OTOGKAPH

WITH FULL
INSTRUCTIONS
H O W TO
MAKE IT.
BY PROF. TOWLER.
PRICE
: TWEXTY
FI1E CEXTS.
fi3
JOSEPH H. LADD,
PUBLISHER.
E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO.,
501 BROADWAY NEW YORK,
HAVE FOR SALE ALL THE MATERIALS FOR THE
MAGIC PHOTOGRAPHS
IN QUANTITIES TO SUIT PURCHASERS.
THE ALBUMENIZED PAPER
Of our Manufacture is a Superior Article and always Reliable.
THE LATEST NEW DISCOVERY,
By means of which the Fadivg of photographic prints is prevented,
PEROXIDE OF HYDROGEN,
With directions for use, in Bottles containing 4 and 8 ounces.
We woii^also call attention
TO OUR UNRIVALLED ASSORTMENT OF NEW STYLES OF
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From the Smallest Dimensions to Life Size.
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ALBUMEN
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who want the best
Albumen
Paper in the
WORLD,
should
order
the
Celebrated
SWISS
ALBUMEN
PAPER
for which we are Sole
Agents for this country.
This
Paper
can be used
with
Half the
Silver
and
Chloride
of
Gold
required in the use of any
other
Paper.
We are
selling
large
quantities
of
Collodion
without Bromine
; also a new and
improved
PRINTING
FRAME
FOR
OPAL
PICTURES,
the price of which is less than any other in the market,
and those
who have
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preference
over all others.
We manu-
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to be the BEST
in use.
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!
!
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READ ! READ ! ! The British Journal
of
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"
The most popular
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Baths. Prices : Dishes.
No. 1,
1-4 size $0 60 No. 1, 5 x V size $0 45
"
2,
1-2
1 00 "
2, 7x9
"
0 65
"
3, 4 4
"
2 00 "
3, 8x10" 0 85
"
4, 9x11 size 4 00 "
4,10x12" 135
"
5, 11 x 15
"
7 50 "
5, 12 x 16
"
2 25
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PHOTOGRAPHIC ALMANAC FOR 1866. Price, 50 cents.
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;
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0
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THE
MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH;
WITH FULL DIRECTIONS
AND
FORMULAS FOll MAKING IT.
BY
JOHN TOILER, M.D.,
professor of chemistry, natural philosophy, and mathe-
matics in hobart college; author of
m
the silver
sunbeam,"
"
the porcelain picture," and
editor of
"
Humphrey's journal
OF photography," etc.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 18CC, by
JOSEPH H. LADD,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
NEW YORK:
JOSEPH H. LADD, PUBLISHER, No. GOO BROADWAY.
18GG
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HUMPHREY'S JOUEXAX" PRINT.
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SPECIALTIES, JUNE, 1866.
LATE IMPORTATIONS.
A large assortment of the Genuine B. P. C. Glass ; Chance's Celebrated Crystal Sheet.
A 16 oz. ; Porcelain Baths, Stands, Dippers and Trays, 4 x 5 to 19 x 24.
A superior lot of English Hypo. Sulp. Soda in barrels and half barrels, on which we
are prepared to offer the Trade special inducements.
SCOVILL'S EXCELSIOR ROLLER PRESSES.
5 Inch $15.50 I 10 Inch $22.50
6 Inch -. 16 50
|
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working, together with EVENESS of PRESSURE.
FOR THE PORCELAIN PICTURE.
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flat, and can be cut with the same facility as ordinary plate glass. In sizes from 2 x
2
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Passepartouts for Porcelain Pictures. Silk and Cotton Velvet Passepartouts for Porce-
lain Pictures. Porcelain Picture Frames, etc., etc. Turkey Morocco and Oval Velvet
Cases.
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Eight feet wide. A superior article made of Woolen Cloth of different shades ; can be
washed the same as flannels. The best and cheapest yet introduced. Samples sent upon
application.
LATEST PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLICATIONS.
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THE SILVER SUNBEAM. Fifth Edition. THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH. THE
PORCELAIN PICTURE. DRY PLATE PHOTOGRAPHY. AMERICAN PHO-
TOGRAPHIC ALMANAC FOR 1866. NEWMAN'S MANUAL OF HARMONIOUS
COLORING. WALDACK'S NEW TREATISE. Fourth Edition. PHOTOGRA-
PHIC MOSAICS. Second Thousand.
Gale's Solar Camera. A New Article.
