  can  have  the 
latitude  to  produce  best  possible 
results  from  negatives  of  widely 
varying  density  and  quality  such 
as  are  frequently  made.  But  this 
complication  and  uncertainty  are 


undesirable  and  unnecessary  for 
the  portrait  photographer. 

To  support  their  argument 
these  representatives  mention 
the  Albumen  paper  which,  when 
in  vogue,  they  state  required  a 
negative  of  a  particular  quality, 
which  quality  became  obsolete 
Avhen  other  papers  were  adojited, 
and  thej^  argue  that  the  quality 
of  negatives  would  always  vary 
from  time  to  time  as  photogra- 
phers shift  fi-om  one  paper  to 
another.  Historically  this  state- 
ment is  incorrect.  In  the  Albu- 
men daj's  there  was  a  certain 
negative  quality  which  was  ac- 
cejjted  as  perfect  and  by  the  ma- 
jority of  experienced  and  skilled 
photographers  at  the  present  day 
the  writer  lielieves  that  the  chem- 
ical quality  of  negatives  of  the 
Albumen  days  should  still  be 
considered  as  ideal. 

When  prepared  papers  were 
first  introduced  the  emulsions 
were  of  a  quality  especially 
adapted  to  producing  the  best 
results  on  negatives  which  were 
then  generally  made.  The  first 
prepared  papers  that  came  out 
were  for  the  most  part  coated 
with  gelatine  emulsions.     After 


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these  came  the  American  Aristo 
Bhie  Label,  which  was  a  pure 
Collodion  paper  of  such  brilliant 
printing  quality  that  a  particu- 
larly soft  negative  was  required. 
It  was  at  this  time  that  a  special 
negative  to  suit  the  jjaper  was 
first  advocated  by  the  manufac- 
turers. The  manufacturers  of  this 
paper  were,  however,  quick  to 
perceive  the  disadvantages  of 
recommending  a  new  sort  of  neg- 
ative. It  was  largely  because  the 
Aristo  Blue  Label  was  not  adapt- 
ed to  the  negatives  generally 
made  that  it  did  not  take  the 
pkice  which,  on  account  of  its 
permanency  and  capacitj'  for 
beautiful  tones,  was  expected  for 
it.     To-day  it  is  not  known. 

Following  this  in  logical  order 
came  the  Aristo  Jr.  and  the 
Aristo  Platino.  These  papers 
proved  popular  because  they 
suited  the  Albumen"  nega- 
tives, and  where  you  find  a  i)ho- 
tographer  who  is  using  Aristo 
Platino  to-day  and  getting  the 
best  results,  you  will  also  find  he 
is  making  negatives  which  will 
produce  excellent  results  on  the 
old  Albumen  paper.  This  proves 
that  from  the  inception  of  nega- 
tive making  the  recognized  and 
accepted  characteristics  of  a  per- 
fect negative  have  not  materially 
changed.  Styles  may  change,  but 
real  worth  is  the  same  in  all 
ages.  Character  in  jiictures  is 
much  like  human  character.  The 
gentleman  of  fifty  years  ago 
would  still  qualify  as  the  gentle- 


man of  to-day.  Basic  principles 
cannot  be  changed  to  meet  mo- 
mentary conditions. 

Let  us  go  back  to  first  princi- 
ples. The  writer  contends  that 
photographic  printing  pajjcr 
should  be  made  for  the  negative 
rather  than  the  negative  made 
for  the  paper.  Some  manufac- 
turers in  the  Collodion  P.  O.  P., 
as  well  as  in  the  gelatine  1).  O. 
P.,  field  recognize  this  and 
work  for  it,  others  do  not.  Let 
any  of  us  who  have  not  already 
done  so,  start  in  anew  and  build 
on  the  foundation  of  technical 
excellence  in  negative  making. 
Let  us  have  that  roundness,  bril- 
liancy and  gradation  in  negatives 
which  will  yield  prints  pleasing 
to  the  eye  and  which  our  best 
friend,  the  public,  most  admires. 
Whatever  supei-structure  of  art 
and  style,  of  ideality,  romance 
and  poetry  which  we  may  wea\e 
into  and  about  our  pictures,  let 
us  not  forget  that  we  must  lead 
and  educate  our  customers  and 
we  must  always  make  some  con- 
cession to  their  understanding  of 
"things  as  they  are,"  as  well  as 
of  our  conception  of  "things  as 
they  ought  to  be."  To  harmon- 
ize these  elements  is  the  higher 
art  and  it  is  also  the  "bread  and 
butter"  end  of  the  business  which 
we  should  not  forget. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


Tj^IRST   CLASS 

■^       Wanted — a  first  class  recep- 
tionist. 

Quite  often  we  see  an  adver- 
tisement of  this  nature  in  the 
advertising  sections  of  the  pho- 
tographic journals.  An  attractive 
young  lady  to  wait  on  customers 
in  the  recejjtion  room  is  easy 
enough  to  find,  but  to  secure  the 
services  of  a  first  class  receptionist 
is  quite  another  matter.  True, 
the  first  class  receptionist  must 
lie  attractive  and  neat,  but  in 
addition  she  must  possess  quali- 
fications above  the  average.  It 
is  imjjerative  if  she  is  to  be  of 
full  value  to  the  studio  employ- 
ing her  that  she  possess  great 
tact  and  true  selling  ability. 
There  is  more  than  one  studio 
that  holds  many  of  its  ])atrons 
year  after  year  almost  solely  on 
account  of  the  personality  of  the 
lady  in  the  reception  room  and 
her  ability  to  make  and  retain 
friends.  It  is  easy  enough  to  sell 
what  a  customer  Avants,  a  lot  of 
samj)le  prints  with  the  prices  on 
could  in  most  cases  do  that,  but 
it  requires  alnlity  and  dijjlomacy 
of  a  high  order  to  sell  a  customer 
what  he  or  she  ought  to  have.  A 
first  class  receptionist  must  pos- 
sess the  ability  to  "  size  up  "  her 
customers,  and  to  know  intui- 
tively just  what  class  or  price  of 
work  to  present  and  just  when 
to  force  the  sale  of  higher  jiriced 
pictures  or  recede  gracefully  to 
something  less  expensive. 


One  thing  sometimes  over- 
looked even  by  otherwise  clever 
receptionists  is  simplicity  of 
attire;  gowns  too  fussy  or  too 
elaborate  create  a  feeling  of  dis- 
comfort with  patrons  of  small 
means,  and  those  with  a  plethora 
of  this  world's  goods  likewise  re- 
sent it.  The  clever  receptionist 
knows  and  remembers  names  and 
faces  —  addressing  a  person  by 
name  often  helps  a  lot  in  estab- 
lishing pleasant  relations  and  she 
likewise  knows  just  M'hen  and 
when  not  to  make  suggestions  re- 
garding costume,  coiffure  or  jjose. 

One  of  the  most  valuable  qual- 
ities of  the  first  class  recej)tionist 
is  loyaltj^  to  the  studio  that  em- 
jiloys  her:  she  must  not  only  feel 
that  her  studio  turns  out  the  best 
work  but  she  must  impart  this 
feeling  to  not  only  her  customers 
but  to  her  employer  and  business 
associates  as  well. 


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UR    ILLUSTRATIONS 


The  portrait  illustrations 
in  this  issue  are  from  the  well 
known  studio  of  Ph.  Rose,  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  Mr.  Rose 
has  been  in  his  present  location 
many  years  and  is  happy  in  one 
of  the  most  jjerfectly  appointed 
studios  in  the  country.  The  Rose 
Studio  enjoys  a  high  class  patron- 
age—the kind  that  is  quick  to 
appreciate  the  sterling  quality  of 
Aristo  the  stand-by  of  the  Rose 
establishment. 


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EGATIVE  AND   POSI- 
TIVE 

Men  in  business  achertise  what 
they  have  to  sell  in  either  a  neg- 
ative or  positive  manner.  Nega- 
tive advertising  does  not  necessa- 
rily mean  publicity  that  will  give 
the  business  a  bad  name,  but  an 
attempt  at  publicity  that  fails  be- 
cause it  neither  attracts  nor  con- 
vinces. The  majority  of  i)rofes- 
sional  j^hotographers  have  show 
cases  filled  with  examples  of 
their  work,  and  the  purj^ose  of 
these  show  cases  is  to  sufficiently 
attract  the  passers-by  so  they 
will  come  in  and  spend  money 
for  photographs.  The  average 
person  does  not  purchase  photo- 
graphs every  day  or  e\ery  month , 
and  unless  some  special  occasion 
demands  it,  having  his  picture 
taken  does  not  enter  his  mind. 
If  your  show  case  is  like  too 
many  of  the  show  cases  he  passes 
it  bj^  without  even  a  thought,  or 
if  having  a  moment  or  so  to  idle, 
he  casually  inspects  it  and  passes 
on,  your  name  and  your  work 
having  made  absolutely  no  im- 
pression on  his  mind  —  and  should 
occasion  arise  for  having  his  pic- 
ture taken,  he  asks  his  wife  or 
some  friend  whom  to  patronize, 
and  you  take  the  chance  with 
all  your  competitors  of  being  the 
lucky  one  that  gets  his  money. 
"Yes,  I  believe  there  is  a  pho- 
tographer in  this  block  —  seems 
to  me  I've  seen  his  show  case 
somewhere  along  hei'e — I  couldn't 


say  whether  he  does  good  work 
or  not."  That  is  what  we  mean 
by  negative  advertising.  If  your 
efforts  at  publicity  do  not  differ 
from  those  of  your  competitors 
you  are  benefiting  them  equally 
well.  Your  show  case  can  be 
made  to  do  positive  advertising, 
the  kind  that  will  bring  people 
inside  your  studio. 

You  every  day  pass  a  dead  wall 
with  a  sign  on  it — that  sign  has 
been  painted  there  a  year  or 
more,  you  have  seen  it,  read  it, 
know  it  is  there,  yet  if  anyone 
should  ask  you  off-hand  whose 
sign  it  was  or  just  what  it  said, 
ten  to  one  you  couldn't  tell  him. 
Yet  let  someone  over  night  re- 
place that  sign  with  a  new  one, 
you  would  notice  it  the  first  thing 
and  if  they  kept  changing  it  every 
little  while  you  would  look  to 
see  what  it  said  every  time  you 
passed.  Your  show  case  can  do 
equally  well  for  you.  Make  it  at- 
tract, not  only  by  the  good  work  it 
contains,  but  by  it  or  its  contents 
being  different  from  those  of 
your  comi)etitors,  and  keep  the 
interest  up,  by  giving  the  ])assing 
jjublic  something  new  every  lit- 
tle while  —  once  a  week  at  least 
—  every  day  if  i)Ossible.  Of  course 
this  means  extra  work  and  extra 
cost,  but  if  it  brings  in  more  dol- 
lars— and  it  surely  will  —  it  is 
worth  more  than  the  labor  and 
money  it  costs. 

Positive  advertising  is  the  kind 
that  helps  i/oii,  that  brings  the 
public  to  your  studio,  instead  of 


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letting  them  wander  hap-hazard 
into  the  first  studio  they  come 
to.  When  they  do  stop  to  ex- 
amine your  show  case,  give  them 
aside  from  your  good  work  some 
httle  argument  to  convince  them 
that  you  are  "it"  in  the  picture 
making  business,  and  Avhenever 
possible  convince  them  of  their 
need  for  photographs  made  by 
you. 

The  Canadian  Card  Comjjany 
have  i)re))ared  a  set  of  twelve  at- 
tractive and  convincing  show  case 
cards  that  will  help  out  wonder- 
fullj"  in  a  positive  advertising 
camjiaign.  These  cards  are  four 
by  six  inches  in  size  and  printed 
on  good  heavy  stock  in  two  col- 
ors. Included  in  the  set  is  also 
a  large  card  eight  and  one-half 
by  fourteen  inches  with  a  most 
convincing  argument  for  you  and 
your  products.  The  price  of  the 
comjilete  set  is  only  25  cents. 
In  connection  with  the  set  the 
C.  C.  Co.  have  to  say: 

"These  show  cards  should  In- 
changed  at  least  twice  or  three 
times  a  week,  so  as  to  keep  the 
interest  of  the  public  on  phoio- 
araphs;  in  fact,  we  believe  it 
would  be  policy  to  change  your 
pictures,  in  other  words,  to  make 
up  enough  sample  prints  to 
change  your  show  case  three 
times;  that  will  enable  you  to 
keep  changing  the  styles  around : 
in  other  words,  Avith  enough  sam- 
ple prints  to  change  your  win- 
dows comjilete  three  times,  will 
enable   you   to    make    20   or   25 


effective  dressings  bj'  changing 
the  styles  around,  and  with  the 
aid  of  these  show  cards,  the  at- 


HE  Kiddies 

rt^  are  my  specialty 
This  is  their  studio 


T 


OUR  SPECIALTIES 


Correct  Posing 
Popular  Tones 
Scientific  Lighting 
The  Latest  Styles 


Two  of  the  Show  Case  Cards 

tention  of  the  public  can  be  riv- 
eted effectively  on  your  photographs 
in  their  different  styles  and 
finishes.  The  large  card  should 
be  tacked  up  at  intervals  in  your 
show  window  or  show  case  so 
that  the  public  may  read  it  as 
they  pass  by.  You  will  notice 
that  it  draws  particular  attention 
to  the  desirability  of  photographs 
as  gifts,  which  will  insure  a  large 
jiortion  of  the  buying  public  leav- 
ing  their  money  with  yon  instead 
of  with  stores  engaged  in  other 
lines  of  business." 


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FROM  A  COLLODIO-CARBON  PRINT 
By  The  Rose  Studio  Providence,  R.  I. 


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THE  WOMEN'S  SEC- 
TION P.  A.  of  A. 

To  the  li'ometi  of  the  profession  : 

The  movement  towards  uniting 
the  women  photographers  of  the 
eountry,  whieh  liegan  in  a  modest 
way  at  the  Detroit  Convention 
in  190s,  has  resulted  this  year, 
at  the  National  Assemblj^  at 
Rochester,  in  the  formation  of  a 
Section  for  the  purpose  of  ad- 
vancing their  art.  "  In  union 
there  is  strength,"  and  a  good 
fellowship  among  co-workers  is 
sure  to  prove  of  benefit  to  all. 

The  following  officers  were 
elected : 

President,  Mary  Camell,  1.314. 
Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia;  Vice- 
President,  Belle  Johnson,  Mon- 
roe City,  Mo. ;  Secy  and  Treas., 
M.  Estelle  Jenkins,  Chicago; 
Chairman  Eastern  Section,  Ger- 
trude Kasebier,  315  5th  Ave., 
New  York;  Chairman  Middle 
Section,  Katherine  Jamison, 
Centre  and  Highland  Ave.,  Wal- 
lace Blk.,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Chair- 
man Western  Section,  lola White, 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Those  who  did  not  participate 
in  the  j)roceedings  at  the  National 
Convention  are  herewith  heartily 
invited  to  join  the  federation, 
which  has  already  representatives 
in  nearly  every  state  in  the  union. 
It  is  hoped  that  each  woman 
photograi)her  in  America  will 
promptly  conununicate  with  the 
chairman  of  her  Section  or  with 
the   Secretary,    M.   Estelle  Jen- 


kins, 115  N.  Park  Ave.,  Austin 
Station,  Chicago,  111.,  that  she 
may  be  informed  of  the  full  pur- 
pose and  plans  of  the  Association. 
Cordially  yours, 
Mary  Carnell,  President. 


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NLY    NINE 


We  once  saw  a  well  drilled 
witness  called  in  court.  It  was  a 
criminal  case  of  some  importance 
and  after  the  attorney  for  the 
prosecution  had  finished  with  the 
witness,  he  was,  as  usual,  turned 
over  to  the  ojiposing  attorney  for 
cross-examination. 

After  the  usual  questions  as  to 
name,  age,  occupation,  and  the 
like,  the  attorney  for  the  defense 
asked,  in  sarcastic  tones,  "Isn't 
it  true  that  you  have  been  con- 
victed ten  times  ? " 

"No,  sir,"  replied  the  witness 
in  a  voice  that  fairly  trembled 
with  indignation,  "only  nine 
times." 

The  application  of  which  story 
is  that  somebody  slipped  a  cog. 
Pictures  on  our  papers  didn't  take 
quite  as  many  prizes  at  the  Mis- 
souri Convention  as  were  re])ort- 
ed  to  and  then  advertised  by  us. 
But  the  results  were  not  so  far 
different  from  our  claims  as  to 
justify  any  indignant  protest. 
Even  after  making  the  claimed 
allowance,  the  results  were  over- 
whelmingly Eastman. 

Once  again  Missouri  was 
shown. 


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By  The  Rose  Studio  Providence,  R.  I. 


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T 


AKE  TIME  TO   SAVE 
TIME 

Every  once  in  a  while  you  come 
across  a  ])hotographer  v.ho  com- 
plains of  unsatisfactory  results 
with  develojiing  out  papers,  and 
just  so  often  you  find  that  it  is 
the  photographer  and  not  the 
paper  that  is  at  fault. 

Most  of  the  trouble  arises  from 
the  fact  that  as  developing  out 
papers  are  so  much  quicker  than 
printing  out  paj)ers,  the  user 
seems  to  feel  that  he  must  hurry, 
keeping  pace  with  the  short  du- 
ration of  exposure,  and  go  slaj) 
dash,  any  old  way  or  else  his 
print  will  get  away  fi-om  him.  In 
fact  too  much  stress  has  been  laid 
upon  the  time  saving  qualities  of 
develo])ing  out  papers,  and  the 
new  manipulator  seems  to  be- 
grudge every  moment  that  he 
should  and  must  devote  to  the 
proper  ]ire])aration  of  his  devel- 
oper and  fixing  bath. 

