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Conquering the shadows. Before the electric flash, magnesium wire and powder provided the explosive, blinding light necessary to document the subterranean world, the Victorian parlor at night, and the gritty realities of 19th-century tenement life.

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Contents

Introduction
1Equipment for magnesium light
2Magnesium light in use
Early accounts
3Using magnesium light for photographic purposes (1864)
4Magnesium and the Magnesium Light (1868)
5Photographs taken with magnesium light
Photographers
6Charles Waldack, Proctor & O'Shaughnessy: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (1866)
7Dr. Mandeville Thum: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (ca 1876-1877)
8Ben Hains: Views of Mammoth Cave and vicinity (1889)
9J.C. Burrow: Mongst Mines and Miners; or Underground scenes by flash-light (1893)
Charles Piazzi Smyth: The Great Pyramid and the use of magnesium light (1865)
10Charles Piazzi Smyth: Use of magnesium light at the Great Pyramid (1865)
11Charles Piazzi Smyth: Photography, Magnesium, and the Pyramid (1865)
12Charles Piazzi Smyth: As soon as it was discovered that photography was possible by magnesium... (1865)

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