A complete Assortment of C. C. Harrison's Portrait Tubes ; C. C. Har-
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Manufacturers and Importers of and Dealers in all Articles per-
taining: to I*hotogrraphy.
SAMUEL HOLMES,
AGENT.
THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH
;
OR,
HOW INSTANTANEOUSLY TO PRODUCE A PHO-
TOGRAPH ON PAPER.
Another photographic plaything is hefore us, which,
from all appearance, will be in great demand for a while.
It can be made very amusing for children, and for all
others of a more advanced age, who are not above being
what they have once been, when fictions pleased them
more than realities.
A very estimable and intellectual lady, the head of an
establishment where our sisters and daughters are washed,
taught and prepared for spheres hereafter, called in the
aid of the chemist a few months back to instruct her in
the preparation of magic papers or leaves to be used by a
little witch or fortune-teller at an evening's entertainment
for the benefit of our sick soldiers.
The little sibyl, whose office it was to superintend this
branch of *the evening's recreations, was appropriately
donned in the habiliments of an enchantress
;
and her
6 THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH.
nook was a sylvan haunt constructed in the corner of a
room amidst roots, logs, snakes and ogres. Fiery eyes
were seen flashing scintillations through every avenue
amid the overhanging branches to give magic zest to the
retreat and to deter intruders. Within this dark abode,
at the entrance of a cave, sat the little sibyl, who had
only to look to lure
;
and many were the victims of that
night, beguiled of their mental composure, for months
afterwards by the incantations or spells of the sibyl's eyes.
Before her was a wicker-basket wound alternately with
green twigs, snakes and centipedes ; and this basket was
full of sibylline leaves, small pieces of paper perfectly
white and without stain. The sibyl sold these papers at
the rate of two shillings each, and so great became the
sale, that a little puck had to be generated among the
dentiform crevices to assist in the distribution. As soon
as the sibylline leaf was paid for, the tiny fingers of the
sylph dipped it in a ewer of water, the Fluid of Incanta-
tion. No sooner was this done than there started out upon
the leaf words distinct and legible, prophetic of the youth's
future ;
and the youth, not like us old codgers, long initi-
ated in the wiles and charms of sirens, was fain to believe
in the truth of the prophecythat there was an appropri-
ateness, a fitness, a probability in the prophetic leaf, the
fond creature could not help but believe ; hence his sleep-
THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH. 7
less nights and his dreamy days for months after this
event.
You would like to know how these magic leaves were
prepared ?
That is just what we expected.
Two liquids are required in the preparation of sibylline
leaves, one is the invisible ink with which the leaves are
written before they are deposited in that frightful basket,
and the other liquid, when the leaves are immersed in it,
colors the invisible ink and thus makes it quite legible.
Such inks are called sympathetic
;
there are several of
them.
The following two liquids produce, by their conjoint ac-
tion, blue letters :
Dissolve a grain or two of protosulphate of iron (green
vitriol, such as you use in your developer) in a drachm of
water
;
and with a perfectly clean pen write with this
solution on a piece of paper. When dry the writing will
be invisible. But now immerse the dried leaf in the fol-
lowing solution
:
Ferrocyanide of potassium (yel-
low prussiate of potash) - 1 drachm.
Water - - - - - 1 ounce.
As soon as the paper has been immersed in this solution,
THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH.
take it out and watch the letters and words htw beauti-
fully they begin to appear of a rich blue color.
INK OF A CHOCOLATE-BROWN COLOR.
First Solution.
Sulphate of copper
- - - 2 grains.
"Water 1 drachrn.
Write with this solution.
The Second Solution is the same as before
;
that is, that
of the yellow prussiate of potash.
The reader now will be able to comprehend the nature
of the magic photographs, which are not miracles, nor is
their production a recent discovery. But there is much
amusement to be derived from their preparation
;
and we
hope, too, that our practical operators will be able to derive
some profit from them.
HOW TO MAKE THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPHS.
Take in the first place an ordinary print, a card-picture
for instance, on albumen paper, beneath the negative in
the usual way, and when sufficiently printed, let it be
carefully washed in the dark room so as to remove all the
free nitrate of silver, etc. Now immerse it in the follow-
ing solution also in the dark room :
THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH. 9
Saturated solution bichloride of
mercury (corrosive sublimate) 1 ounce.
Hydrochloric acid - - - 1 drachm.
