New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-30
PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES
Continued from yesterdays Tnbune'J

PHOTOGRAPH1 THB SAhAb''
Continued from yesterdays Tribune
THE moon DAGUERREoTYPED.
But great asare the claims of Photography on our notice.
from the unswervng minueness with which it acts, has
still more exalted demands attention from ts unS
in advancing the Of knowledge in its most suoe
and difficult paths Those whose admiration OF the an L
terminated with the expression of JOY and surprise " '
wonderful fidelity of the portrait of some cherished ren
are probably unprepared to learn that the cause oil
nv has been advanced by the agency OF the same sPe
means Yet such is the fact as the following Tan'iauon
from foreign paper will show;
Dr Bond of Harvard University thought that although
were impossibe TO render the mOOn-so pale ana rS'
more luminous he could make the feeble gi sue p1o
sesses useful for photography, If he could make
camera obscura of the magnificent telescope" nc no.
~ h;s DISMISSAL The object glass of the telescope Is ID
inches in diameter, and the image OF an 0ect oi ne a..
liz cus is % times more brilliant than the image Vi nc
same object reproduced by lens OF three hches ,
Rid nsced at of odised silver in the dark tube oil the
eescdpe so that the sensible surface of tins plate CORES
nonded 70 the focus of the great achromatc OBJECT
nd he causad the telescope thus prepared 10 Hollow e
movement of the moon in space by means ol QUE y.
;rgenious mechanisms that employed Tor ths enCt ~
observatories The result was yerltable triumph no
eycellent proofs reproducing the least deutis " t
ddr+ad az the last meeting of the ERgtish Assocd-
t;ou for the progress OF science. Inc most interesting
rt Of nortrait of the in profile we can say so VI
the dimensions nearly OF han doilr Plece d
f The moon was chosen because the elongated shdo"9
Not nroect from the inequalities of the surface are seen
most adyantageously When we look at the lunar dlhCo
phere half in light and half IN shade the sun sGo VI
transverse direction 10 that in which we are looking IpI
eyamne when we have this hemisphere lace 10 lace me
snn strikes il from right to left and the shadows are Tea
out in all their extent before our eyes ana nov ll &
ore these shadows observed with telescope III certain CIR
crmstances Frnges of darkness casting themselves on
behind the peaks and submits OF silver rouhIcu waves W
shadow filling up cavities IN the FORM VI noloW Guy? -
ss in the midst of this strange surface trangeS Oh JET
sbot;no forth ike ws from under luminous spots Drilt
AZ dianonds-ths is what the telescope dlSpyed In las
photographic image produced by ~ Donl' an eSe nc
tals are revealed To the eye Everything here Is so con"
etev and so faithfully reproduced that by the al OF
Inagnifyng glass perceive new objects minute DETAILS
that had escaped the sight The revelations oil me micro
Gene in this proof are numerous as the reve
Iatons of the telescope in the itself 1t - probable
that when the most sensible phOogenc surces nave been
fund and we can employ object glasses large As the
GREAT reflector of Harvard University some proofs repre-
sentinp groups of stars be obtained Dr. BOND mas al
ready succeeded in producing even on plate OF odsed
silver dstrct image of the two constituents OF le sr
Ester II is impossible to calculate the services that pho
tooranhv is called render to astronomy Photographic
charts Of the frequently renewed would certainly eve
TO astronomers the of discovering all the bodies
wandering space and yet unknown and we do not douo
that the number of them may be considerable and worthy
of serious attention. when remember that tAe NUMBER
of the planets has grown from to 80 IA the space oil SIX
years"
Our space forbds our enumerang many other of the
anpances of this art which suggest themselves-bu the
one ouoted will of itself suffice to show that the use TO
which II is most generally devoted is by no means the sole
or the most valuable for which it offers itself And though
il brought in this City to great perfection its admirers
beeve that It's resources and but very mperecy
deveoped-hatit may be looked upon, indeed as IN ITS In
fancy
TIE DAGUERREAN GALLERIES OF NEWBORN
The Daguerrean Galleries of this City are among the prl
mary objects of interest to visitors and the collections here
ncomparaby superior any to be found in
European Metropolis without exception. Many of them,
too are adorned with portraits of the most eminent of
citizens statesmen iurst soldiers physicians and men OF
letters whilst in Others fac Smiles of welknown scenes
are TO be found Among many first rate artists as are es
tablshed in this City, would be nvidous to mention one
or two to the exclusion of the restt WILL therefore suf-
fee 10 saw that the Great Exhibition OF sjl three
dls of the first class were awarded to many American
councillors whose superiority in that friendly struggle
ncontesable in this department Indeed with the excep
on Of Caudet whose valuable discoveries than his
artistic excellence procured him the award of Council
Medal our artists not only superior but on the whole
unapproachabe whether from the competition of English,
Fencb or German The reason of this may be found the
greater cheapness of Daguerreoype pictures here
those of Europe caused equally by the more universal de
mand in this country and by the being held
in check by vexatous and costly patents (which we think
ougb never to have been granted the original idea having
been purchased for the cord by the French Governmen
which conne it within limited circle of practitioners and
those in all probability less lovers of the art than followers
of itasa means of livelihood, while here the number
poyed and their constant practice cause an improvement
either in the manipulation or in some chemical process to
he Of freoueut occurrence We may say, word that in
Eurone there are more learned works written and here the
hest pictures made there they speculate and experiment
while we work they unrivaled in theory we at the
highest present point of the art in practice though
freely admit that the rapid Improvement made has been
much aided by the chemical experiments of European phil
osOphers.
Few visitors TO these Galleries have any idea of the i'm
noance Of the trades and manufactures connected with the
Pho.o0raphc a-a few statistics will probably be found in
teresting.
In the cities of NewYork and Brooklyn, there are up
ward of 100 Daguerrean establishments giving direct
nIoyment to about $50 men, women and boys though
he number who derive support from the art in the United
States in all its branches is varously estimated from
$4,000 to 1900 including those working in the manuac
tories For years great proportion of Daguerreo
type goods were imported from Europe, principally from
France those made here being considered by operators as
much Inferior especially the plates great Improvement
has however late taken place in production of these
articles and will be by the number of persons EN-
ployed as given above that this is quite important
branch of domestic industry there being in this City alone
six large establishments fer the making importation and sale
of Photographic goods the amount of cash invested being
about 100000 and the annual sale of materials
Iii estimated that there cannot be less than 100000
taken annually the United States Boston
Philadelphia and Baltimore being extensively engaged in
the trade but not equally with NewYork.
The interests of the science represented in the Press
by two publicatons-The photographic Art Journal
(monthy, and Humphreys Journal (semimOnhly having
Joint circulation of 5000 copies We learn that the editor
of the former AIr Sneng) has in press Electromagnetic
Photograp1cAr containing every kind of information at
all bearing on the subject of which he treats and from the
and ability displayed in his editorial capacity
LIZ. aro ertan that the hook will be inYaluahe 10 every