Automatic developing machine – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Automatic developing machine in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Stereo cards rarely took photographic processing equipment as their subject, which sets this one apart: it puts a developing machine, not a landscape or a famous building, at the center of the view. The card was issued by the H.C. White Co., a North Bennington, Vermont firm that produced stereographs for home viewers from the 1890s into the 1920s, and the Library dates it to about 1909. Cards like this show how commercial photo processing was being mechanized in the early twentieth century, when many photographers moved away from hand-worked tanks and trays toward factory-made equipment.
| Created / published | c1909 April 1. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | H125138 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Machinery; Photography; Stereos; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,469 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144428 |
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