The saturated solution is previously prepared by putting
into water more bichloride of mercury than it will dissolve
by shaking in about 12 hours. Pour olT the quantity
required.
The print will gradually be bleached in this liquid, in
the ordinary meaning of the word
;
that is, it will disap-
pear
;
but the fact is, the print is still there, its color alone
is changed, a double salt having been formed of mercury
and silver which is white, as many of our readers, who
have been in the habit of intensifying with a mercurial
salt, are aware of. As soon as the print has quite disap-
peared, the paper is thoroughly washed and dried in the
dark room
;
it is also preserved between folds of orange-
colored paper in order to keep it from the action of
light ; for the surface is still in some measure sensitive to
light.
The bleaching of the print, that is, its conversion into
a white salt, is effected more quickly by keeping it in mo-
tion in the mercurial solution.
As we said before, the print has not been bleached in
reality, the substance which originally formed it is still
there together with a new substance, a salt of mercury.
10 THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH.
But the two salts of silver and mercury may be easily
brought out and made visible by several solutions, such as
sulphide of ammonium, solution of hydrosulphuric acid ; in
fact, any of the soluble sulphides, ammonia, and hyposul-
phite of soda. The latter salt is used in preference to the
others. Small pieces of blotting-paper, therefore, of the
same size of the prints, are cut out and steeped in a satu-
rated solution of hyposulphite of soda and then dried.
The magic photographs are packed, as before stated, be-
tween folds of orange-colored paper; the papers dipped in
hyposulphite of soda are the developers, and may be
packed between two sheets of common writing-paper.
The development of the image is effected in the following
manner:
Place the albumen paper which contains the whitened
print on a pane of glass, print side upwards ; on this lay
the dry piece of blotting-paper that has been previously
dipped in hyposulphite of soda. Moisten the latter thor-
oughly; then place over it a pane of glass, and upon this a
weight to bring the two pieces of paper into intimate con-
tact. In a very short time the picture will appear in all
its original detail and of a sepia tone.
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Manufacturers, Importers, and Dealers,
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"
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"
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" "
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Kuhn's Patent Porcelain Printing Frame,
"
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"
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"
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"We have the exclusive agency of a new and superior article of FLAT Porcelain Glass,
which can be cut with the same facility as ordinary glass, and furnished in sizes from 1 9
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New Styles, Cases, etc., etc.
SAMUEL HOLMES, Agent.
WILLABD & CO.'S
CELEBRATED CAMERAS.
Our Cameras are warranted to be perfectly reliable and
combine many excellencies and advantages over any
other make.
Extract from
"
The Philadelphia Photographer" June
1,
1866.
American Cameras.It has long been a matter of pride with us to know
that notwithstanding the many excellent Cameras made abroad, each one
having its peculiar merits, those the most in favor for many purposes were
of home manufacture.
We do not know when we have felt this pride more deeply than when
testing the merits of the excellent Cameras made by Willard & Co., New
York, under the care of the justly celebrated optician Mr. Charles F. Usener.
We have been making experiments with the half, whole and double-whole
sizes and remove the focussing-cloth from our head perfectly delighted.
We tested them severely, and in no instance failed to get head and feet
equally sharp. Possessing the valuable properties these lenses do over so
many others offered for sale, we do not hesitate to say that they will become
more and more popular as they are tried, and they deserve the best of
patronage.
We are doing but simple justice to the craft to say this much in feeble
testimony of the gratification we experienced in trying the new American
Cameras made by Messrs. Willard & Co.
o
Extract from "Humphrey's Journal
of
Photography" March 15, 1866.
American Lenses.A few years ago we were indebted to foreign aid for
the manufacture of photographic lenses of a superior quality both for land-
scapes and portraits ; at that time this was a necessity ; but we are very
proud of the fact, this necessity no longer exists. The portrait combina-
tions manufactured by Messrs. Willard & Co., are equal to the best from
abroad. A pair of matched card-picture lenses in our possession from the
new firm cannot be surpassed for sharpness of definition and quickness of
working. The same firm manufacture view lenses endowed with the same
superior qualifications.
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WHOLESALE
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AND
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management of our business.
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HUMPHEEY'B
EDITED BY JOHN TOWLER,, ~M. D.,
Professor of Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, and Chemistry in Hohart College
;
Author of
"
The Silver Sunbeam," "The Am. Photographic Almanac,"
"
The Porcelain
Picture," "Dry Plate Photography," etc.
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"
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