With  Nepera  the  producing  of 
first  class  prints  is  a  simple  matter, 
only  in  saving  time  you  must  not 
waste  it.  For  instance;  your  de- 
veloper must  be  properly  ])re- 
pared,  from  the  best  and  purest 
chemicals  you  can  purchase,  and 
carefully  weighed  and  measured 
in  accordance  with  the  official 
formula.  True  enough,  most  any 
developer  will  produce  some  sort 
of  an  image  when  applied  to  a 
sheet  of  the  paper  exposed  under 
a  negative,  but  if  the  developer 
has  been  carelessly  prepared,  or 


not  in  accordance  with  the  right 
formula,  you  cannot  expect  the 
l)est  results  and  have  been  wasting 
some  of  the  time  you  expected 
the  paper  to  save. 

Proper  temperature  of  the 
developing  solution  plays  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  color  and  gra- 
dation of  the  print,  and  if  you 
"just  guess  at"  the  temperature 
instead  of  using  the  thermometer 
and  the  very  few  moments  of 
time  necessary  to  obtain  the 
jiroper  degree,  you  are  wasting 
still  more  of  the  time  that  should 
be  saved. 

To  projierly  handle  developing 
liaper,  follow  the  printed  in- 
structions exactly  and  thoroughly . 
Take  time  and  pains  to  see  that 
everything  is  just  right — the  time 
thus  spent  is  not  wasted,  and  this 
is  the  only  way  you  can  make 
develoj)ing  out  paper  save  you 
the  amount  of  time  it  should 
save  over  any  of  the  printing 
out  processes. 


PIE  AND  CAKE 
Dear  Mr.  Editor: 

On  behalf  of  the  frater- 
nity I  want  to  say  that  we  can 
see  through  a  wire  fence. 

We  can  see  the  point  to  your 
"bread  and  butter"  phrase  used 
in  the  Aristo  advertising  and  the 
attempts  made  to  create  preju- 
dice against  you  on  account  of  it 
dont  go.  Of  course,  we  also 
like  and  deserve  lobster  Newburg 


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and  ice  cream  and  cake,  and  lots 
of  us  are  getting  these  minor 
frills,  to  say  nothing  of  automo- 
biles. The  man  who  implies,  by 
giving  it  an  unfair  twist,  that  we 
can't  see  through  a  figure  of 
speech,  insults  our  intelligence. 
We  require  no  diagram  or  kinder- 
garten instruction  to  see  that 
"bread  and  butter"  work  means 
business  work,  —  work  that  sells, 
—  work  that  assures  an  income. 

Personally,  I  don't  believe 
that  the  real  people  mean  to  put 
out  such  puerile  attempts  at  pre- 
judice creating  as  have  been  made 
in  their  name,  but  they  have 
some  second  lieutenants  and  cor- 
porals who  need  discii)lining.  No 
early  aid  to  the  addled  is  neces- 
sary in  the  case  of  the  profes- 
sional photographers.  They,  for- 
tunately, have  the  mental  capac- 
itj'  to  understand  an  ordinary 
figure  of  speech  and  are  also  keen 
enough  to  see  why  the  attempts 
at  perverting  the  same  are  made. 

That's  all. 

Yours  truly, 

Stereoscope. 


o 


N  GETTING  WISE 


The  time  to  order 
that  Eastman  Plate 
Tank  is 

Now 


BY    THE    OFFICE    B  O  Y 

I'm  goiii'  to  the  E.  K.  School 
again  this  year— me.  an'  the  Boss, 
and  Jimmie  the  printer. 

Las'  year  was  the  first  time  I 
t-ver  slep  in  a  sleepin'  car,  an'  in 
the  mornin'  when  I  woke  up  I 
forgot  where  I  was  an'  jumped  up 
an'  whacked  my  dome  so  hard  I 
mos'  broke  my  main  spring. 

The  Boss  is  goin'  to  have  a  lot 
of  things  done  while  we're  away. 
Studio  all  repainted  and  i)apered, 
new  curtains  in  the  opera  tin'  room 
—  says  he  wont  have  no  time  to 
do  it  when  he  gets  back. 

He  was  out  in  the  operatin' 
room  the  other  daj'  showin'  the 
paint  man  what  he  wanted  done 
when  a  chap  comes  in  an'  asts 
him  does  he  want  to  buy  any 
chemicals.  Maybe,  says  the 
Boss,  an'  the  man  says  the  pho- 
tographers is  all  payin'  too  much 
for  their  chemicals,  an'  he  can 
sell  'em  to  'em  for  about  half 
what  what  they  are  payin'  the 
stock  house  man. 

Are  your  chemicals  strictly 
high-grade?  asts  the  Boss.  Well 
now,  says  the  man,  chemicals  is 
jus'  chemicals,  and  all  this  talk 
about  high-grade  and  low  grade 
chemicals  is  mos'ly  in  your 
eye. 

Is  that  so?  says  the  Boss,  may- 
1)e  you  think  us  photographers 
aint  gettin'  waked  up  on  this 
chemical  question,  an'  maylje  we 
aint  some  posted  as  whether  the 


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low  priced  chemicals  is  the  cheap- 
est or  not. 

Sposin'  I  spend  half  a  day  out 
here  under  the  lio;ht  niakin'  some 
corkin'  negatives,  an'  vhen  I  am 
ready  to  put  'em  in  the  tank  to 
develop  I  don't  know  the  strength 
of  my  developer,  I'm  up  against 
it  good  an'  hard,  aint  I,  an' 
sposin'  I  save  half  a  cent  or  even 
five  cents  an  ounce  on  my  sodas, 
an'  don't  get  the  best  results  on 
the  four  or  five  dollars  worth  of 
plates,  to  say  nothin'  of  my  time, 
I'm  ahead,  7wt. 

No,  sir,  we've  been  gettin' 
posted,  an'  we  know  that  the 
common  garden  variety  of  car- 
bonate mos'  usuallj'  has  a  lot  of 
things  in  it  besides  carlionate, 
such  as  silicic  acid,  sulphiu'ic  acid, 
arsenic,  lime,  phosphoric  acid, 
hypo,  bi-carbonate,  and  some 
everj'  day  dirt  thrown  in  for  good 
measure.  Sulphite  aint  so  liad, 
the  impurity  is  mos'ly  sulphate, 
don'  do  any  harm,  but  you  can't 
tell  how  much  is  sulphate  an' 
how  much  is  sulphite,  an'  when 
you  go  to  weigh  out  your  stuff 
accordin'  to  fornuila,  you're  only 
guessin',  says  the  Boss,  I  pay 
good  money  for  my  chemicals 
when  they  have  that  little  C.  K. 
C.  Tested  Chemical  label  on  'em 
— then  I  know  where  I'm  at. 

The  Boss  aint  no  tight  wad  an' 
he  was  born  near  Joplin. 


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NCREASING    THE 
BUSINESS    PROFIT 


The  man  Avho  conducts  a 
photographic  studio  and  the  man 
engaged  in  running  a  drj'  goods 
store  are  in  business  for  the 
same  reason — to  make  money.  It 
is  true  that  the  dry  goods  man 
handles  mostly  what  we  term 
necessities,"  that  the  people  in 
his  town  must  purchase,  while 
the  jihotographer  deals  m  what 
may  be  called  luxuries.  In  or- 
dinary good  times  both  the  nec- 
essities and  the  luxuries  find  a 
market  with  all  classes  of  people, 
and  when  the  profit  is  small, 
owing  to  the  low  price  or  grade 
of  the  goods  sold,  it  then  be- 
comes necessary,  in  order  to  in- 
crease profits,  to  educate  your 
trade  into  a  desire  for  something 
better — that  sells  for  a  higher 
price  and  pays  a  correspondingly 
greater  profit.  When  once  this 
desire  is  created  the  higher 
priced  goods  are  sold  as  easily  or 
easier  than  the  cheaper  ones. 
The  Quoin  Club  Key  tells  how 
a  dry  goods  store  solved  this 
pro])lem  for  one  of  its  depart- 
ments : 

There  was  a  dry  goods  store 
in  a  small  Michigan  town.  Its 
corset  department  did  a  large 
business  in  fifty-cent  goods.  A 
dollar  and  a  half  was  the  utmost 
limit.  When  a  woman  in  that 
little  town  paid  one-fifty  for  a 
pair  of  corsets  she  thought  she 
had  a  costly    luxury.      But    one 


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day  a  traveling  salesman  came 
along,  as  the  story  is  told,  and 
said  there  was  no  reason  in  the 
world  why  this  department 
should  not  be  systematically 
brought  up  the  line  in  quality 
and  price  and  annual  turnover. 
He  began  by  giving  a  properly- 
fitted  two-dollar  and  a  half  cor- 
set to  the  woman  clerk  at  the 
corset  counter.  She  was  a 
stoutish  woman.  Her  figure  im- 
proved greatly.  Her  enthusiasm 
lead  her  to  speak  of  that  two- 
fifty  garaient  to  f-ustomers  of  the 
better  class.  Even  a  town  that 
size  has  its  social  leaders.  Soon 
the  "smart  set"  was  wearing 
two-fifty  corsets.  In  a  few 
months  the  demand  for  one-fifty 
and  two  dollar  goods  was  so 
steady  that  the  old  fifty-cent 
grade  was  thrown  out  of  the 
store  altogether.  Then  three- 
fifty  corsets  were  put  in.  In  a 
year,  out  went  the  dollar  line. 
To-day  that  store  has  a  good 
trade  in  five-dollar  corsets,  and  is 
working  toward  custom-made 
goods  and  a  corset  expert." 

The  illustration  may  be  a 
homely  one,  but  it's  full  of 
meaning.  You  can  educate  your 
trade,  can  'bring  your  customer 
up  to  the  line,"  if  you  drill  your 
employees  to  an  aj^preciation  of 
what  it  means  in  added  profits. 
Now  it  may  seem  a  far  cry  frcjm 
corsets  to  portraits,  but  the  un- 
derlying business  principle  ap- 
|)lies  equally  well  in  both   cases. 

With  a  good  clever  reception- 


ist such  as  most  of  us  are  fort- 
unate enough  to  possess,  and 
some  good  hard  thinking  in  de- 
vising a  style  or  two  that  are  a 
bit  different,  and  backing  up  the 
new  styles  with  the  best  pos- 
sible work  we  can  turn  out,  we 
have  more  than  a  fighting  chance 
in  educating  our  trade  to  the 
better  goods  and  higher  prices. 


THE      EASTMAN 
STUDIO 

We  have  had  the  pleasure  in 
previous  issues  of  describing  sev- 
eral of  the  time  and  labor  sav- 
ing conveniences  in  use  in  our 
model  studio.  In  response  to  a 
number  of  requests  we  publish 
in  this  numl)er  the  floor  i)lan  of 
the  studio  showing  its  general 
arrangement  and  where  the  de- 
vices described  in  our  previous 
issues  are  installed.  The  plan 
shown  on  pages  l6  and  17  is  large- 
ly self  explanatory,  and  only  in 
a  few  histances  will  it  be  necess- 
ary to  ask  attention  to  special 
features. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  there 
is  a  clear  passageway  leading 
from  the  reception  room  and 
office  to  any  of  the  work  rooms, 
except  to  the  dark  room  in  the 
rear  of  the  operating  room,  and 
the  dark  room  may  be  reached 
without  disturbing  the  operater 
or  sitter  by  means  of  a  door 
opening  behind  the  backgrounds. 


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FLOOR  PLAN  OF  THE 


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1! 


STUDIO   LIGHT   aiid 


It  will  be  noticed  that  all  doors 
opening  off  the  passageway  be- 
tween the  operating  and  printing 
rooms  are  sliding,  instead  of 
opening  in  the  usual  manner, 
this  not  only  saves  space,  but 
likewise  prevents  accidents  in 
case  of  the  door  suddenly  open- 
ing against  an  employee  carry- 
ing a  rack  of  negatives. 

The  skylight  is  of  the  single 
slant  style  and  faces  the  north. 
From  the  opposite  wall  is  sus- 
pended an  Aristo  Lamp  for  use  on 
all  occasions  when  daylight  is  not 
available.  The  printing  room  is 
divided  into  two  parts,  one  for 
daylight  printing,  and  one  for 
artificial  light,  either  when  us- 
ing the  Aristo  Printing  Cabinet 
or  when  printing  develojnng  out 
papers.  The  dividing  wall  be- 
tween the  printing  and  toning 
rooms  contains  a  cupl)oard  with 
doors  opening  into  both  rooms ; 
this  cupl)oard  saves  many  a  step 
as  the  exposed  sheets  are  placed 
in  this  cupboard  by  the  printers 
and  removed  by  the  workmen  in 
the  other  room  for  toning.  The 
enlarging  room  has  its  own  sink 
for  the  handling  of  enlargements, 
so  that  class  of  work  may  l^e  kept 
entirelj^  separate  from  the  ordin- 
ary printing. 

In  every  respect  this  arrange- 
ment of  studio  and  work  rooms 
has  worked  perfectly  in  three 
years  of  constant  use  and  we 
have  not  found  it  necessarj'  to 
make  ajiy  but  the  most  minor  al- 
terations in  that  time. 


Any  futher  information  re- 
garding this  studio  or  its  ap- 
pointments will  be  gladly  fur- 
nished to  the  profession  upon 
request. 


A 


LITTLE     BIG 
FEATURE 

One  extremely  bad  feature  of 
the  ordinary  double  plate  holder 
is  the  inability  of  the  light  trap 
in  the  slide  openings  to  prevent 
the  entrance  of  light  when  the 
slide  is  inserted  corner  wise,  and 
in  many  instances  the  trap  fails 
to  work  at  all,  allowing  a  stream 
of  fogging  white  light  to  strike 
across  the  plate  during  an  ex- 
posure. 

The  Sterling,  Graphic,  Gra- 
flex,  Century  \'iew  and  Univer- 
sal plate  holders  all  overcome 
this  annoying  imperfection  per- 
fectly by  means  of  a  spring  fin- 
ger cut-off.  This  cut-off  ab- 
solutely prevents  the  entrance  of 
light  and  the  slide  may  be 
inserted  corner  wise,  and  the 
holder  left  unjirotected  even  dur- 
ing a  jjrolonged  outdoor  expos- 
ure without  danger. 

The  Sterling,  Ciraphic,  and 
Graflex  jilate  holders  are  manu- 
factured by  the  Folmer  & 
Schwing  Division,  the  Century 
by  the  Century  Camera  Division, 
and  the  Universal  by  the  Roch- 
ester Optical  Division,  and  may 
be  had  from  your  stock-house. 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


19 


FROM  A  COLLODIO-CARBON  TRINT 
By  The  Rose  Studio  Providence,  R.  I 


20 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


^11  7HEN  YOU  NEED  IT 

*  *  It  is  human  nature  that 
the  most  of  us  do  not  appreciate 
the  vahie  of  a  life  preserver  till 
we  come  slap  bang  up  against  the 
emergency  that  makes  us  wish 
we  had  one  —  then  we  can  clear- 
ly see  all  its  advantages,  and 
would  be  willing  to  put  up  with 
even  an  indifferent  one. 

It  is  a  good  deal  the  same  way 
in  our  every  day  studio  work.  In 
slack  seasons  we  put  up  with  a 
good  many  inconveniences  and 
make-shift  devices,  because  we 
have  plenty  of  time  anjhow,  but 
when  rush  time  comes,  then,  oh! 
how  frantically  we  wish  we  had 
that  life  preserver.  With  only  a 
sitting  or  two  a  day,  the  time 
spent  in  the  dark  room  develop- 
ing doesn't  really  amount  to 
much,  but  when  everybody 
wants  a  sitting  at  once,  and  you 
are  making  exposures  up  to  the 
last  minute,  and  mother  is  going 
to  have  fried  chicken  and  hot 
biscuits  for  supper  and  wants  j^ou 
home  on  time,  theii  the  develop- 
ment of  all  those  plates  means  a 
lot.  Got  to  be  done,  too,  before 
you  leave,  or  the  jiroof  printer 
will  be  in  trouble  in  the  morning. 

With  the  Eastman  Plate  Tank 
at  hand,  development  doesn't 
worry  you  a  bit,  twenty-four  cali- 
inets  at  a  time,  and  developed 
to  perfection  without  bother,  or 
damage  from  accident,  and  with- 
out any  loss  of  time  to  you. 
One  week's  use  in  any  rush  sea- 


son will  more  than  pay  for  the 
Tank  —  then  you  have  all  its 
splendid  advantages  free. 

Eastman  Plate  Tanks  are  in 
most  of  the  studios  doing  good 
work  to-day  —  if  one  or  more  is 
not  working  in  your  studio  have 
your  dealer  send  one  up  first  de- 
livery.  You'll  never  be  sorry. 


M 


ORE  PROFIT 


Raise  the  quality  of  jour 
work  and  you  can  increase  its 
price.  Increasing  the  quality 
often  adds  but  little  in  the  cost 
to  you  but  adds  a  lot  in  profit. 
Of  all  the  printing  mediums  at 
the  command  of  the  modern  pro- 
fessional, Augelo  platinum  leads 
in  the  ability  to  show  quality  to 
even  the  most  superficial  ob- 
server. Make  two  prints  from 
the  same  negative,  one  on  carbon 
and  the  other  on  Angelo  Sepia, 
and  show  them  to  any  person 
without  knowledge  of  photo- 
graphic processes,  and  in  prac- 
tically every  case  the  soft  velvety 
quality  of  the  Angelo  print  will 
M'in.  Sejiia  tones  are  the  vogue 
and  no  ])aper  outside  of  Angelo 
Se])ia  can  so  successfully  rejiro- 
duce  every  delicate  gradation  of 
the  negative  in  true  sepia  tones. 
In  Angelo  Sepia  you  have  the 
ideal  medium  for  increasing  both 
quality  and  price.  No  profes- 
sional pai)er  is  so  easy  to  manip- 
ulate as  Angelo,  quick  to  print, 
simple  in  after   treatment,   pro- 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


21 


FROM  A  COLLODIO-CARBON  PRINT 

By   The  Rose  Sliirtio  Providevrr,  ff.  I. 


22 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


ducing  jirint  after  print,  uniform 
in  qualit}'  and  tone. 

