J.A. Whipple
1860
Brochure for John A. Whipple, photographic & daguereotype rooms, No. 96 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.

Brochure
3 3/4 x 2 1/2 ins
 
Historic New England
Ephemera collection, EP001, GUSN 265631
 
Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891 (Photographer)
 
PHOTOGRAPH:
 
Its meaning is, Light-Printing; embracing all Pictures made by the Chemical Agency of Light and the Camera Obscura.
 
It is now more especially used to designate those pictures made upon paper. It embraces the Daguerreotype, the Ambrotype, the Chrystalotype, and all the various “types” known to our profession.
 
The Photographic process on paper was imperfectly known before the Daguerreotype was discovered; but it was of little practical use.
 
The Discovery of the Daguerreotype took the world by surprise, and made a complete revolution in the art of picture making. The knowledge of it rapidly spread, and its general application is unprecedented in the annals of new discoveries. It has been one of the greatest blessings to mankind, and contributed more to our enjoyment and comfort than can readily be imagined—preserving perfectly the face and form of those loved ones gone before, and placing in our hands the means of representing them as in life.
 
The Photograph, as now perfected, is wonderful. From the smallest Daguerreotype, can be made Photographs life-size; colored in oil, rivaling in beauty the finest paintings; or finished in crayons, surpassing them in truthfulness.
 
Engravings copied, representing line for line; the beautiful things produced by the life-long labors of the world’s greatest minds, duplicated in a few moments, and the ends of the earth brought to our doors.
 < THE DAGUERREOTYPE is made upon copper, plated with silver, on the pure metallic silver surface. The plate is first brightly polished, exposed in the dark to the vapors of Iodine and Bromine; then exposed to the image of the Camera Obscura: the latent image here received is brought to light by placing the plate over heated mercury or quicksilver. In a moment there stands the Picture, revealed in all its beauty.
 
THE AMBROTYPE. The latent image of the Camera is received on glass coated with collodion, instead of upon the silver plate, as in the Daguerreotype. They are therefore not only liable to break, but the collodion film that holds the picture to cleave from the surface of the glass upon which they are taken.
 
THE PHOTOGRAPH. The latent impression is also first received upon glass from the Camera, in the collodion coating, and there developed or brought to light by means of chemical reagents, forming a negative picture, from which thousands of impressions can be made on paper, by the chemical agency of light, all duplicates one of another; thus enabling us to reproduce Nature in miniature, in all her various forms.
 
THE STENOGRAPH. Miniature Photographs, two of the same object, taken in slightly different positions, when viewed through the Stereoscope, giving wonderful effect of relief.
 
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