Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-09-08
PhotQgrapl,s.
ho" THY ORIGINATED AND HOW THE OLD ONES
LOOK 10 The MODERN syES


look 10 tbs MODERN YyKS
tChicaso Inter. OCEAN
Iofts years ago the dim likeness OF hu-
MAJ. Iace, myster1ously fixed upon A plate OF
FURNISHED silver by a process OF which fhe
MAKERS themselves understood very little and
V.l was a similar wonderment To the world
S;enii,o WAS lsSsed nom hand 10 band as
a.ientlIc curiosity. one OF the early attempts
~ constructing an apparatus that Would
yea picture by the efect OF sunlight was
a cunning worker In silver Damei Moot.
worth, who was employed IA the old Arnes
hiahoiactory at ChicopCe. Mass. ard his own
lace was one or those upon which some or
,leo o"IIies. experiments We're made at that
pace. IL did not take long for the camera 10
assume substantially It's present shape. ana
Soon The "dCCatype. man" appeared wtth the
marvellous invention OF the Frenchman,
whose name IL bore, IN every country yillaCe'
lie took room In the tavern az first, and hung
ms samples in NcnerreS mahogany frame AT
me stieet door. Then followed the daguer-
iColy pc car, for the artist was still a perina-
.euc ore, who made HIS rounds Of half a dozen
toNns 10 the course or a year. But the process
Ne, Ne sCnie what eApenSive-a single picture IN
pain case usually cost about three dOllars-and
20 soileoody invented the "annhrotNpt~ which
toSl less Than half as much, aud MAS MOI nearly
nan rs GoVg. The impression was taken upan a
plselnltH lia'e OF glass instead Of silver. This
Nu we way 10 taking the Impression upon glass
solrepaftG as 10 bc TRANSPARENT. witch SSnld
t :" usIu IS " negative through which the
in ~, cU1.u pfecnce 10 end OF copies by fab
, ny Ch a prepared surface or paper or other ma
nt!al, tAus making tie modern .'pho,oCrAph.n
me great Invention was fully acnomnlIshes
o mleh me sec,et OF indenaite production vas
II does not take long for any sun picture n
fluM quaint and old-fash'oned. With what
~ IT. ttu,hiClness II preserves the oddities
res Ike hight in her antiduated habit
LIN. LOW strange her face looks in an this
o o,iIo solse. What man cannot ind now. laid
aNns hSnlEe Cid drawer OF table or bureau a
Gagutffeotype OF himself taken I'm the davs or
his youtm How distinctly he remembers how
the Hltle olal table stood beside him with rs
~ III IIaIs.Ner, and how he held the book
IN his hano ard how the .1ongs'' We're
pusheo agallS the back OF his mead and
Eo~ re was aIrNd 10 breathe or blink lest the
piaHe hlght r. spoiled, How. when he
went away nSn home, his mother coveted
that iittlc embossed case. with It's M held
ooVn 10y try brasshouk. wherein she could
d neaold her , own glrish eyes. grown bright
when the smiles or youh had not vel hardened
INTO wrinkles. and where tAe Ilneaments OF an
her boy S ancestors were sOurahow transformed
Into lines OF beauty In thatone image which lhe
could worship without charge OF idolatrvi
Distinctly enough lie Remembers now ne showed
the WOndrouS production 10 his sisters ana
listened 10 their comments on lhe looks OF hts
hair, and collar ana necklie, and Tow he wished
10 Lear, through them. or the Verdict which
that vast and influential body Of mankind
Known rs The girls" would pass unoa II: and
Ct as The Old fellow with gTiZZled beard aud
fald pate now looks through his glasses az the
beardlesS face which once belonged 10 him how
ineApreSsbly Immature and vealy II seems 10
Re. Ten 10 one be is ashamed OF f. ana declares
thai he never looked that way al all
16op!e who are accustomed 10 see the 'pho-
tCgraph album" In every house hardly realize
What Change is Indicated by that thick
leaved volume. In the Old time a few wealthy
families had pictures I'm OIL on canvas. and wan
Gellhg artists sometimes went through the
country and mace dubious portraits on bass
Woo boafGS Tor such as were willing to pay a
slight advance on the cost OF the lumber, and
Occasionally some eNtravagant gentleman had
miniature or TWO painted on ivory and set ina
Eo!d vine under glass, and the sllhoutte some
times preserved an accurate profile; but or not
che person in thousand was there any YeSticeo OF
likeness 10 show how he looked in life. A mans
enid ntedt q 10 be, Indeed The Every picture OF
It's father, for II was the Only one he ever had.
The results OF Photographic pc-Jralture are not
yet Old enough 10 POSSESS any great historic in
tereSt, but 1t opens curious field or specula-
lion 10 wonder What the people I'm the year 1889
VIII lhluk OF us, as taey look n our queer ell
gies which have been preserved In the closets OF
some antiquarian collection.