The  holiday  season  is  ap- 
proaching—  the  harvest  time. 
Now  is  your  time  to  commence 
the  education  of  your  patrons  in 
the  higher  quahty,  higher  priced 
work.  Spend  a  Kttte  thought  in 
devising  some  up  to  the  minute 
styles,  make  a  show  case  and  re- 
ception room  display  on  Angelo  — 
do  it  now  before  the  man  down 
the  street  comes  out  with  his  — 
and  you  will  be  a  long  way  on 
the  road  to  increased  profits. 


rpOO  GOOD  TO  MISS 

The  scope  of  the  Eastman 
School  of  Professional  Photog- 
raphy is  much  greater  than  the 
photographer  who  has  never  at- 
tended its  sessions  can  imagine. 

Every  man  on  the  school  staff 
is  a  picked  man ,  chosen  not  alone 
for  his  knowledge  of  things  pho- 
tographic, but  for  his  abilitj'  to 
intelligently  and  successfully  im- 
part his  knowledge  to  others. 
And  back  of  his  ability  as  a  pho- 
tographer and  instructor  he  must 
have  that  something,  magnetism, 
if  j'ou  will,  that  will  enable  him 
to  make  friends  and  to  impress 
everyone  attending  the  school 
that  he  is  working  for  his  especial 
benefit. 

And  back  of  each  instructor's 
skill  a7id  ability  is  the  combined 
brain  and  nerve  force  of  the  en- 
tire Eastman  organization,  and 


the  combined  brain  and  nerve 
force  of  every  photographer  in 
America.  By  this  we  mean  that 
the  school  corps  is  not  dependent 
upon  its  collective  skill  alone,  but 
is  ke])t  constantly  in  touch  with 
the  Eastman  organization,  and  its 
highlj^  skilled  staff  of  chemists 
and  inventors,  and  in  touch  with 
every  professional  in  America 
through  the  medium  of  the  trav- 
eling demonstrators  and  salesmen. 

New  and  imj)roved  methods 
for  producing  better  or  newer  re- 
sults, or  shorter  cuts  to  the  old 
ones .  are  constantly  1  )eing  brought 
to  light  from  these  varied  sources, 
and  everything  of  value  to  the 
school  instructors  is  taught  them 
thoroughly  and  at  once. 

Every  minute  of  the  three 
days  session  of  the  Eastman 
School  is  needed  to  cover  the  wide 
course  of  iustruction,  and  every 
minute  must  be  and  is  utilized  to 
the  best  advantage. 

No  matter  how  many  sessions 
of  the  Eastman  School  you  have 
attended,  it  will  more  than  re- 
pay you  to  attend  each  time  it  is 
in  your  territory,  as  the  school  is 
up  to  the  minute  and  each  ses- 
sion ])rovides  a  multitude  of  new 
things,  the  knowledge  of  which 
is  indispensal)le  to  the  man  in  the 
business  to  succeed. 


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R 


EAD    IT 


The  manufacturer  of  sen- 
sitized i)roducts  must  keep  up  to 
date.  No  matter  how  excellent 
his  product  may  be  he  must  con- 
tinually strive  to  make  it  still 
better  or  devise  formulas  or 
methods  for  working  that  will 
produce  even  finer  results.  You 
who  use  these  products  are  like- 
wise striving  to  produce  the  best 
possible  results  and  the  only  way 
you  can  keep  in  touch  with  the 
improvements  of  the  manufact- 
urer is  to  read  the  printed 
matter  sent  with  the  goods. 
Every  now  and  then  the  manu- 
facturer discovers  some  method 
for  improving  his  product,  such 
improvement  necessitating  a 
change  in  formula  or  in  manipu- 
lation; he  changes  his  direction 
sheets  in  accordance,  but  camiot 
otherwise  notify  each  individual 
consumer,  so  if  you  want  always 
to  secure  the  best  results,  do 
not  throw  away  the  direction 
sheet  without  comparing  it  with 
the  one  you  have  on  file. 


A  HANDY  DARK  ROOM 
LAMP 

We  illustrate  herewith  an  ex- 
ceedingly simple  and  practical 
dark  room  lamp  to  be  used  where 
electric  current  is  available. 

Procure  an  ordinary  two  quart 
glass  fruit  jar,  break  out  the  por- 
celain lining  in  the  cover  and  cut 


a  hole  through  the  co\er  just 
large  enough  to  fit  over  the 
socket  of  an  incandescent  electric 
lamp,  then  solder  cover  and  sock- 


et together.  Line  the  inside  of 
the  jar  with  two  thicknesses  of 
good  orange  post  office  paper. 
The  best  lamp  for  the  purpose  is 
an  eight  candle  power  show  case 
lamp,  the  same  as  shown  in  the 
illustration.  Screw  the  lamp 
into  the  socket  and  screw  cover 
onto  jar,  and  you  have  a  safe 
light  of  excellent  illuminating 
power. 

\Mien  you  desire  to  work  by 
white  light,  two  turns  will  re- 
move the  jar.  If  developing 
papers  are  being  worked,  obtain 
a  second  jar  and  line  with  light 
orange  paper,  screw  into  cover 
fastened  to  lamp  and  you  have  a 
safe  and  pleasant  light  for  load- 
ing and  development.  By  at- 
taching sufficient  cord  to  the 
lamp  it  can  be  moved  to  any  part 
of  the  dark  room  necessary  and 
you  have  three  lamps  at  a  trifling 
cost. 


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STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


TH  E    ONLY  CON- 
DITION 

We  make  but  one  condi- 
tion in  our  offer  of  cuts  for 
the  use  of  photographers. 

It  is  obvious  that  two 
photographers  in  the  same 
town  would  not  care  to  use 
the  same  cut,  and  we  are 
therefore  obliged  to  limit 
this  offer  to  one  photogra- 
pher in  a  town.  It  will  In- 
a  case  of  first  come  first 
served.  The  first  order 
from  a  city  will  l)eprom])tly 
filled.  Succeeding  orders  (if 
any)  will  necessarily  be 
turned  down  and  the  re- 
mittance, of  course,  will  be 
returned.  It  is  also  obvious 
that  we  cannot,  on  account 
of  the  cost  of  the  drawings, 
furnish  any  large  variety  of 
cuts  at  the  nominal  prices 
quoted,  and  therefore  can 
offer  no  substitute  cut.  The 
thing  to  do  is  to  get  your 
order  in  first,  as  it  would  not 
be  fair  to  give  the  man  who 
happens  to  get  in  his  order 
early  one  month,  a  permanent 
advantage ;  we  shall  book  no 
orders  in  advance.  They 
must  always  specify  the  num- 
ber of  cut  desired.  If  later 
on  it  develo]is  that  there  is 
a  great  enough  demand  for 
these  advertising  cuts  to  war- 
rant our  furnishing  a  larger 
variety,  we  shall  be  glad  to 


"A  picture  of  father 
and  mother.  "* — 

How  it  would  delight  your 
children,  how  it  Mould 
please  your  friends. 


The  Pyro  Studio 


do  so. 


C.  K.  Co.,  Ltd. 


No.  146.    Price,  50  cents. 


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25 


ADVERTISE 

"*■  ■*■  Now  is  the  time  to  get 
into  the  newsjjapers  —  don't  let 
a  week  pass  without  your  adver- 
tisement suggesting  photographs 
as  the  most  suitable  remem- 
brances and  also  influencing  the 
l)ul>lic  to  think  that  your  studio 
is  the  best  place  to  have  them 
made . 

If  you  have  not  been  making 
use  of  our  advertising  cut  service, 
the  whole  series  pulilished  is  at 
your  disposal  (provided,  of 
course,  that  they  have  not  been 
previously  used  in  your  town) 


and  we  will  issue  a  new  one  each 
month  to  help  you. 

Take  an  evening  or  two  and 
devise  plans  for  attracting  jjcople 
to  your  studio  and  for  getting 
orders  when  you  have  them  in 
to  see  you.  Keep  your  show 
case  busy  working  for  you  every 
minute.  Make  the  i)eople  think 
of  you  and  photograi)hs  everj" 
time  they  glance  over  the  news- 
paper and  every  time  they  pass 
your  studio. 

An  advertisement  just  once  in 
a  while  Avill  do  some  good ;  ad- 
vertising all  the  time  will  do  a 
lot  of  good,  so  keep  everlast- 
inglv  at  it. 


SMOOTH  ONLY 

/N  f/ic  Scptonhcr  number  the  ptrjfe.mon 
teas  advised  that  AngeJo  Sepia,  in  certain 

sizes,  zcas  siepi^Ued  from  Toronto,  and  on 
piige  20  of  the  same  issue  a  priee  list  teas 
sh(ncn.  This  list  reads  "Grades  Smooth  and 
llougli,''  hut  the  limited  demand  for  the  Rough 
does  not  rear  rant  packing  it  in  Canada;  and 
onJif  the  Smooth  uvV/  he  sup>pUed  at  prices  re- 
ferred to  above. 

See  page  31  of  this  issue. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


New  NEPERA  List 


NKPERA  is  not  furnished  in  dozens  in  sizes  smaller  than  5  x 
)rter  tlian  ten  yards,  unless  as  listed  below. 


SINGLE  WEIGHT. 


DOUBLE  WEIGHT. 


Dozen 

Vi  Gross 

Gross 

/^  CABINET  \ 

V&  X5I2 

Dozen 

H  Gross 

Gross 

$.85 

$1.50 

J         4X5         V 
\     414x54     { 
\     3'8X5'8 
'         4x6        / 

$1.00 

$1.90 

1.15 

1.95 

4I4  X  61^2 

1.45 

2.45 

1.30 

2.20 

4-'4  X  6!  2 

1.60 

2.75 

.25 

1.45 

2.40 

5X7 

.30 

1.85 

3.00 

.30 

1.60 

2.65 

5  X  7I/2 

.35 

2.00 

3.30 

.30 

1.60 

2.70 

5X8 

.35 

2.00 

3.40 

.35 

1.75 

3.00 

512x734 

.40 

2.20 

3.75 

.40 

2.05 

3.60 

6X8 

.45 

2.55 

4.50 

.40 

2.20 

3.85 

6I/2  X  8!^ 

.50 

2.75 

4  80 

.45 

2.50 

4.50 

7x9 

.55 

3.10 

5.65 

.50 

2.80 

5.25 

71 2  X9!2 

.70 

3.55 

6.55 

.55 

3.15 

5.85 

8  X  10 

.75 

3.95 

7.30 

.70 

3.80 

7.20 

9  X  11 

.90 

4.75 

9.00 

.K5 

4.75 

9.00 

10  X  12 

1.15 

5.95 

11.25 

1.10 

6.30 

11.70 

11  X  14 

1.45 

7.90 

14.65 

1.25 

7.45 

13.95 

12  X  15 

1.75 

9.30 

17.45 

1.65 

9.45 

18.00 

14  X  17 

2.25 

11.80 

22.50 

2.20 

12.60 

24.30 

16  X20 

3.05 

15.75 

30.40 

2.40 

13.50 

26.10 

17X20 

3.25 

16.90 

32.65 

2.70 

15.75 

30.60 

18  X  22 

3.85 

19.70 

38.25 

3.15 

18.45 

36.00 

20X24 

4.50 

23.05 

45.00 

Gross  and  half-jrross  packages  of  cut  sheets  of  paper  of  sizes  not  listed  will 
will  be  supplied  providing:  the  order  amounts  to  $1.00  list  or  more,  and  list  of 
same  will  be  practically  proportionate  to  that  of  listed  sizes. 

NEPERA  SECONDS  furnished  in  limited  quantities  in  all  surfaces  in  3''8  x 
5' :  (Cabinet^  and  4x6  only. 
Single  Weight,         .         $1 .00  per  gross    |    Double  Weight,         .        $1.25  per  gross 


ROLLS 


SINGLE  WEIGHT. 

10  ft.  Roll,  20  inches  wide,  .  $1.50 

10  ft.     ■'       40       "             "  .  3.00 

10  yd.    "       20      "            "  .  4.50 

10  yd.   "       40       ■'            "  .  9.00 


DOUBLE  WEIGHT. 

10  ft.  Roll,  20  inches  wide, 
10  ft.    "      40      " 
10  yd.  "      20      " 
10  yd.  "      40 


Rolls  10  yards  or  longer  are  supplied  in  any  width  up  to  40  inches. 
For  Prints  from  Cirkut  Negatives 


SINGLE  weight. 

DOl 

6i'  in.     8  in. 

10  in. 

16  in. 

6i  2  in 

25  ft. 

$1.25        $1.50 

$1.90 

$3.00 

25  ft. 

$1.60 

50  ft. 

2.50          3.00 

3.75 

6.00 

50  ft. 

3.15 

100  ft. 

4.95          6.00 

7.50 

12.00 

100  ft. 

6.30 

DOUBLE  WEIGHT. 

8  in.      10  in 
$1.90 
3.75 
7.50 


$2.35 
4.75 
9.45 


$1.90 
3.75 
5.65 

1 1 .25 


16  in. 

$3. 75 
7.50 
15.00 


CAXADIAX    KODAK  CO.,  Ltd.,  Toronto,  Can. 


//if  ARISTO  EAGLE  27 


For  the  best  Studio  in  town— 


EASTMAN 


PLATINUM 

A  distinctive  paper— all  the  richness 
of  Platinum  blacks,  with  a  delicate 
pleasing  warmth  found  in  no  other 
black  and  white  Platinum. 

Two  Grades :     Sjiiooth  and  Roug-h. 


Eastman  Kodak  Company 

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


\ 


THERE   IS   COMFORT 

as  well  as  CONVENIENCE  and  RESULTS  in  the 

EASTMAN  PLATE  TANK 

The  simiile  loading  device  permits  the  loading  of 
the  plates  into  the  rack  in  a  few  seconds,  with- 
out scratching  or  marring. 

The  air-tight,  locking  cover  allows  the  whole  tank 
to  he  reversed  —  no  ^fisliing  the  plate  rack  out  of 
the  solution  during  development — and  the  hand  on 
the  dial  tells  you  when  development  will  be 
completed. 

Eastman  Plate  Tank,  5x7,         -  $4.50 

Eastman  Plate  Tank,  8x10,       -  10.00 

CANADIAN   KODAK  CO.,  Limited 

TORONTO,  CAN. 


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30  STUDIO   LIGHT  on </ 


ROYAL 
NEPERA 

Pure  White 


The  developing  paper 
that  forgets  to  curl. 


Canadian 

Kodak 

Co. 

Ltd. 

Toronto, 
Canada 


1 


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ANGELO 

Sepia  Platinum  Paper 


SMOOTH  SURFACE 


Cabinet 

Per  Dozen 

% 

.55 

65^  X     8>^ 

i  i        It 

1.25 

8       X  10      . 

a            a 

1.85 

20       X  26      . 

Per  %  Dozen 

2.60 

20       X  26      . 

.           .          -    %       " 

5.00 

20       X  26      . 

Per  Dozen 

10.00 

Roll,  20  inches  wide  by  26  feet  long, 

equal  to  one  dozen  20  x  26  sheets  10.00 

Roll,  20  inches  wide  by  13  feet  long, 

equal  to  six  20  x  26  sheets 
Angelo  Sepia  Solution  (/^  gal.  bottle) 
Angelo  Sepia  Solution  ( 1  pint  bottle) 
Angelo  Sepia  Solution  (6  oz.  bottle) 
Angelo  Sepia  Solution  (.'5  oz.  bottle) 
Angelo  Sepia  Solution  (2  oz.  amateur 

size)  ..... 

Angelo  Sepia  Salts  (/2  lb.)  . 
Angelo  Sepia  Salts  {}i  \h.)  . 
Angelo  Sepia  Salts   (Amateur  size) 

Sepia  Solution  is  packed  in  cases  contain! 
6-oz. ;  96  3-oz.  or  96  of  the  amateur  size  bottles 

Sepia  Salts  are  packed  in  cases  containing  79  ^2"lh. ;  144  14-lb. 
or  144  amateur  size  packages. 

CANADIAN  KODAK  CO.,  Limited 

TORONTO,  CANADA 


((              C( 

5.00 

i<           ei 

8.00 

a           a 

2.50 

a           (I 

1.00 

ii           (( 

.50 
.35 

a           ii 

.SO 

(t           a 

.15 

ii           ii 

.10 

ng  8  1 2-gal. 

,36 

pint;  48 

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STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


DON  T  FORGET 

That  the  DRUMMOND  style  is  one  of  the  best  on  the  market.  You 
are  sure  to  make  a  hit  with  your  customers  if  you  use  this  style. 


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Copyrighted  1909  by  the  Lumiere  Studio 

FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATING  PRINT 


By  Hvrman  Heyn 


Omaha,  Neb. 


NEW  SERIES 
Vol.  1     No.  9 


NOVEMBr.R  1909 


OLD    SERIES 

No.  106 


A 


RTURA    AN    EAST- 
MAN PRODUCT 

The  best  in  evei-y  branch  of 
photograi)hy  for  every  one  of  our 
customers  —  that's  the  kejnote 
of  our  business.  Originate  im- 
provements, spare  no  expense  in 
making  better  goods,  but  when 
somebody  else  has  made  a  marked 
advance  in  the  production  of  a 
certain  class  of  goods,  be  big 
enough  and  broad-gauge  enough 
to  recognize  the  facts  and  acquire 
the  benefits  for  our  customers — 
that  is  our  pohcy. 

Having  become  convinced  that 
Artura  is  the  product  that  best 
meets  the  requii'ements  of  the 
professional  photographer  in  a  de- 
\  eloi)ment  paper,  we  have  pur- 
chased the  business  of  the  Artu- 
ra Photo  Paper  Co.  This  pur- 
chase means  Artura  quality  plus. 
Under  the  same  superintendence 
in  manufacture,  that  of  Mr.  M. 
A.  Yauck,  Artura  will  have  the 
added  advantage,  as  soon  as  the 
necessary  details  can  be  worked 
out,  of  our  Kodak  Park  facilities, 
and  when  its  manufacture  begins 
there,  the  still  fin-ther  advantage 
of  distribution  through  the  East- 


man dealers  everywhere,  a  dis- 
tinct convenience  to  all  Artura 
consumers. 

