The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-22
Nineteenth Century Achievements Photography

When I prophesied the time would when only
illustrations to books would be printed but and costly
volumes would be reproduced entirely by the aid pho
Biography and that party would into establish
a morning sit photograph leave an order
for five hundred impressions ready for him upon his
from business my friends those the art
thought such talk only natural outcome of visionary
impractical
not many years back when I saw at Harper's a
large filed with artists and engraversprincipally
the latereertainly not less than fifty and
cutting blocks of lockwood which We're when fin
ished to illustrate their popular weekly and monthly publ
cations. question if there engraving room"
their premises completely has the of photography
supplanted the old, slow, inaccurate wood
Here the followers of Ruskn will excam: Yes
acy has come art has departed 1t sounds euphonous
but it is true
Nothing has so developed are photography. has
failarized the world with beauty and exacted from those
who handle brush pencil and engraving tools close fidelity
to human and physical nature.
AS to first prophecy not only books, but in sense
whole libraries have been reproduced When Henry G.
ALE nbefore the of international copyright brought
republication Of the Encyclopedia Britannica was
necessarily errors-that
require almost as skilled men in all the realms of science
and literature to read the proofs accurately write the
original articles They confused be told that
the whole book been reproduced Photographic
art Not touch of an engraver not lifted! And
illustrations of which entirely the of the
and mechanical appliances. has the
veousy and thus become the greatest educator have
number of r.chidren familiar
with of interest in all of the world
VINO travel 1t brings to them noted people, objects OF his
toric value and records School children will
identify of the Coliseum of Rome quickly
the Aquarium the Battery All great
of the in Cuba have been recorded
the Philippines will be familiar
country
realm science countless stars dis
covered and today by superby organized series of OBJ
servatores in various of the globe complete
OF the heavens is being made Many thousands of in
visible to the with the powerful telescopes have
been discovered and recorded by the exqusey sensitive
Photographic plate.
The invention discovery of DR.. H G. Pifards flash
light by which instantaneous pictures be at
night is Of the interesting devices Of latter day
photography 1t possibilities to the professional
and amateur photographer that well be
velous The obtained compound rather
than apparatus. The compound can be loaded init
pistol and while 1t is dischargng picture be made by
its flash This has absolutely been done The night
gloomiest will be obstacle the finding
phoographng the spot criminals suspected per-
The Of magnesium for this purpose is new but
practicable than formerly for the already
given think it is about eighteen years that
instructions photographer to make series of
magnesium light in the Catacombs of Rome be
Illustration a book then preparation by
Robert s. Rowland I satisfac-
of seeing excellent prints made from the plates.