We  have  purcha.sed  the  Artura 
Photo  Paper  Co.,  but  we  recog- 
nize the  fact  that  a  i)hotographic 
manufacturing  business  is  some- 
thing more  than  a  few  formulae 
and  certain  buildings  and  ma- 
chinery. The  personnel  of  a 
going  concern  is  by  no  means  its 
least  important  part.  We  are 
pleased  to  announce  that  in  taking 
over  the  Artura  Company  we 
have  not  only  secured  the  ser- 
vices of  Mr.  Yauck,  but  also  of 
Mr.  Schuyler  Colfax,  and,  with 
the  exception  of  Dr.  Early,  who 
retires  from  the  photographic 
business,  all  of  the  important 
members  of  the  Artura  staff. 

Good  business  for  ourselves, 
we  believe,  consists  in  furnishing 
to  the  photographers  the  best 
goods  in  every  department.  Ar- 
tura rounds  out  our  line  abso- 
lutely and  with  our  facilities  for 
manufacturing  and  marketing,  we 
expect  to  make  Artura  more  val- 
uable to  ourselves  by  making  it 
invaluable  to  the  photographer. 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


A 


BOUT  NEWSPAPER 
ADVERTISING 

The  editor  has  consented  to  let 
me  talk  to  you  about  advertismg. 
You  know  an  advertising  man' s 
job  and  an  editor's  task  are  a 
good  deal  alike  in  one  way— every 
outsider  thinks  he  could  do  the 
job  better.  Writing  stuff  is  such 
easy  Avork  any  way,  that  most 
people  take  particular  delight  in 
criticising  their  morning  paper — 
and  the  advertisements  therein. 
Between  you  and  me  I  think  I 
could  get  out  a  better  photo- 
graphic magazine  than — but  per- 
haps I'd  better  not  touch  on  that 
tojjic  here. 

In  the  minds  of  many  people 
there's  a  misconception  of  what 
advertising  really  is — they  look 
upon  it  as  a  rather  hit  or  miss 
game  and  think  that  all  public- 
ity, no  matter  how  achieved,  is 
good.  Some  even  go  so  far  as 
to  mistake  notoriety  for  fame  and 
forget  that  the  ultimate  end  of 
business  advertising  is  to  sell 
goods. 

I  take  it  that  I  can  pass  over 
that  first  and  last  part  of  an  ad- 
vertising man's  proposition — that 
to  advertise  profitably  the  first 
requisite  is  good  goods.  I  know 
that  all  of  you  must  be  making 
and  delivering  good  goods  and 
that  you  exi)ect  to  make  them 
still  better  in  future.  Now,  what 
do  you  want  to  accomplish  by 
your  advertising  ?  Sell  pictures. 
Right.     As  I   look  at  it,   there 


are  two  things  that  your  adver- 
tising must  do.  First,  it  must 
make  people  want  pictures,  and, 
next,  the  desire  for  pictures  hav- 
ing been  created,  it  must  con- 
vince them  that  the  place  to  go 
for  the  lectures  is  your  studio. 

Whj^  not  keep  them  reminded 
that  baby  is  growing  up  and  that 
mother  is  growing  old,  that  Susie 
will  never  graduate  but  once,  and 
that  John  and  Mary  hope  never 
to  be  married  but  once,  and  that 
there  are  many  ages  of  man  and 
Avoman  and  that  in  e\  ery  one  of 
them  their  friends  and  relatives 
are  interested.  And  then  tell 
them  that  you  know  how  to  make 
them  feel  at  home,  and  tell  them 
how  you  have  all  the  new,  good 
things  in  the  way  of  up-to-date- 
ness in  your  studio,  whereby  you 
can  furnish  pictures  that  their 
friends  will  really  cherish. 

But  you've  got  to  keep  a-ding- 
ing  and  a-dinging  and  a-dinging, 
and,  what's  moi-e,  you  are  not 
going  to  be  able  to  see  what  we 
advertising  men  call  "  visible  re- 
turns." Aliout  a  year  ago  a  cer- 
tain small  merchant  asked  me  to 
advise  him  about  his  local  adver- 
tising. I  said,  "  By  all  means  use 
the  newspapers  and  keep  at  it." 
He  did,  and  I  want  to  say  for 
him  that  he  published  some  verj' 
clever  advertisements.  A  few 
weeks  ago  he  complained  to  me 
that  he  could  see  no  results.  I 
said:  "My  dear  fellow,  do  you 
expect  people  are  going  to  fonn 
m  line  and   come  to  your  store 


the   ARISTO   EAGLE 


FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 
By  Herman  Heijn  Omaha,  Neb. 


STUDIO  LIGHT  and 


and  hand  you  $20  .  00  bills  , 
with  the  remark,  I  saw  your  ad 
in  the  Herald  '  ?  "  But  let' s  have 
a  look.  His  business  in  the  goods 
advertised  had  doubled  in  the 
first  six  months  of  1909?  as  com- 
pared with  the  corresponding 
period  in  1908,  though  he  had 
had  live  competition  all  the  time. 
His  advertising  had  paid  him, 
and  paid  him  well — but  he  did 
not  know  it.  The  truth  is  that 
people,  nine  times  out  of  ten, 
don't  know  when  they  are  re- 
sponding to  advertising.  This  is 
fortunate,  for  some  of  'ein  are 
just  contrary  enough  so  that  they 
wouldn't  respond  if  they  knew 
that  they  were  acting  on  some- 
body's else  suggestion.  Create  a 
demand  for  pictures  and  then 
persuade  people  that  you  are  the 
man  to  make  'em.  It's  in  let- 
ting the  second  condition  over- 
shadow the  first  that  most  of  us 
are  prone  to  be  weak.  Who  is 
your  competitor.''  The  Smith 
Studio  dowTi  the  street?  No. 
Your  competitor  is  the  jeweler, 
the  bookseller,  the  music  dealer, 
the  confectioner,  the  theater, 
even  the  milliner.  Your  compet- 
itor is  anybody  who  sells  luxuries 
to  the  same  people  to  whom  you 
sell,  or  would  like  to  sell  photo- 
graphs. The  Roliinson  familj'  has 
a  suri)lus  of  $3.5.00  that's  going 
to  disappear  into  the  channels  of 
trade  aljout  Christmas  time.  If 
you  want  to  get  part  of  that 
$35.00  you  must  convince  the 
Robinsons  that  it's  a  shame  they 


haven't  any  pictures  to  send 
home  to  mother  for  Christmas; 
she  would  appreciate  them  so 
much  more  than  she  would  a  tidy 
for  the  parlor  lamp.  Getting  peo- 
ple to  wanting  more  pictures  is 
far  easier  and  far  better  for  you 
than  trjing  to  drag  business  away 
fi-om  the  Smith  Studio. 

And  advertise  the  popular 
thing.  I  have  intimate  knowl- 
edge of  a  maiuifacturing  business 
that,  for  several  years,  had  been 
running  behind  to  the  tune  of 
$100,000  a  year.  It  spent  a  lot 
of  money  in  advertising  and  spent 
it  mostly  trying  to  move  off  un- 
popular stuff.  There  came  a 
change  of  management.  The 
junk  went  under  the  boilers,  the 
catchy,  live  stuff  was  advertised, 
and  the  new  management  showed 
a  small  profit  the  first  six  months, 
and  inside  of  two  years  the  profits 
were  ruiuiing  a  hundred  thous- 
and dollars  per  j^ear. 

But  there's  a  heap  of  graft 
hidden  behind  the  name  of  ad- 
vertising. When  you  buy  Hypo 
you  expect  to  get  l6  ounces  to 
the  pound.  When  you  buy  ad- 
vertising, you  ought  to  know 
what  you  are  getting  and  Avhat 
the  market  price  is.  I  can  give 
to  j'Ou  an  illustration  of  how  it 
goes  in  my  line  and  point  a  finger 
of  warning  at  the  fake  schemes, 
—  though  I'm  going  to  admit 
right  now  that  the  advertising 
fakir  often  doesn't  know  he's  a 
fakir.  He's  absolutely  ignoi-ant 
of  the  business. 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


FROM  AN  ARISTO  I'LATINO  PRINT 


By  Herman  Heyn 


Omaha,  Keb, 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


The  average  price  paid  bj-  a 
general  advertiser  for  space  in  the 
standard  magazines  is  a  little 
more  than  one  dollar  per  page 
(5/^x8  tyi)e)  per  thousand  cir- 
culation. The  very  high-class 
magazines  like  Harper '  s  and  Cen- 
turj'  get  rather  more  than  this, 
but  such  pul)hcations  as  Argosy, 
All-Story,  etc.,  where  the  rate 
is  only  60e  to  80c  per  page  per 
thousand,  bring  the  avei-age  down 
so  that  we  are  not  far  wrong  in 
saying  a  dollar  per  page  per 
thousand. 

Now,  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
are  about  to  hold  a  picnic  and 
they  sell  the  advertising  privi- 
lege in  the  program  to  some  good 
fellov/  out  of  a  job.  He  pays 
150.00  or  $100.00,  or  perhaps 
$200.00,  and  starts  out  with  a 
dummy  under  his  arm.  He  hits 
up  the  banks  and  the  local  mer- 
chants and  perhaps  the  photog- 
raphers, and  bye  and  bye  goes 
up  against  a  national  advertiser. 

The  advertising  manager 
doesn't  believe  the  medium  is 
any  good  anyway,  because  an  ad 
to  be  influential  should  have  a 
responsible  publication  behind  it, 
but  he  puts  the  question : 

"What's  the  price?" 

"120.00." 

"Too  much." 

"Whj',  you  pay  8500.00  for  a 
page  in  Everjbody's  Magazine." 

"Will  you  accept  an  order  at 
the  same  rater " 

"Why,  what  do  you  mean? 
Yes." 


"Verj'well.  How  many  copies 
are  you  gouig  to  print?" 

"800." 

"I'll  take  a  page  at  the  Everj'- 
body's  rate — that  would  be  80 
cents." 

"But  it  costs  me  more  than 
that  to  print  it."  replies  the  so- 
licitor, beginning  to  back  water. 

"Certainly  it  does,  but  80c  is 
what  it  costs  me  for  a  page  in 
800  copies  of  Everybody's  Mag- 
azine. You  said  your  rates  were 
low.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  they 
are  25  times  as  high  as  the  rates 
in  the  average  magazine,  and  in 
my  opinion  the  advertising  is  far 
less  valual)le  per  copy." 

"Ciood-day." 

"Good-day." 

Likewise  you  should  make 
comparisons  with  your  newspaper 
rate  when  the  program  solicitor 
attacks — not  a  comparison  of  page 
for  page,  because  your  newsj^aper 
page  is  large  and  his  page  is 
small,  but  a  comparison  of  space 
for  space.  It  is  evident  that  the 
rates  are  higher  in  proportion  to 
circulation  in  the  country  news- 
paper than  in  the  big  city  daily 
because  newspaper  making  is  sim- 
ply a  manufacturing  projiosition 
after  all,  and  the  newspaper  pub- 
lisher with  a  hundred  thousand 
circulation  can  therefore  easily 
undersell  the  one  with  only  a 
thousand,  but  it's  the  paper  with 
the  thousand  that  interests  i/oii 
if  it  goes  to  a  thousand  people  in 
your  neighborhood  who  might  be 
induced  to  come  to  i/our  studio. 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


On  the  average  you  can  buy  space, 
if  you  contract  for  a  reasonably 
large  amount  at  one  time,  for 
about  seven  cents  per  column 
inch  per  insertion  for  each  thous- 
and of  circulation  in  small  papers 
— much  less  in  large  ones.  At 
that  rate  a  double  column  adver- 
tisement, eight  inches  deep  (to- 
tal 16  inches),  would  cost  you 
one  dollar  and  twelve  cents  for  a 
thousand  circulation.  This  space 
is  about  equal  in  size  to  that  of- 
fered you  as  "  a  page  in  the  pro- 
gram of  the  Amalgamated  Avi- 
ators picnic  of  which  one  thous- 
and are  to  be  printed  (and  6OO 
thrown  away)  at  the  very  low 
price  often  dollars." 

"But  sometimes,"  you  say,  "I 
simply  have  to  go  into  the  pro- 
gram of  the  church  entertain- 
ment, the  firemen's  convention, 
etc."  True.  But  don't  charge 
that  up  to  advertising;  charge  it 
to  "good-will"  account.  But  in- 
vestigate the  matter  before  you 
go  into  such  things  and  find  out 
whether  you  are  really  paying 
your  money  to  the  church  or  other 
commendable  charitj',  or  whether 
you  are  pajing  it  to  the  solicitor 
who  has  taken  over  the  adver- 
tising as  a  private  speculation. 
On  one  point  you  may  be  sure — 
he  won't  volunteer  the  infomia- 
tion. 

In  my  opinion  the  newspaper 
should  form  the  backbone  of  the 
advertising  for  every  photogra- 
pher in  cities  of  25,000  or  less, 
and  of  the  centrallj"  located  pho- 


tographers in  cities  up  to  a  hund- 
red thousand.  In  the  big  cities 
this  doesn't  apply.  For  instance, 
the  photogi-apher  on  125th  street 
in  New  York  could  not  afford  to 
advertise  in  the  metropolitan 
dailies  because  probalily  not  more 
than  3  per  cent,  of  the  total  cir- 
culation would  be  in  his  imme- 
diate neighborhood.  He  would 
have  to  pay,  therefore,  for  97 
per  cent,  waste  circulation,  waste, 
that  is,  so  far  as  he  is  concerned. 
Above  all,  newspaper  adver- 
tising should  not  be  spasmodic. 
Small  space  every  week  in  the 
year  in  small  towns  where  there 
are  no  dailies,  and  say  two  to 
three  times  a  week  where  there 
are  dailies,  is  much  more  ef- 
fective than  a  big  splurge  three 
or  four  times  a  year;  but  best  of 
all,  if  your  bank  account  will 
stand,  is  the  constant  small  ad 
and  the  occasional  big  one.  And 
change  your  copy,  change  your 
copy,  change  your  copy.  Give 
'em  new  stuff  every  time  if  you 
have  to  sit  up  nights  to  do  it. 
The  best  way  is  to  write  up  a 
lot  of  advertisements  when  you 
have  the  time,  so  that  you  won't 
have  to  tell  the  publisher  to  "run 
the  old  ad"  when  he  phones  you 
about  it  at  the  last  minute.  Make 
the  ads  short,  simple,  and  as  con- 
versational in  style  as  you  can. 
When  you  get  something  new 
tell  folks  about  it  in  just  a  plain 
homely  way.  Just  talk  common 
sense  in  your  ads,  and  use  the 
same  sense  in  buying  space  in  the 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


pai)ers.  Compare  rates  and  cir- 
culation, and  in  comparing  circu- 
lation make  the  comparison  both 
as  to  quahty  and  quantity.  Use 
the  same  care  in  preparing  your 
advertisements  that  you  do  in 
making  your  pictures,  use  the 
same  care  in  buying  space  that 
j'ou  do  in  buj'ing  materials — and 
keep  at  it. 

There  are  other  methods  of 
advertising  that  are  of  unques- 
tionable value  to  every  studio — 
but  in  my  opinion  the  newspaper 
should  be  the  backbone  of  all 
local  publicity  work.  Just  good, 
dignfied,  common-sense  talks 
aliout  pictures  in  general  and 
your  pictures  in  particular,  with- 
out the  expectation  of  inniiediate 
and  overwhelming  results  must 
help  in  the  building  up  of  the 
business  of  the  studio,  provided, 
of  course,  that  the  newspaper 
advertising  is  backed  up  by  an 
attractive  show  case,  an  inviting 
studio,  courteous  treatment  of 
customers,  and  above  all — good 
goods. 

The  Ad  Max. 


B 


OTH  WAYS  NOW 


You  Need  That 
Eastman  Plate 
Tank 

JVow 


In  most  instances  the  peo- 
ple who  spend  money  for  the 
higher  classes  of  portrait  work 
have  their  picture  taken  fre- 
quently and  naturally  become 
more  or  less  familiar  with  styles 
and  photogi-aphie  possibihties. 
They  may  not,  probably  do  not, 
know  the  various  papers  by  name, 
but  they  do  have  a  preference 
for  this,  that  or  the  other  photo- 
grajihic  effect.  They  come  to  you 
primarily  because  they  recognize 
your  ability  as  an  artist — j'our 
ability  to  produce  portraits  above 
the  average — but  from  the  fact 
that  they  have  their  portraits 
taken  frequently  wish  something 
different,  both  in  stjle  and  finish, 
and  w'hen  you  show  them  some- 
thing new  and  when  that  some- 
thing new  shows  qualitj^  all  the 
way  through,  a  most  satisfactory 
order  is  sure  to  be  booked. 

A  goodly  number  of  this  higher 
class  of  patrons  have  always  had 
a  leaning  towards  platinum  —  its 
soft,  velvety  effects  and  delicate 
gradations  ajipealing  to  their 
sense  of  the  artistic. 

You  have  been  able  -with  An- 
gelo  to  show  them  sepias  that 
were  everything  that  could  be 
desired,  but  have  been  some- 
what handica])i)ed  when  it  came 
to  delicate  black  and  white  effects 
in  platinum  because  the  ordinary 
black  and  white  platinum  is  too 
cold  in  tone  to  be  pleasing.  Tex- 
ture and   gradation  were  there, 


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11 


but  that  subtle  suggestion  of 
warmth,  the  flesh  value  tone  if 
you  Avill,  was  lacking. 

Now  you  can  show  them  black 
and  white  platinums  that  will  in- 
stantly appeal,  as  the  new  East- 
man Etching  Black  Platinum  has 
that  slight  warmth  of  tone.  And 
the  new  Etching  Black  is  so  flex- 
ible, for  dark  backgrounds,  for 
vignettes  or  line  effects — to  all  it 
lends  itself  perfectly  to  your  ar- 
tistic inclination,  and  as  it  is  sup- 
plied in  both  smooth  and  rough 
you  can  run  the  Avhf)le  gamut  of 
artistic  interpretation  with  the 
assurance  that  Etching  Black  will 
afford  just  the  right  effect. 

Etching  Black  is  exceedingly 
simple  to  manijiulate,  Avith  great 
latitude  in  both  printing  and  de- 
velopment, and  is  cold  developed. 
The  annual  harvest  time  is  at 
hand,  show  the  extra  price  pat- 
rons some  of  your  best  Avork  on 
Etching  Black,  and  an  extra  crop 
is  j'ours. 


PHOTOGRAPHERS  AS- 
SOCIATION OF  WEST- 
ERN CANADA 

The  Eastman  School  of  Pro- 
fessional Photography,  recently 
held  under  the  auspices  of  Duffin 
&  Co., Ltd.,  Winnipeg,  attracted 
a  large  number  of  i)hotographers 
from  that  section  of  the  country, 
and  during  the  week  of  the 
school  a  meeting  of  the  visiting 
photographers  was  held  to  form 


the  Photographers  Association  of 
Western  Canada. 

There  were  present  at  the  meet- 
ing' Paul  Denison,  Indian  Head; 
Frank  Gowen  and  S.  Davidson, 
Brandon;  G.  B.  Warbiirton,  Wilkie, 
Sask. ;  Douglas  H.  Gibson,  Bran- 
don; G.  H.  Llewellyn,  R.  F.  A. 
McFadden,  A.  A.  Gentzel,  W.  W. 
Robson,  A.  L.  Lee,  of  Winnipeg; 
Harold  H.  Tilley,  Minnedosa;  A. 
Silver,  Dryden ;  Albert  Smith,  Shoal 
Lake;  N.  J.  Osborne,  Boissevain; 
J.  L.  Edlunds,  Claresholm;  C.  M. 
Burk,  Edmonton ;  P.  W.  Rowe, 
Yorkton ;  G.  W.  Sparling,  Portage 
la  Prairie;  James  Paynter,  Car- 
berry;  E.  Smith,  Glenboro;  W.  K. 
Ranton,  Treherne;  C.  Jessup,  Glad- 
stone; F.  Steele,  Winnipeg;  Wm. 
Minns,  Gladstone;  A.  J.  Lawrence, 
Birtle;  A.  Schmidt,  Winnipeg;  Fred 
Ransdale,  Moosomin  ;  G.  S.  Jenkins, 
Deloraine;  H.  L.  Jones,  Elbow;  J. 
W.Gibson,  Winnipeg; A.  J.  Rawson, 
Dauphin  ;  G.  E.  Durrant,  Hartney  ; 
W.  Jackson,  W^innipeg;  S.  E.  Prest; 
Morden;  Frank  W.  Weekes;  Vir- 
den ;  H.  J.  Strong,  Winnipeg ;  J.  G. 
Banks,  Kenora;  J.  L.  Hamilton, 
Weyburn. 

The  following  officers  were 
elected:  President,  W.  W.  Robson, 
Winnipeg;  vice  presidents,  J.  G. 
Banks,  Kenora;  C.  M.  Burk,  Ed- 
monton; S.  E.  Prest,  Morden;  Fred 
Ransdale,  Moosomin;  secretary- 
treasurer,  A.  L.  Lee,  Winnipeg; 
executive,  A.  E.  Gentzel,  Winni- 
peg; G.  W.  Sparling,  Portage  la 
Prairie;  P.  M.  Rowe,  Saskatoon; 
Frank  Gowen,  Brandon,  and  R.  T. 
McFadden,  Winnipeg;  auditors,  W. 
K.  Ranton,  Treherne,  and  G.  S. 
Jenkins,  Deloraine. 


Advertise- 


Every  mer- 
cha  n  t     in 

town  is  your  competitor  in  the 

Holiday  Season. 


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TT^OR  a  novelty  to  bring  the  extra 
^  Christmas  dollars  in,  see  page 
32  —  the  Prince  of  Wales  calendar 
will  do  it. 


A 


NEW    POST 
CAMERA 


CARD 


In  the  advertisings  section  we 
illustrate  the  new  R.  O.  C.  Post 
Card  Camera. 

Aside  from  quality  and  price 
there  is  not  a  great  deal  that  can 
be  said  about  an  instrument  of 
this  tyjie  as  it  has  no  comi)licated 
adjustments  or  unusual  features. 
But — the  appearance  of  the  cam- 
era used  for  post  card  work  has 
a  good  deal  to  do  with  the  price 
you  can  demand  for  your  work. 
There  is  a  good  profit  in  good 
post  cards,  and  jour  patrons  will 
without  doubt  be  influenced  re- 
garding the  (]uality  of  your  work 
by  the  appearance  of  the  instru- 
ment you  use. 

The  new  R.  O.  C.  Post  Card 
Camera  sells  for  only  twelve  dol- 
lars, yet  it  is  of  most  substan- 
tial construction  and  well  fin- 
ished, having  the  appearance  of 
an  instrument  selling  for  a  good 
deal  more  money. 


rpWO   TIME    SAVERS 

-^  We  illustrate  herewith  two 
new  studio  conveniences — neces- 
sities is  the  better  word,  as  both 
articles  are  important  enough  in 
the  saving  of  time  to  come  under 
that  heading. 


Four-in-One  Grouper,  Nested 


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Four-in-One  Groupers,  Ready  for  Use 


We  all  have  experienced  the 
difficulties  in  photographing 
groups,  even  small  ones,  and  to 
arrange  them  properly  and  ef- 
fectively has  been  no  small  task. 
There  are  a  number  of  different 
sets  of  grouping  seats  or  stool 


The  new  pjastman  "Four  in 
One"  Groupers  are  not  only  per- 
fect as  groupers,  but  when  not 


Eastman  Trimming:  Board 


the  market,  most  of  them  pretty 
good  for  the  purpose,  but  serious- 
ly in  the  way  when  not  in  use,  and 
when  wanted  one  or  more  is  pret- 
ty apt  to  have  been  misplaced. 


in  use  nest  together  as  shown  in 
the  illustration,  thus  taking  up 
the  minimum  amount  of  space 
and  likewise  insuring  the  com- 
plete  set   being  on  hand  when 


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STUDIO    LIGHT   and 


wanted.  Each  one  of  the  set  is 
of  good  sohd  oak,  splendidly  fin- 
ished in  mission  style.  The  price 
of  the  complete  set  is  only  ten 
dolbirs. 

With  the  new  Eastman  Trim- 
ming Board  all  you  have  to  do  is 
to  place  the  print  in  position  and 
l)ress  down  with  the  same  hand 
that  holds  the  print— no  lost  time 
or  motion,  no  reachino;  up  and 
back  for  the  trimming  blade 
handle,  and  no  danger  of  cut 
fingers  from  the  trimming  blade 
falling  down  through  accident. 

The  board  is  provided  with  an 
accurate  rule,  and  is  also  divided 
into  squares  and  equipj)ed  with  a 
transparent  trimming  gauge,  so 
that  to  trim  a  jn'int  "oif  square" 
is  a  difficult  matter.  The  blade 
is  12^^  inches  long,  so  the  trim- 
mer is  ample  in  size  for  all  ordi- 
nary studio  requirements. 

The  price  of  the  Eastman 
Trimming  Board  is  four  dollars. 
Your  dealer  has  both  the  grouj)- 
ers  and  trimming  boards  in  stock . 

Send  them  up  to-day }  C'ei-- 
tainly. 


M 


AKE  THEM 
WORK 


BOTH 


We  can  have  no  better  evi- 
dence of  the  determination  of  the 
profession  to  make  everything 
count  between  now  and  Christ- 
mas, than  the  big  jump  in  orders 
for  our  advertising  cuts.  A  good 
many  of  you  have  ordered  and 


made  use  of  every  cut  we  have 
issued  —  that  it  has  paid  you  is 
evidenced  by  the  steady  re-or- 
ders. Whether  you  have  or  have 
not  been  using  these  cuts,  noiv  is 
the  time  to  get  into  the  news- 
papers good  and  strong.  During 
the  holiday  season  every  mer- 
chant in  town  is  your  competitor. 
You  won't  have  to  look  very  hard 
to  see  that  they  are  letting  the 
public  know  Avhat  they  ha\e  to 
sell  and  that  they  are  putting 
forth  every  effort  to  attract  the 
people  with  money  to  spend. 

Your  show  case  is  a  splendid 
selling  asset,  so  are  the  mer- 
chants' show  windows,  and  if  the 
merchant  cannot  depend  upon 
his  show  windows  alone,  neither 
can  j'ou. 

Make  both  your  show  case  and 
the  newspapers  work  good  and 
hard  for  you  from  now  till  up  to 
Christmas. 


o 


UR    ILLUSTRATIONS 


Herman  Heyn  of  Omaha, 
Nebraska,  is  a  maker  of  pictures 
that  sell  and  stay  sold.  Mr. 
Heyn  is  a  firm  believer  in  quality 
all  the  way  through  —  he  puts  the 
best  that's  in  him  into  every 
negative  he  makes  and  prints 
them  upon  Aristo  because  he 
knows  Aristo  will  permanently 
record  all  the  good  work  he  has 
put  in  the  negative.  A  study  of 
the  reproductions  from  Mr. 
Heyn's  prints  in  this  issue  will 
fully  demonstrate  this. 


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D 


OUBLE    DUTY 


With  every  sitting  j'ou 
have  got  to  make  one  or  more 
negatives,  and  after  a  dozen  or 
perhaps  two  dozen  prints  have 
l>een  made   those  negatives  re- 
tire to  the  Avaiting  hst  perhaps 
never  to  be  called  into  use  again. 
To  find  something  to  offset  the 
cost   of  the  extra   sitting  nega- 
tives, and  to  help  pay  the  cost  of 
those  stored  a^vay  is  the  aim  of 
all  of  us.     A  plan  that  works 
well   in    the    majority   of  cases 
is  to  make  a  first-class  enlarge- 
ment from  the  negative  that 
has  pleased  your  patron  particu- 
larly well,    and  show  it  at   the 
time  you  deliver  the  small  prints 
or  at  a  later  date,   as   circum- 
stances   seem    to   best   warrant. 
An  eleven  by  fourteen  enlarge- 
ment can  be  sold  anjwhere  from 
two  to  five  dollars,  according  to 
the  price  you  are   charging  for 
your  regular  prints,  and  at  either 
price  Avill   show  a   good   ])r()fit. 
When  the  enlargement  fails  to 
sell,  as  sometimes  happens,  you 
can  request  the  privilege  of  hang- 
ing it  in  your  studio  as  a  sample 
—a  little  tact  in  making  the  re- 
quest will  most  always  secure  the 
l)ermission  and  sometimes  effect 
a  sale. 

The  profession  is  rapidly  learn- 
ing that  it  is  a  simple  matter  to 
make  good  enlargements,  and 
that  the  cost  of  installing  the 
necessary  apparatus  is  very  small 
— in  fact  most  all  of  you  already 


have  practically  all  that  is  nec- 
essary. 

We  have  in  jiress  a  new  edi- 
tion of  our  booklet,  "Enlarging, 
a  booklet  of  suggestion  for  the 
professional,"  and  will  be  very 
glad  to  send  you  a  copy  ujion 
request  and  to  supply  any  further 
information  that  may  be  desired. 

Put  in  an  enlarging  i)lant  and 
make  your  negatives  do  the 
double  duty  that  helps  to  double 
profit. 

^1 

THE  AIM  OF  THE  WO- 
MEN'S SECTION,  P. 
A.  OF  A. 

The  W.  S.  of  the  P.  A.  of  A. 
is  destined,  we  hope,  to  greatly 
further  the  interest  and  aims  of 
the  A\  omen  in  our  profession.  The 
benefit  derived  from  the  ex- 
change of  prints  last  year  war- 
rants the  continuance  of  the 
arrangement  as  an  important  part 
of  the  season's  progress — the 
members  pledging  themselves  to 
send  on  to  the  next  member, 
after  a  stated  interval,  the  print 
they  have  themselves  in  turn  re- 
ceived. Co-operation  in  this  "Cir- 
cle" is  optional,  but  the  inter-  , 
change  of  ideas  and  technic  is 
valuable.  Our  gift  of  observa- 
tion can  be  cultivated,  our  am- 
bition stimulated  by  being  famil- 
iar with  the  art  and  originality 
in  what  is  being  done  by  our  fel- 
low-workers. \\'e  must  assist 
individually  to  draw  our  federa- 


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By  Herman  Heyn  Omaha,  Neb. 


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17 


FROM  AN  AIIISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 
By  Herman  Heyn  Omahn,  Neb. 


II 


STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


tioii  into  an  organic  whole,  alive 
and  vital  in  every  part. 

Mary  Carxell, 
Pres.  Women's  Section,  P.  A.  of  A. 


The  purpose  of  our  organiza- 
tion is:  Bj'  co-operation  to 
strengthen  and  develop  the  ar- 
tistic, ethical  and  business  side 
of  our  work — to  practically  dem- 
onstrate the  value  of  exhibitions 
thoughtfully'  conducted,  as  a 
stimulus  to  study  and  effort  — 
to  create  opportunities  for  mu- 
tual criticisms  and  exchange  of 
thought  along  these  lines  —  to 
encourage  the  other  women  of 
our  profession. 

Ctertrude  Kasebier, 
Chairman  of  Eastern  Section. 
315  5th  Ave.,  New  York. 


While  woman's  place  in  our 
profession  is  so  thoroughlj^  estab- 
lished and  so  universally  accepted 
as  an  accomplished  fact  that  it 
needs  no  separate  section  of  the 
P.  A.  of  A.  to  gain  recognition, 
it  is  certain  that  great  good  can 
come  from  this  movement. 

Those  of  us  who  have  ex- 
hil)ited  prints  in  the  past  have 
asked  no  favors  because  we  were 
women,  nor  hesitated  to  exhibit 
because  our  work  was  made  a 
part  of  the  general  display. 
There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that 
if  at  the  next  convention  the 
Woman's  Section  makes  a  sepa- 
rate disjilay.  it  will  attract  much 
greater   attention    because    it    is 


separate,  thus  calling  specific  at- 
tention to  the  fact  that  it  is  the 
work  of  woman,  and  so  offering 
a  comparison. 

In  entering  into  such  a  move- 
ment it  is  desirable  that  our  ex- 
hibiti(jn  be  as  complete  and  rep- 
resentative as  possible.  Therefore 
we  are  asking  you  to  begin  now 
to  lay  aside  negatives  which  you 
consider  worthy  and  that  you 
continue  to  do  this  until  next 
Maj^  Then  comjjare  and  cull 
these  negatives  till  you  are  sure 
you  have  selected  the  best  of 
them,  and  send  three  prints  suit- 
alily  framed  for  display. 

We  ask  you  to  do  this  for  the 
honor  of  the  Women  Photog- 
raphers of  America. 

Belle  Johnson, 

Vice  President. 
INIonroe  City,  Mo. 


To  create  a  congenial  feeling 
among  the  Avomen  of  our  great 
organization,  and  to  give  each  an 
oj)portunity  to  advance.  It  will 
also  give  us  prestige  among  our 
fellow-workmen  as  well  as  with 
our  customers.  An  incentive  to 
be  the  best. 

Eola  W.  White. 
Chairman,  Western  Section. 


As  members  of  the  P.  A.  of 
A.  we  feel  an  individual  respon- 
sibility in  being  co-workers  and 
contributors. 

We  do  not  consent  to  enjoy 
its  privileges  nor  accept  recogni- 


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19 


FROM  AN  ARISTO  PLATINO  PRINT 
By  Herman  Heyn  Omaha,  Xeb. 


20 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


tion  as  a  mere  courtesy.  Our  aim 
is  to  be  fit  and  capable,  and  we 
stand  on  our  own  merits. 

This  should  be  an  incentive  to 
every  woman  photographer  to 
keep  pace  with  the  progress  of 
our  profession,  hence  we  ask  the 
co-operation  of  all  earnest  women 
workers.  There  is  an  abundance 
of  good  material  to  be  enlisted. 
Katherixe  Jamieson, 
Chairman,  Middle  Section. 


The  benefit  each  one  of  us 
may  expect  to  derive  in  co-op- 
erating with  other  women  of  our 
profession  is  obvious,  as  we  can 
make  more  progress  by  inter- 
change of  work  and  thought. 

We  have  made  the  meml)er- 
shij>  fee  fifty  cents  for  the  year, 
to  cover  postage,  stationery, 
j)rinting,  or  incidental  expenses. 
This  amount  can  be  sent  to  me 
with  your  name  and  address. 
Also  kindly  state  whether  you 
wish  to  join  the  circle  or  simply 
become  a  member.  Shall  be 
most  glad  to  gi\  e  any  further  in- 
formation. M.EsTELLE  Jenkins, 
Sec.  and  Treas.  Women's  Federa- 
tion P.  A.  of  A.,  43-2  N.  Park  Ave., 
Austin  Sta.,  Chicago,  111. 


Yl^EDO 

^  '  A  man  remarked  to  one 
of  our  representatives,  "Your 
Company  is  talking  a  whole  lot 
about  tested  chemicals;  do  you 
really  test  them  or  is  that  just  a 
talking  point  f  " 


This  remark  demonstrated  that 
we  had  at  least  set  the  man  to 
thinking,  even  if  not  very  deeply. 

We  admit  in  all  frankness  that 
we  make  every  effort  to  produce 
or  procure  the  very  best  chemi- 
cals to  be  had,  primarily  for  our 
own  interests. 

We  do  test  in  the  most  mod- 
ern and  scientific  manner  every 
chemical  that  we  use  or  sell — 
tre  have  to.  We  test  and  re-test, 
not  simply  because  Ave  can  ob- 
tain a  few  cents  more  per  ounce 
or  per  pound,  but  because  abso- 
lute purity  and  uniformity  of  the 
chemicals  we  use  are  necessary  if 
we  wish  to  keep  you  as  customers. 

We  supply  you  with  the  best 
there  is  in  plates  and  papers  — 
how  long  would  their  quality 
stand  against  comi)etition  if  we 
did  not  provide  you  with  the  best 
possible  chemicals  with  which  to 
bring  out  results? 

We  not  only  have  to  test  and 
re-test  to  provide  you  with  "right" 
chemicals,  but  we  have  to  make 
sure  that  you  rightly  see  the  ne- 
cessity for  using  them.  That  is 
why  we  so  often  call  your  atten- 
tion to  this  trade 
mark  and  why  we 
display  it  promi- 
nently on  every 
package  of  our 
chemical  prepar- 
ations. C.  K.  Tested  Chemicals 
are  for  our  mutual  protection. 


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L 


OOK    OUT    FOR    HIM 


In  purchasing  goods  or 
making  any  business  arrange- 
ments we  cannot  be  too  cautious 
in  assuring  ourselves  that  the  man 
with  whom  we  are  deahng  is  "on 
the  square"  or  representing  a 
reliable  house,  and  most  emphat- 
ically so,  in  cases  ,where  any  ad- 
vance payment  is  demanded. 

We  print  herewith  a  letter  from 
three  of  the  profession  in  New 
England  calling  attention  to  the 
alleged  shortcomings  of  a  man 
giving  the  name  of  J.  D.  Watson. 

October  1:2,  1909. 
Editor  Studio  Light, 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Dear  Sir: 

We  are  taking  the  liberty  to  ask 
you  to  notify  the  photographers 
through  your  valuable  magazine 
"Studio  Light,"  to  look  out  for  a  man 
giving  the  name  of  J.  D.  Watson. 

He  has  been  working  the  Folio 
game  on  the  photographers  in  New 
Hampshire  with  pretty  good  success. 
He  has  failed  in  every  instance  to 
supply  the  folios  as  agreed,  thus  mak- 
ing it  pretty  expensive. 

This  fellow  is  light  complexion, 
about  five  feet  ten  inches  tall  and 
weighs  about  165  pounds,  and  has 
sandy  mustache  cut  short. 

He  is  a  smooth  talking  chap  — 
look  out  for  him. 

We  who  have  had  the  experience. 
J.  M.  Stevexs,  Rochester,  N.  H. 
W.  H.  Jkxks,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
Edwa.  a.  Walcott,  Barton,  Vt. 


SEND  for  a  copy  of  our 
booklet  "  Enlarging," 
a  booklet  of  suggestion  for 
the  professional. 


73  EAD  the  ar- 

-*-  ^  tide  on  page 
four  over  again, 
and  then  take  ad- 
\'antafire  of  our 


Advertising' 
Cut  Service 


The  cut  for  this 
month  is  show^n  on 
the  following  page 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


THE    ONLY  CON- 
DI T I  O  x\ 

We  make  but  one  condi- 
tion in  our  offer  of  cuts  for 
the  use  of  photographers. 

It  is  obvious  that  tAvo 
photofjraphers  in  the  same 
town  would  not  care  to  use 
the  same  cut,  and  we  are 
therefore  obliged  to  limit 
this  offer  to  one  photogra- 
pher in  a  town.  It  will  be 
a  case  of  first  come  first 
served.  The  first  order 
from  a  city  will  be  promptly 
filled.  Succeeding  orders  (if 
any)  will  necessarily  be 
turned  down  and  the  re- 
mittance, of  course,  Mill  be 
returned.  It  is  also  obvious 
that  we  cannot,  on  account 
of  the  cost  of  the  drawings, 
furnish  any  large  variety  of 
cuts  at  the  nominal  prices 
quoted,  and  therefore  can 
offer  no  substitute  cut.  The 
thing  to  do  is  to  get  your 
order  in  Jirxt,  as  it  would  not 
be  fair  to  give  the  man  who 
happens  to  get  in  his  order 
early  one  month,  a  permanetit 
advantage ;  we  shall  book  no 
orders  in  advance.  They 
must  alwa3'S  sjiecify  the  num- 
ber of  cut  desired.  If  later 
on  it  develops  that  there  is 
a  great  enough  demand  for 
these  advertising  cuts  to  war- 
rant our  furnishing  a  larger 
variety,  we  shall  be  glad  to 

^««^-  C.  K.  Co.,  Ltd. 


Our  photographs  are 
more  than  good  photo- 
graphs—they are  true 
portraits,  bringing  out 
all  that's  best  in  charac- 
ter and  individuality. 


^lake  your  appoint- 
ments now  and  avoid 
the  holidav    rush. 


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and  white  platinum. 

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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


THE  SWIVEL 
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for  the  Rapid  Printing-  of 
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In  use,  it  is  fastened  directly  in  front  of  the  printing 
light  and  the  frame  may  be  swung  up  out  of  the  light 
for  loading,  and  tilted  at  any  angle  when  printing  from 
negatives  of  unequal  density.  Made  in  three  sizes,  8x8, 
10  X  10  and  11  x  14. 

The  Price 


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the  strength  and  purity  of 
your  chemicals  when  they 
are  tested  by  those  whose 
interest  continues  beyond 
the  sale  of  the  chemicals 
themselves. 

The  sign  of  continued 
interest : 


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To  get  the  long 
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The  paper  that  forgets  to  curl 


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AMiite  is  the  developin<jf  paper 
for  the  professional.  It  affords 
a  double  weight  ])aper  at  the  single 
weight  price,  yields  excjuisite  sepias 
when  redeveloped  —  and  the  prints 
lie  flat. 


Canadian 

Kodak  Co. 

Limited 

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There  is  profit  for  you 
in  enlargements  on 
Eastman  Bromide 
Paper 


"ENLARGING,  A  BOOKLET  OF  SUGGESTION 

FOR  THE  PROFESSIONAL," 
sent  gratis  to  professional  photographers  upon  request 


CANADIAN  KODAK  CO.,  Limited 
TORONTO,  CANADA 


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The 

Sky  Scraper  Camera 


For  Home  Portraits 

The  front  is  of  sufficient  size  to  accommodate  large  Portrait 
Lenses  and  studio  shutters,  and  is  extremclij  rigid. 
The  Bellows  has  ample  capacity. 
The  Camera  can  be  compactly  closed  and  is  easily  portable. 

For  Views 

Extreme  rising  and  falling    front,   moving  independently 
of  bellows. 

Greatest  range  of  movement  to  swing  back  and  side  swing. 

s  X  10  11  X  U 

20  inches  -25  incfies 

7x7  inches  8x8  inciics 


Bellows  Capacity 
Size  of  Lens  Board 


PRICE 
Including  carrying  case  and  one  double  plate  holder. 


8  X  10 


$4.5.00 


11x11. 


$60.00 


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A  Sure  Hit  for  Xmas  Trade 

THERE  is  money  in  novelties  and  we  show  you  a  halftone  re- 
production of  one  of  our  best.  And  at  that  the  illustration 
does  not  do  justice  to  describe  the  real  beauty  of  our  Prince 
of  Wales  Calendar.  It  is  made  in  two  colors,  Graj'  and  Brown,  for 
Cabinet  Square  Prints  only. 


We  have  not  the  space  to  describe  the  Prince  of  Wales  Calendar 
thoroughly,  so  will  ask  you  to  be  sure  and  have  your  travelling 
salesman  show  you  samples  of  both  colors.  You  cannot  make  a  mis- 
take in  stocking  this  style  as  it  will  make  a  sure  winner  with  the 
jmblic.  Show  these  in  your  window  and  get  some  of  the  Xmas  trade 
that  would  go  elsewhere  and  to  other  lines. 

Sample  of  one  color  mailed  on  receipt  of  six  3-cent  stamps. 

DESIGNED  AND  MANCfACTlRED  BY 


CANADIAN   CARD   CO. 


Toronto,  Canada 


Aristo  Motto 


'WJ^  believe  permanency  is  the 
*  *  Keystone  of  Photographic 
Success,  and  all  brands  of  paper 
bearing  our  Trade-mark  are  manu- 
factured on  this  principle.  We  hold 
our  consumer's  reputation  and  suc- 
cess identical  with  our  own.  We 
surround  both  with  every  safe- 
guard known  to  chemical  science 
and  our  own  experience." 


■llilllii 


J.  E.  Ralston 


Seattle,  Wash. 


T? 


ana  the  ^^RI^STO  :^7^Gi^:^ 


A  Magazine   of   Information    for   the   Profession 


new  serifs 
Vol.1  No.  10 


DECEMBER   1909 


OLD    SERIES 

No. 107 


THE  AWARDS,  PRO- 
FESSIONAL CLASS, 
1909  KODAK  ADVER- 
TISING CONTEST 

Our  contention  that  better  pic- 
tures for  advertising  purposes 
could  be  prodiutd  by  means  of 
photography  than  by  any  other 
artistic  method  has  been  still  fur- 
ther justified  by  the  result  of  the 
1909  Kodak  Advertising  Contest. 

It  is  gratifying  to  note  the  con- 
tinued interest  of  competitors  in 
former  contests,  and  also  the 
highly  artistic  work  submitted  bj" 
new-comers  in  the  field. 

We  extend  our  thanks  to  the 
profession  for  the  keen  interest 
exhibited  and  for  the  highly  suc- 
cessful results  achieved. 

The  jury  which  passed  on  the 
work  was  highly  competent,  con- 
sisting of  Mr.  Rudolf  Eicke- 
meyer,  of  Davis  &  Eickemeyer; 
Mr.  A.  F.  Bradley,  ex-president 
of  P.  A.  A.,  of  New  York;  Mr. 
Henry  D.  Wilson,  Advertising 
Manager  of  "Cosmopolitan"; 
Mr.  C.  C.  Vemam,  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Smith  &  Street  Pub- 
lications, and  Mr. Walter  R .  Hine, 
vice-president  and  general  man- 


ager of  Frank  Seaman  Incorpo- 
rated, one  of  the  largest,  if  not 
the  largest  advertising  agency  in 
the  United  Slates.  Mr.  Frank 
R.  Barrows,  ex-president  of  the 
P.  A.  of  A.,  M'as  announced  as 
one  of  the  judges,  but  was  una- 
voidablj^  detained,  Mr.  Bradley 
acting  in  his  place. 

Pictures  which  were  not  award- 
ed prizes  are  to  be  returned  to 
their  owners,  but  in  this  there 
will  he  a  slight  delay  as  we  wish 
to  go  carefully  through  them  for 
the  further  selection  of  pictures 
for  i^urchase.  During  the  winter 
we  shall  publish  in  booklet  form 
a  number  of  prints  from  among 
the  prize  winners,  sending  a  copy 
to  each  contestant,  and  at  that 
time  will  announce  the  terms  of 
our  1910  competition. 

The  prize  winners — Profes- 
sional Class: 

First  prize,  $500.00,  "William  She- 
well  Ellis,  Philadelphia. 

Second  prize,  $4-00. 00,  Percy  De 
Gaston,  Lincoln,  Neb. 

Third  prize,  $230.00,  Mrs.  Ger- 
trude Kasebier,  New  York  City. 

Fourth  prize,  $150.00,  Bruguiere 
&  Eisen,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Fifth  prize,  $100.00,  S.  H.  Lif- 
shey,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


TANK  POINTERS 
BYOXE  OKTHESTAFKOKTHE 
EASTMAN     SCHOOL    OF    PRO- 
FESSIONAL  PHOTOGRAPHY 

Before  taking  u\)  my  a\  ork  with 
the  Eastman  School  I  had  to 
th(  )roughlj'  famiharize  myself  with 
both  the  theory  and  practice  of 
tank  dcvelojHnentand  the  further 
I  pursued  my  investigations  the 
more  fully  I  became  convinced  of 
the  pi-acticabihty  of  the  Eastman 
Plate  Tank,  not  only  as  a  pro- 
ducer of  first  class  results  but 
from  the  standpoint  of  economy 
as  well — to  say  nothing  of  its  con- 
venience and  comfort. 

Not  long  ago  I  had  a  gentleman 
tell  me  that  he  had  purchased  a 
tank  l)ut  had  not  used  it,  as  he 
was  afraid  to  —  that  he  did  not 
have  sufficient  confidence  in  it  to 
entrust  his  regular  run  of  work 
to  it.  This  reminds  me  a  good 
deal  of  the  time  when  drj'  plates 
were  first  introduced,  and  how 
slow  the  photographers  were  to 
make  use  of  their  many  advan- 
tages—  you  don't  find  many  of 
the  profession  using  the  old  wet 
plate  to-day — and  soon  tray  de- 
velopment, exce])t  for  the  extra 
large  plates,  will  be  equally 
obsolete. 

Now  let  us  make  a  few  prac- 
tical comi)arisons  between  tank 
and  tray  development. 

You  go  into  your  dark  room 
with  a  dozen  or  so  of  plates  to 
develop.  You  mix  up  your  de- 
veloper and  place,  say  a  dozen 
plates  in  a  big  tray  and  pour  the 
developer  over  them.      In  j-our 


big  shallow  tray  a  good  proportion 
of  your  developer  is  exposed  to 
the  action  of  the  air,  and  in  a 
short  time  it  decomposes  and 
oxidizes — and  if  during  develop- 
ment you  remove  a  plate  for  ex- 
amination, it  will  acquire  density 
in  the  high  lights  even  more  rap- 
idly than  if  left  in  the  traj',  owing 
to  the  increased  action  of  the  oxy- 
gen in  the  air.  In  cases  where 
the  negative  under  examination 
hap]iens  to  be  a  trifle  under-ex- 
posed, say  a  girl  in  a  white  dress, 
what  do  you  do  the  moment  that 
Avhite  dress  begins  to  get  strong 
— j'ou  say,  "  I  dare  not  let  that 
go  any  further,  because  if  I  do 
there  Avill  be  no  detail  in  the  high 
lights,"  so  in  it  goes  into  the 
fixing  bath  and  when  you  remove 
it  you  find  you  are  without  detail 
in  the  shadows. 

That  demonstrates  one  great 
advantage  of  the  tank ;  but  a  very 
small  portion  of  the  developer  is 
exposed  to  the  action  of  the  air, 
it  has  but  little  chance  to  oxidize, 
and  at  the  end  of  the  half  hour's 
development  the  solution  will  be 
almost  as  colorless  as  when  first 
made  up,  and  further,  your  solu- 
tion being  more  dilute  than  that 
for  tray  development,  allows  the 
reducing  action  to  proceed  slowly 
and  equally,  building  up  the  de- 
tail in  the  shadows  ecpially  with 
the  development  of  the  stronger 
portions  of  your  negatives. 

Now  here  is  another  little  point 
I  Avant  to  impress  upon  some  of 
the  skeptical.    You  say,  I  live  in 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


iliiiiiiilifilfilfS^^^ 


f'"ii'r''ii!"'ir'jr'iA"iir  it  iK"'h  *  l"  iir  '„  (.  h 


'iy,[,i<ir'</nri/;. 


FROM  A  NEPERA  PRINT 


By  J.  E.  Ralston 


Senttle,  Wash. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


a  very  hot  or  very  cold  climate, 
and  while  the  people  in  the  more 
temperate  parts  of  the  country 
will  have  no  difficulty  in  main- 
taining the  proper  temperature 
of  the  developer,  how  can  I  do 
it  without  going  to  more  trouble 
than  it  is  worth? 

We  had  a  session  of  the  School 
in  El  Paso,  Texas,  ajid  the  ther- 
mometer registered  110  degrees. 
I  made  up  the  develojier  and 
placed  it  in  the  tank  with  the 
correct  temperature  of  ^5  de- 
grees ;  at  the  end  of  the  half  hour 
the  temperature  had  increased 
hut  three  degrees,  and  this  increase 
had  been  so  gradual  as  to  produce 
no  noticeable  difference  in  the  den- 
sitj^  of  the  i)lates.  In  a  very  cold 
climate,  it  is  still  easier,  you  can 
easily  bring  your  developer  uji  to 
the  correct  degree  by  adding 
warm  water,  and  as  soon  as  your 
plates  are  in  the  tank,  you  can 
remove  the  whole  business  to  a 
room  that  is  heated  to  a  normal 
temperature. 

The  best  way  I  can  explain 
why  the  temperature  of  the  solu- 
tion varies  so  slightly  when  sealed 
up  in  the  tank  during  develop- 
ment is  this:  my  mother,  and  I 
guess  most  everybody  else's 
mother,  has  put  up  fruit  and  pre- 
serves, cooked  them  boilmg  hot 
and  then  placed  them  in  Mason 
fruit  jars  and  sealed  them  up 
tight — and  I  have  more  than  once 
waited  all  day  and  half  the  night 
for  them  to  cool  off  enough  for 
me  to  get  a  taste. 


Now  a  word  as  to  the  economy 
of  tank  development.  I  have  fre- 
quently been  asked  "how  much 
more  develoi)er  do  you  use?  "  You 
do  not  use  any  more  developer  to 
develop  a  dozen  plates  in  the  tank 
than  you  do  when  using  a  tray. 
You  would  not  think  of  going 
into  jour  dark  room  to  develop 
two  or  three  plates,  as  you  fre- 
quentlj'  do,  Avithout  using  at  least 
one  ounce  of  your  sulphite  solu- 
ti<jn,  one  ounce  of  your  carl)onate 
solution,  and  one  ounce  of  your 
pyro  solution,  together  with  eight 
or  ten  ounces  of  water.  Now 
with  the  tank  we  use  exactly  the 
same  quantity  of  chemicals,  but 
instead  of  using  eight  or  ten 
ounces  of  water  we  use  sixtj'-four, 
and  we  can  develop  twelve  plates 
just  as  well  and  a  whole  lot  easier 
than  you  can  develop  the  two  or 
tln-ee. 

With  the  tank  you  can  develop 
sixteen  dozen  5x7  plates  with 
one  ounce  of  pyro.  That  sounds 
like  a  large  statement  but  here 
is  the  arithmetic:  according  to 
the  formula  used  with  the  tank, 
your  pyro  solution  is  made  one 
to  sixteen,  and  you  use  just  one 
ounce  of  this  stock  solution  for 
each  dozen  plates.  Looking  over 
my  note  book  I  find  this  question 
has  been  asked  a  good  many 
times :  "  Can  the  developer  be 
used  over  again  for  a  second  lot 
of  plates?"  I  will  state  that  it 
can,  but  in  such  cases  you  must 
be  sure  your  plates  are  all  fully 
timed  for  this  reason :    during  the 


-) 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


first  development  the  developer 
has  taken  up  sufficient  liromide 
of  silver  from  the  first  lot  devel- 
oped, to  act  as  a  restrainer,  just 
the  same  as  if  you  had  added 
bromide  to  your  develo{)er.  De- 
veloper is  cheap  enough,  how- 
ever, to  throw  it  away  after  each 
batch  of  plates  has  been 
developed. 

In  another  issue,  if  the  Editor 
permits,  I  Avill  avail  myself  of  the 
l)rivilege  and  take  up  some  other 
features  that  have  done  so  much 
to  jjopularize  the  Eastman  Plate 
Tank. 


G 


ETTING  AT  THE  MEN 


The  majority  of  the  fair 
sex  feel  perfectly  at  home  in  a 
studio  and  thoroughly  enj  oy  hav- 
ing their  pictures  taken,  but  with 
the  average  man  it  is  quite  a  dif- 
ferent proposition.  He  views  a 
visit  to  the  photographer  as  a 
cross  between  a  visit  to  the  dent- 
ist's and  the  lawyer's  as  a  de- 
fendant in  a  damage  suit.  Not 
that  he  has  no  vanity  in  his  make- 
up, for  he  has  his  full  share,  but 
because  he  in  most  cases  feels 
that  the  photograi)her  will  think 
his  having  his  picture  tfiken  is 
due  to  vanity,  and  is  disinclined 
to  reveal  his  supposed  weakness 
to  a  comparative  stranger. 

Or  again,  wifie  has  insisted  on 
his  portrait  being  made  and  wants 
to  have  him  specially  "  slicked 
up, "  and  dressed  in  the  garments 
he  has  reserved  for  state  occa- 


sions. Most  men  feel  mighty 
bored  and  uncomfortable  in  gar- 
ments they  do  not  feel  at  home 
in  and  will  put  off  donning  them 
whenever  possil)le.  If  he  is  com- 
pelled to  have  his  picture  taken 
under  these  conditions,  he  is 
rarely  satisfied  with  himself  or 
the  efforts  of  the  photograjjher 
and  leaves  the  studio  with  that 
"never  again"  feeling. 

We  used  to  know  a  photogra- 
pher who  thoroughly  understood 
this  side  of  the  average  man, 
yet  he  probably  photographed 
more  men  than  any  of  his  com- 
petitors. He  had  good  ground 
to  commence  with,  as  his  ac- 
quaintance with  the  men  in  his 
city  was  large.  He  believed  that 
if  he  could  get  the  men  into  his 
studio  and  show  them  how  easy 
it  was  to  have  their  picture  taken 
he  would  sooner  or  later  have 
them  for  customers.  Meeting  an 
acciuaintance  on  the  street  he 
would  casually  invite  him  to  drop 
into  the  studio  with  him  a  min- 
ute to  inspect  or  discuss  some- 
thing he  knew  the  man  was  inter- 
estedin;  having  finished  he 
would  innocently  suggest  a  tour 
of  the  studio  and  work  rooms 
just  to  see  how  the  "wheels  went 
around."  When  under  the  light 
he  would  explain  how  the  new 
fast  plates  and  high  grade  lenses 
had  greatly  reduced  the  time  of 
exposure,  how  he  used  no  head 
rests,  and  how  much  more  natu- 
ral the  pictures  were  when  his 
subject  just   dropped   in  in   his 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


ordinarj'  clothes,  oftentimes  ac- 
companying his  remarks  by  a 
practical  demonstration.  Cietting 
back  to  his  office  or  reception 
room  he  would  say  to  his  recep- 
tionist, "Miss  B ,  please  let 

me  have  one  or  two  of  those  pic- 
tures of  Mr.  C,"  taking  care  to 
select  some  one  the  man  was  ac- 
quainted with.  At  this  stage  of 
the  game  his  visitor  Avas  inter- 
ested, felt  quite  at  home  and  on 
the  "inside"  of  picture  taking. 
Many  an  order  was  booked  right 
then  and  there,  or  else  at  home 
that  evening  he  would  mention 
his  little  visit  to  the  studio  and 
his  wife  would  comi)lete  the  sug- 
gestion so  cleverly  introduced  by 
the  man  who  knew  his  men. 


THE  EASTMAN 
SCHOOL  OF  PRO- 
FESSIONAL PHOTOG- 
RAPHY FOR  1910 

We  have  yet  to  hear  an  ex- 
pression of  dissatisfaction  from 
any  one  of  the  thousands  of  the 
j)rofession  who  have  attended  any 
of  the  sessions  of  the  Eastman 
School  of  Professional  Photog- 
raphy. 

In  fact  so  unstinted  has  been 
the  praise  of  the  school  and  its 
methods  that  Ave  might  rest  con- 
tent with  the  plans  of  the  school 
as  heretofore  carried  out  and  be 
assured  of  a  big  attendance  at 
every  session  in  1910- 


But  there  is  no  standing  still 
with  us — the  good  enough  of  yes- 
terday goes  into  the  discard  of 
to-day  —  the  Eastman  School  of 
Professional  Photography  was  es- 
tablished with  definite  aims  and 
purposes,  and  to  live  up  to  its 
fundamental  principles  must  pro- 
gress. 

That  the  school  has  been  pro- 
ductive of  good  is  evident  to  you 
and  to  us — but  no  matter  how 
good  the  school  has  been  it  must 
be  still  better — must  present  the 
latest  and  best  in  processes  and 
all  that  goes  to  make  up  success- 
ful photography  in  order  to  insure 
your  attendance  when  the  school 
is  again  in  session  in  your  terri- 
tory. 

The  1910  School  will  be  con- 
ducted along  Unes  that  will  in- 
sure the  greatest  possible  interest 
and  enthusiasm;  not  only  in  in- 
struction in  new  and  better 
methods,  but  in  simple  and  more 
effective  methods  of  instruction 
in  the  features  retained  from  last 
year  s  school. 

The  full  sc()i)e  and  ])rogram  of 
the  school  A\ill  be  announced  in 
an  early  issue. 


^) 


PURITY 

STRENGTH 

U  X  I  F  O  R  INI  I  T  Y 


Kodak  Tested  Chemicals 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE 


FROM  A  NEPERA  PRINT 


By  J.  E.  Ralston 


Seattle,  Wash. 


10 


STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


A 


N    OPPORTUNITY 


"  Pretty  snappy  morning 
for  October,  Mr.  Johnson  — we 
got  pretty  well  chilled  driving 
over,  but  I  just  had  to  have  my 
picture  taken  as  I  couldn't  very 
well  leave  again  between  now  and 
Christmas.  Mrs.  Thompson  and 
Mrs.  Jackson  Avere  saying  to  me 
yesterday  that  they  ought  to  have 
some  pictures  taken  too,  only  it 
was  so  far  to  come ;  Avish  you  had 
a  branch  studio  over  in  our  little 
town,  there  is  a  lot  of  business 
to  be  picked  up  and  the  rent 
wouldn't  amount  to  hardly  any- 
thing." 

In  a  good  many  parts  of  this 
great  big  country  there  are  small 
towns  that  would  Avell  support  a 
branch  studio.  A  good  many 
studio  proprietors  have  been 
quick  to  see  this  branch  studio 
proposition  and  their  one  or  more 
branches  are  coining  good  money. 
One  or  perhaps  two  days  a  week, 
exposures  only  made  at  the  branch 
and  work  delivered  on  the  next 
trij)— just  an  assistant  to  do  the 
operating— mighty  little  expense 
for  a  good  deal  of  profit. 

Of  course  it  would  be  unhandy 
for  the  assistant  to  lug  a  portrait 
outfit  back  and  forth  with  him 
every  time  and  the  Centvn-y  Cam- 
era Di\ision  has  an  outfit  that 
seems  just  made  for  the  purpose— 
the  Century  Studio  Outfit  No.  4. 
The  camera  supplied  with  this 
outfit  is  most  compact  in  con- 
struction, made  of  mahogany  and 


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CENTURY  STUDIO   OUTFIT  NO.  4 

cherry,  and  assembled  in  the  best 
possible  manner.  Both  wood  and 
metal  work  si)lendidly  finished. 
Vertical  and  horizontal  swings  are 
provided,  also  the  exclusive  Cen- 
tury micrometer  focusing  device. 
The  caliinet  attachment  is  not 
automatic,  but  is  constructed  to 
take  the  regular  5x7  Century 
Curtain  Slide  Holder,  such  as  sup- 
phed  with  the  automatic  attach- 
ment. The  attachment  is  fitted 
with  a  ground  glass  screen  at  one 
end,  which,  after  focusing,  may 
be  moved  and  the  holder  placed 
in  position  for  the  exposure.  The 
plate  may  be  placed  in  the  holder 
either  vertically  or  horizontally, 
and  also  peniiits  of  making  two 
exposures  on  a  5  x  7  plate.  The 
attachment  is  made  of  mahogany, 
highly  pohshed,  and  fitted  with 


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the  regular  Century  Cur- 
tain Holder  in  ebonized 
finish.  The  plate  holder 
supplied  is  the  regular  8 
X  10  Century  Curtain 
Holder,  ebonized  and  fin- 
ished to  harmonize  with 
balance  of  outfit.  This 
holder  is  fitted  for  either 
8x10  or  5x7  plates.  The 
No.  4  Century  Stand  forms 
part  of  the  outfit.  This  stand  is  a 
most  substantial  piece  of  ajii^ara- 
tus.  It  is  raised  and  lowered  by 
means  of  a  device  entirelj^  new  in 
studio  apparatus  and  lodes  auto- 
matically at  any  desired  elevation. 
The  stand  rests  upon  three  rul)ber 
tired  casters,  and  equii)i)ed  with 
the  Century  Camera  Jack,  which, 
by  a  movement  of  the  foot,  ren- 
ders it  impossible  to  move  the  out- 
fit when  the  exposure  is  about  to  be 
made.  The  topiscovered with  felt, 
and  fitted  with  the  Century  Auto- 
matic Tilting  device.  The  stand 
is  made  of  hard  wood,  mahogany 
stained ,  all  metal  parts  enameled . 
A  plate  holder  rack  is  attached 
to  the  stand  in  a  convenient  posi- 
tion and  does  much  to  facilitate 
quickness  and  ease  in  operating. 
The  camera  has  a  focal  capacity 
of  22  inches  and  the  lens  board 
measures  9x9  inches.  The  price 
of  the  outfit  complete  is  only  forty- 
five  dollars.  Your  dealer  will  be 
glad  to  show  you  the  outfit. 


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GOOD   HEAVY    ONE 


When  it  comes  to  mount- 
ing prints  in  a  hurry  a  good  heavy 
roller  is  a  necessity  as  it  saves 
both  time  and  strength  —  the 
extra  weight  of  the  roller  forcing 
the  print  into  contact  with  the 
mount  when  the  mountant  is  at 
just  the  right  consistency  to  ad- 
here good  and  fast.  A  glance  at 
the  illustration  will  show  the  sub- 
stantial construction  of  the  East- 
man Double  Print  Roller. 

Both  of  the  eight  inch  rolls 
covered  with  first  quality  heavy 
white  rubber  and  hung  true  so 
both  rollers  are  at  all  times  in 
perfect  contact  with  the  print, 
A  solid  metal  handle,  heavily 
nickeled,  affords  a  strong  firm 
grip — and  the  weight,  a  full  five 
pounds,  provides  for  perfect  con- 
tact with  the  smallest  effort. 

The  price  of  the  No.  1  East- 
man Double  Print  Roller  is  three 
dollars. 


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A  SIMPLE  NEGATIVE 
DRYER 

A  correspondent  of  the  British 
Journal  of  Photography  suggests 
the  follo-sraig  method  for  drying 
negatives  over  night  in  damp 
weather : 

"At  this  damp  season  a  good 
way  to  ensure  your  negatives  be- 
ing dry  and  ready  by  the  first 
thing  in  the  mornmg  following 
development,  is  to  hang  on  wall 
a  wire  negative  rack  to  hold  24 
negatives  about  a  foot  above  a 
gas  bracket,  and  between  the 
two  suspend  from  the  rack  hori- 


zontally an  empty  platinum  can 
with  cover  on  and  a  hole  about 
the  size  of  a  penny,  cut  in  the 
middle  of  the  under  side  just 
over  the  burner.  By  leaving  a 
very  small  jet  of  gas  burning  all 
night  under  the  hole,  it  forms  a 
hot-air  chamber,  and  distributes 
heat  equally  the  length  of  the 
rack.  Of  course,  negatives  must 
be  wiped  surface-dry  with  a 
chamois  leather,  as  any  spots  of 
water  left  on  would  show. 

"If  center  of  can  above  the 
hole  heats  quicker  than  the  ends, 
a  small  flat  piece  of  tin  slipped 
in  over  the  hole  compensates  and 


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im!llil!!lll!l!(I!!Ii!i|i!i!iil|||||!||| 


'""liiliiliiiiiS 


FROM  A  NEPERA  PRINT 


By  J.  E.  Ralsioii 


Seattle,  Wash. 


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distributes  it  better;  one  can 
soon  regulate  height  of  the 
flame  to  the  greatest  heat 
that  can  be  safely  used,  and  also 
the  time  wanted  to  dry." 


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EING  THE  LEADER 


BY    THE    OFFICE    BOY 

The  Boss  says  if  you  don't 
start  j'ou  don't  get  nowhere  —  an' 
that  gettin'  away  first  gives  you 
a  big  chance  of  breakin'  the  tape 
first  if  your  wind  holds  out.  Guess 
he  must  have  been  thinkin'  of 
foot  racin'.  I  ust  to  run  foot 
races  when  I  was  a  kid.  (I  aint 
a  kid  no  more,  commenct  shavin. 
las'  week  —  wisht  I'd  used  a  safe- 
ty.) The  Boss  says  some  one 
has  to  run  the  leadin'  studio  in 
his  town  an'  that  it  might  jus'  as 
well  be  him.  He  sure  has  got 
the  people  comin',  an'  it  looks 
as  though  he  was  doin'  it  easy, 
but  he  aint. 

The  Boss  says  you  got  to  give 
the  people  a  dollar's  worth  for 
their  dollar,  an'  make  'em  think 
they  are  gettin'  a  dollar  and  a 
half  s  worth.  Every  minute  he's 
busy — an'  he  covers  every  inch 
of  the  place  every  day  seein'  that 
things  is  going  right.  He  won't 
stand  for  me  slightin'  any  cor- 
ners when  I  sweep  out,  an'  he 
Avon't  stand  for  sloppy  mountin' 
or  uneven  prints  —  an'  every 
mornin'  he's  shined  and  slicked 
up  an'  all  the  rest  of  us  got  to 
be  too,  whether  we're  where  his 


customers  can  see  us  or  not.  The 
Boss  saj-s  if  he  keeps  us  slicked 
up  we  got  to  keep  the  whole 
place  slicked  up  so  we  won't  get 
mussed  by  bumpin'  into  some 
unslicked  up  place. 

Every  time  any  of  the  factory 
folks  says  they've  got  somethin' 
new  the  Boss  he  tries  it — gee 
but  the  demonstrators  have  it 
soft  with  him  —  an'  if  he  likes 
the  new  stuff  he  don't  saj', 
"(niess  I'll  try  that  out  nex' 
season"  —  Nix,  he  tries  it  out 
right  away  an'  before  any  of  the 
rest  of  the  bunch  in  the  t(nvn 
wakes  up  he  has  a  new  show 
case  display  an'  mos'  always  a 
ad  in  the  newspapers — aint  much 
dull  season  with  us. 

The  Boss  says  bein'  a  leader 
aint  no  snap,  but  it's  more  profit- 
able. 


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ENS  BUGS 


A  certain  dealer  in  pho- 
tographic materials  has  quite  a 
trade  in  anastigmat  lenses,  and 
is  frequently  the  recipient  of 
complaints  regarding  the  small 
air  bubbles  sometimes  found  in 
such  lenses.  Most  of  us,  of 
course,  are  fully  aware  that  these 
small  bubbles  in  no  way  detract 
from  the  value  or  cjuality  of  a 
lens,  and  are  a  guarantee  in  a 
way  of  genuine  Jena  glass  being 
used. 

The  other  day  Mr.  Dealer  had 
received  several  letters  regarding 


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air  bubbles  and  had  dictated  a 
like  niunl)er  of  letters  explaiiiinj; 
the  matter.  His  good  wife  is 
quite  an  amateur  gardener  and 
when  he  arrived  home  he  foinid 
her  struggling  with  the  problem 
of  how  to  annihilate  the  insect 
life  that  was  attacking  her  rose 
bushes.  The  t;wo  problems 
seemed  to  remain  uppermost  in 
his  mind,  as  after  he  had  fallen 
asleep  he  experienced  most  re- 
markable dreams,  and  eventually 
found  himself  awake  again  just 
as  he  was  exjjlaining  to  his  wife 
that  the  troul)le  with  her  rose 
bushes  was  due  to  lens  bugs. 

In  order  that  the  professional 
may  be  fiilly  informed  regard- 
ing these  small  air  bubbles,  we 
reprint  herewith  a  statement 
from  the  Bausch  &  Lonib  Opti- 
cal Co.  in  regard  to  the  matter, 
together  with  some  most  excel- 
lent advice  from  the  same  source 
regarding  the  care  of  lenses : 

"With  all  the  skill  and  care 
required  in  producing  clear  and 
homogeneous  optical  glass  it  is 
found  impossible  to  avoid  some 
small  air  bubbles. 

"All  such  glass  as  could  in  any 
way  prove  detrimental  for  opti- 
cal purjioses  is  rigidly  excluded 
from  use,  first  by  the  maker  and 
likewise  after  careful  tests  by  us, 
and  in  any  case  where  bubbles 
may  be  found  in  the  lenses, 
either  single  or  grouped,  they 
are  of  such  a  nature  that  the 
actual  loss  of  light  is  inappreciable, 
and  so  far  as  the  optical  quality 


of  the  image  formed  by  the  lens 
is  concerned,  the  presence  of 
these  small  bubbles  has  no  in- 
Jluence  whatsoever. 

"A  lens  should  remain  for  an 
indefinite  time  in  as  good  a  con- 
dition as  wlien  it  leaves  the  man- 
ufacturer's hands,  provided  a  few 
simple  rules  are  observed,  to 
which  we  draw  attention: 

"Protect  the  lens  as  much  as 
possible  from  dust  and  finger 
marks. 

"Do  not  subject  it  to  sudden 
and  extreme  temperature. 

"Do  not  expose  to  the  heat  of 
the  sun  or  steam  coils. 

"Avoid  damp  places. 

"Never  use  any  polishing  ma- 
terial, alcohol,  or  other  solvent 
on  the  lens. 

"Do  not  allow  it  to  fall  or  get 
a  sudden  jar, 

"Occasional  cleaning  is  not 
only  advisable,  but  also  very 
necessary  when  the  lenses  show 
dust,  finger  marks  or  moisture 
on  the  surfiices. 

"To  clean  use  a  well  washed 
linen  handkerchief  only. 

"If  dusty,  blow  off  the  dust 
first,  then  wijie. 

"To  remove  finger  marks  or 
moisture,  breathe  upon  the  sur- 
face, and  wipe;  always  wipe 
lightly,  and  with  a  circular  move- 
ment; a  camel's  hair  brush  is 
convenient  to  remove  dust  before 
cleaning,  and  afterward,  remove 
lint. 

"If  the  inner  surfaces  require 
cleaning,  the  utmost  care  should 


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illlliiilli! 


IHl' 
I  III 


FROM  A  NEPERA  PRINT 


By  J.  E.  Ralston 


Seattle,  Wash. 


the  ARISTO   EAGLE 


''illiijiiliilllll!!!!!''''''''''''*' 
i£i:i:f,'; 


Bv  J.  E.  Ralston 


Seattle,  Wash. 


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be  observed  to  remove  the  lenses 
one  by  one,  clean,  and  replace 
before  others  are  taken  out. 

"Should  the  lenses  or  mount- 
ing require  more  attention  than 
the  above,  do  not  entrust  the 
same  to  any  but  the  maker." 


H 


OT  SHOT 


O 


UR    ILLUSTRATIONS 


Through  the  courtesy  of 
J.  E.  Ralston,  of  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington, we  are  enabled  to  repro- 
duce some  of  the  latest  examples 
of  his  work  on  Nepera. 

Aecompanj'ing  the  prints  was 
the  following  expression : 

"If  giving  permission  to 
Studio  Light  to  publish  some 
of  my  prints  will  answer  as  a  cer- 
tificate of  character  to  my  good 
fi-iend,  Nepera,  I  certainly  will 
grant  it. 

"The  old  world  is  good  to  us 
now  and  Mrs.  Ralston  attributes 
it  to — as  she  calls  it — The  Happy 
Trio,  viz.,  Ralston  for  the  oper- 
ating room,  Seed  and  the  little 
Tank  for  the  dark-room,  while 
Nepera  has  full  charge  of  the 
printing  department. 

"  In  recommending  Seed '  and 
Nepera'  I'm  recognizing,  I 
think,  two  potent  factors  that 
have  contriliuted  so  much  toward 
our  higher  prices.  One  must  hit 
an  ingrate  that  can  only  see  him- 
self in  his  photograi)hic  success. 
Cordially  yours, 

J.    E.    R ALSTON." 


To  any  one  accustomed 
to  throwing  hot  shot  into  the 
comj)etitor's  camj),  Tai)rell, 
Loomis  &  Co.'s  new  fall  supple- 
ment is  a  delight.  Not  only  does 
the  catalogue  clearly  illustrate 
and  fully  describe  new  and  ahead 
of  the  minute  stuff,  but,  way 
ahead  of  the  stereotyped  idea  of 
a  catalogue,  this  one  affords  sell- 
ing plans  that  are  bound  to  suc- 
ceed if  thoughtfully  and  fully 
carried  out.  Some  of  the  plans 
demand  the  outlay  of  quite  a 
little  cash,  others  not  as  much 
as  j"ou  would  spend  in  ordinarj' 
publicity,  but  everyone  of  them 
a  winner. 

In  a  recent  issue  we  described 
their  new  show  card  plan,  it  is 
new,  timely  and  good  —  hundreds 
of  the  profession  have  taken  ad- 
vantage of  it  — have  you? 

Just  to  demonstrate  the  value 
of  this  new  catalogue  to  you  we 
reprint  here  two  of  its  pages, 
sho^\dng  two  splendid  ideas  for 
more  and  better  business. 

Sfnrlio  Adverilshifi  Albums  oflFer 
the  live  photographer  an  opportun- 
ity of  bringing  his  photographs  to 
the  rJirecf  attention  of  the  best  of 
the  pit-tiire-loving  and  picture-buy- 
ing public  with  the  almost  certain 
increase  of  business,  prices  and  rep- 
utation as  a  first-class  maker  of  por- 
traits. It  does  not  make  any  dif- 
ference how  large  or  small  a  city 
you  are  in,  Studio  Adverlmug  Al- 
bums will  be  your  best  advance 
agent,  your  special  solicitor,  your 
silent  but  tireless  employe.  Studio 
Advertising  Albums  are  made  with 


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ten  leaves  11x16  inches,  cloth  cov- 
ered covers  with  tissue  separators 
between  the  leaves.  You  will  notice 
they  are  made  with  ^rey  covers  and 
grey  leaves  for  black  and  white 
prints  in  No.  1,  and  brown  covers 
and  brown  leaves  lor  sepia  prints  in 


reach,  stating  you  will  call  for  it  in 
a  day  or  two.  Do  yoit.  see  the  point  '■ 
Do  you  see  what  a  boom  the  con- 
stant use  of  a  dozen  or  two  of  these 
albiiins  will  give  your  business?  By 
watc-hing  the  marriage,  birth  and 
society  notices  in  the  local  columns 


STUDIO  ADVERTISING  ALBUM 


No.  2,  and  black  covers  and  grey 
and  brown  leaves  in  No.  3.  This 
lust  album  for  miscellaneous  styles, 
including  heart/  or  solid  mounted 
prints  in  different  sizes,  and  prints 
unmounted  and  on  flexible  cards. 

THE  SCHEME 

You  must  have  at  least  a  half 
dozen  to  a  dozen  of  these  albinns  in 
your  studio,  filled  in  part  or  entirely 
with  specimen  prints  of  your  skill. 
In  your  spare  moments  you  write  a 
neat  business  letter  to  prominent 
people  in  your  city,  to  strangers 
visiting  your  city,  and  request  a  sit- 
ting, and  with  it  send  one  of  these 
albums  by  special  messenger  to  the 
lady   or    gentleman    you   want    to 


of  your  papers  you  can  keep  before 
your  public  the  fart  of  phofoyraphs 
belter  than  you  can,  by  any  other 
method.  We  just  give  you  the  out- 
line, only  it  can  be  handled  in  a 
hundred  and  one  different  ways  and 
don't  forget  it  can  be  worked  with 
as  proportionate  telling  effect  in  the 
small  town  as  the  large  city,  by  the 
man  who  makes  solid  mounted  styles 
in  black  and  white  tones  as  by  the 
man  who  makes  pictures  on  flexible 
cards  only  in  sepia  and  black  and 
white.  Write  us  about  them  and  ask 
the  dealer. 

Remember  you  can  loasfe  ten  times 
the  price  of  a  dozen  of  these  albums 
in  newspaper  advertising  and 
printer's  ink  without  one-eighth  of 
the  good  results.     WHY?    Because 


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they  shmn  what  y OH.  hai'e  for  sale  &nd      some  leather  finished  portfolio  that 
the  others  do  not.  is  in  a  class  by  itself.  Each  portfolio 


THE  STEFFENS  PORTFOLIO 


Sa.mpi.k  Specimen  Letter  to  Send 
WITH  Album 

Dear  Sir: 

I  take  pleasure  in  sending:  you  here- 
with, by  special  messenger,  an  album  con- 
taining a  few  specimens  of  my  work, 
which  I  trust  will  interest  you  as  a  lover  of 
pictures.  I  shall  be  glad  of  an  opportun- 
ity to  have  you  sit  for  a  portrait  at  my 
studio,  and  feel  positive  that  you  will  be 
pleased  with  my  etforts. 

My  messenger  will  call  for  the  album  in 
a  day  or  two,  and  thanking  you  in  advance 
for  the  care  given  it,  I  am. 

Respectfully  yours. 

Name. 

The  Sleffens  Portfolio  can  hardly 
be  described  on  paper  and  with 
mere  words  —  it  is  different,  original 

—  a  new  idea;  it  gives   yon  a  style 

—  in  a  dozen  lot — put  up  in  a  hand- 


is  a  flexible  brown  or  grey  leather 
finish  portfolio,  containing  one  dozen 
flexible  deckled  mounts  with  no  im- 
print or  plate  mark  except  a  fine 
line  round  the  edge  which  is  deckled 
all  round.  A  piece  of  fine  silk  tissue 
is  attached  neatly  to  each  card  as  a 
protector  to  the  print,  and  the  whole 
dozen  cards  are  enclosed  in  the 
leather  finished  cover  which  is  a 
portfolio  and  cover  combined.  You 
can  use  the  cards  as  they  are  for 
regular  or  odd  sized  prints  or  use  in- 
serts to  suit  your  taste. 

Sample  only  on  receipt  of  list  price. 
Prices  include  one  dozen  inserts  in  each 
folio.    ■ 

Take  the  most  expensive  grade 
you're  making  to-day,  subtract  the 


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price  of  the  dozen  cards  or  folders 
you're  using  from  the  pric-e  of  the 
Stejf'ens  Porl folio ,  and  it  costs  you 
no  more  and  will  bring  you  more 


money.  You  can  show  your  patrons 
that  ('•///(  the  photo  they  keep  they  have 
(he  best  possible  kind  of  flexible  album 
to  keep  it  in.     Insist  on  seeing  this. 


STUDIO  ADVERTISING  ALBUMS 


No. 

LEAVES 

1 

11x16 

2 

11x16 

3 

11x16 

DESCRIPTION 


Grey  covers  and  leaves  for  sheet  pictures,  in  black  and 
white  or  on  flexible  cards 

Brown  leaves,  brown  covers  for  sheet  pictures  in  sepia 
or  on  flexible  cards 

Black  covers,  grey  and  brown  leaves,  for  miscellaneous 
styles  on  heavy  cards,  folders  and  flexible  styles 


PRICE 
EACH 


$1.25 
1.25 
1.25 


STEFFENS  PORTFOLIOS 


No. 

COLOR 

FOR  PHOTOS 

SIZE  OUTSIDE 

EACH 

1-G 

Grey 

Cabt.  and  under 

6x9 

$  .90 

1-B 

Brown 

Cabt.  and  under 

6x9 

.90 

2-G 

Grey 

4x6  and  under 

7  X  10 

1.10 

2-B 

Brown 

4x6  and  under 

7  X  10 

1.10 

3-G 

Grev 

4x6  and  over 

8  X  1-2 

1.25 

3-B 

Brown 

4x6  and  over 

8x  12 

1.25 

4-G 

Grey 

5  X  7  to  8  X  10 

11  x  14 

1.70 

4-B 

Brown 

5  x  7  to  8  X  10 

11  x  14 

1.70 

Prices  include  the  dozen  cards  in  each  folio. 


rpHE  EASTMAN  Plate 
^    Tank  will  Save  Its  Cost 
twice  over  during  the  holi- 
day rush    ::         ::         ::         :: 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  n7id 


THE    ONLY  CON- 
DITION 

We  make  but  one  condi- 
tion in  our  offer  of  cuts  for 
the  use  of  photographers. 

It   is   obvious    that    two 
photograpliers   in   tlie    same 
town  would  not  care  to  use 
the  same  cut,    and    we   are 
therefore  obliged  to   limit 
this  offer  to  one   photogra- 
pher in  a  town.      It  will  be 
a   case    of   first    come    first 
served.      The    first    order 
from  a  city  will  be  promptly 
filled.   Succeeding  orders  (if 
any)    will    necessarily    be 
turned   down   and    the    re- 
mittance, of  course,  will  be 
returned.      It  is  also  obvious 
that  we  cannot,    on  account 
of  the  cost  of  the  drawings, 
funiish  any   large   variety   of 
cuts    at    the  nominal  prices 
quoted,    and    therefore   can 
offer  no  substitute  cut.    The 
thing  to  do   is  to  get  your 
order  injirst,  as  it  would  not 
be  fair  to  give  the  man  who 
happens  to  get  in  his  order 
early  one  month,  a  penmnieitt 
advantage;  we  shall  book  no 
orders  in    advance.      They 
must  always  specify  the  num- 
ber of  cut  desired.      If  later 
on  it  develops  that  there  is 
a  great  enough  demand  for 
these  advertising  cuts  to  war- 
rant our  furnishing  a  larger 
variety,  Ave  shall  be  glad  to 

do  so.         r,    T-    ^,        X     , 
C.  k.  Co.,  Ltd. 


PHOTOGRAPHY  is  an  art, 
—  or  not,  according  to  the 
aliility   of  the  photographer. 

An  artist  can  make  a  beauti- 
ful woman  more  beautiful,  can 
add  to  the  portrait,  lines  of 
graceful  composition,  charita- 
bly concealing  or  prettilj-  em- 
phasizing lights  and  shadows. 
Above  all,  he  strives  to  show 
those  lines  of  character  which 
often  transform  the  plainest 
faces. 

We  pride  ourselves 
that  ve  are  artists. 
May  we  prove  it  in 
our  work  for  you? 


Delivery  of  Christmas 
Orders  (xuaranteed 


The  Pyro  Studio 


No.  148.     Price,  50  cents. 


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Everything  to  suit  you  with  the 

EASTMAN 
PLATE  TANK 

No  prolonged  stay  in  a  cold  or  damp  dark 
room :  No  fogged  or  scratched  plates :  No  fishing 
the  plates  out  of  the  tank  during  development 
the  entire  tank  reverses:    No  guess  work— no 
bother — no  discomfort — perfect  results. 


Eastman   Plate  Tank,    5  x     7 
Eastman   Plate  Tank,    8  x  10 


$   4.50 
10.00 


CANADIAN  KODAK  CO.,  Limited, 

All  Dealers.  TORONTO,  CAN. 


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The  best  of  everything 
for  use  in  the  Studio 


A  complete  line  of 

Canadian  Kodak  Co. 's 
Plates,  Papers  and 
Tested  Chemicals. 

Canadian  Card  Co.'s 
Mounts 

Century  Studio  Ap- 
paratus. 


The  D.  H.  Hogg  Company 

MONTREAL,  CANADA 


the  ARISTO  EAGLE  25 

The  slight  tinge  of  warmth  in 

EASTMAN 


PLATINUM 

adds  a  life  and  charm  to  portraits 
utterly  impossible  with  the  cold 
steely  blacks  of  the  ordinary  black 
and  white  platinum. 

Two  Grades:  Smooth  and  Rough 


Eastman  Kodak  Company 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 


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Canadian  Made  for  the 
Canadian  Professional 


Seed,  Royal  and  Stanley 
Plates 

Canadian  Card  Co.'s 
Mounts 

Canadian  Kodak  Co.'s 
Tested  Chemicals 

Canadian  Made  Papers 


J.  G.  Ramsey  k  Co.,  limited 

Toronto,  Canada 


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You  can  only  be  sure  of 
the  strength  and  purity  of 
your  chemicals  when  they 
are  tested  by  those  whose 
interest  continues  beyond 
the  sale  of  the  chemicals 
themselves. 

The  sig-n  of  continued 
interest : 


28  STUDIO    LIGHT  and 

To  get  the  long 
price,  use 

ANGELO 

The  sepia  platinum  that 

wins  wherever 

shown 


CANADIAN  KODAK  CO. 

Limited 
Toronto,  Canada 


/A^-ARISTO  EAGLE  29 


ROYAL 

NEPERA 


EITHER  India  Tint  or  Pure 
\Miite  is  ///('  developing  paper 
for  the  professional.  It  affords 
a  double  weight  paper  at  the  single 
weight  ])rice,  yields  exquisite  sepias 
when  redeveloped  —  and  the  prints 
lie  fiat. 


Canadian 
Kodak  Co. 

Limited 


Toronto,  Canada 


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STUDIO   LIGHT  and 


There  is  profit  for  you 
in  enlargements  on 
Eastman  Bromide 
Paper 


"ENLARGING,  A  BOOKLET  OF  SUGGESTION 

FOR  THE  PROFESSIONAL," 
sent  gratis  to  professional  photographers  upon  request 


CANADIAN  KODAK  CO.,  Limited 
TORONTO,  CANADA 


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A/rOST  of  the  trouble  you  have  been 
having  in  securing  good  negatives 
of  babies  can  be  avoided  by  using  the 
Century  Baby  Holder. 


It  is  quickly  jind  easily  adjustable,   has  no 
frail  parts  to  get  out  of  order,  and  is  the  safest 
and  most  effective  baby  holder  on  the  market. 
Price       -         -         -         -       $5.00 


Century  Camera  Division 

East  111  an  Kodak  Company 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 


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STUDIO   LIGHT   and 


A  Sure  Hit  for  Xmas  Trade 

THERE  is  money  in  novelties  and  we  show  you  a  halftone  re- 
production of  one  of  our  best.  And  at  that  the  illustration 
does  not  do  justice  to  describe  the  real  beauty  of  our  Prince 
of  Wales  Calendar.  It  is  made  in  two  colors.  Gray  and  Brown,  for 
Cabinet  Square  Prints  only. 


We  have  not  the  space  to  describe  the  Prince  of  Wales  Calendar 
thoroughly,  so  will  ask  you  to  be  sure  and  have  your  travelling 
salesman  show  you  samples  of  both  colors.  You  cannot  make  a  mis- 
take in  stocking  this  style  as  it  will  make  a  sure  winner  with  the 
public.  Show  these  in  your  window  and  get  some  of  the  Xmas  trade 
that  would  go  elsewhere  and  to  other  lines. 

Sample  of  one  color  mailed  on  receipt  of  six  2-cent  stamps. 

DESIGNED  AND  MANIFACTIRED  BY 


CANADIAN  CARD   CO. 


Toronto.  Canada