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Show TO TBAOB THE PHOTO'S LIFE. Thomas W. BmiMIe, official photographer photogra-pher of Ihe Smithsonian Institution. preparing an exhibit ef photographs whiehja-when whiehja-when completed will Illustrate the devel- 1 opment of the photographic art from the time of the dlacovery of the first process pro-cess bv the Frenchman, Xelpee, in 1SJ4, to thef present lime. Thta exhibit will consist of a collection nt tea photographs)' whisih whea g t n ered. will be placed on exhibition either In the national museum or the S-mlthso-nlan fnatltutlon In Washington. The collection col-lection will be catalogued and each photograph pho-tograph described In detail aa to the pre-ies pre-ies used and the Inventor thereof. Perhaps the most interesting pictures of the collection are two daguerreotypes of Jaguerre himself. One of the photographs photo-graphs of the inventor of the most perfeet method of photography was loaned for the collection by Mrs. Vallentlne of New York, while Ihe other was presented the national muaeum by Mr. Cramfr of Pt. leouis. He paid $:"U for it. Mr. 8m.Ui is of Ihe opinion that the daguerreotoyp method has never been excelled. Even ' Ihe moat modern and up to date methods, meth-ods, he save, do not producs the fineness) sml satisfactory results obistned bv the old slow and cumbersome method on the aliver plate. The picture la toned with gold, thus producing a wonderful clearness, clear-ness, likeness and deisll that have defied pr'ig;resa and Invention. The daguerreotype was first produced in 1M and In the same, year came a'so the talbotype, a process by which chloride of silver waa us d aui-cessfullv on paper. The first negative of ihe Talbot process "Calntvpe" tin produced in 1M0. , After thla came the Coflodtan negative on glass, then came the ambrotype, and later the preaent dav method of photography known as the, gelatine-bromide emulsion process. pro-cess. Great headway Is now being made m developing color photography. Mr. Smll-He Smll-He hsa hen s'gnslly successful in this line of endeavor and the results produced pro-duced bv him will he of unususl Interest. Inter-est. In 1WS he published a book on "The Recent Progress in "olor Photography " fn that veer two met hods of producing photoarapha in color, the aiitochrome and the Warner Powrle processes, were discovered. dis-covered. The exhibit will contain more than 301 "models" pertaining to photography, transferred from the I'ntted atates patent pat-ent office permanenflv. aa thia exhibit is to be one of the p-rpetual features of the Pmtthsonien displays. Mr. Pmllllea discovery of a process of photographing on wood, made in proved of great value to wood engravers, end this and other work made poseihle his election to fellowship of the Royal Photographic society so-ciety of Ixndon. It was this Invention that practice My gave Mr. Hmtilte hla connection con-nection with the government service. J Shortly thereafter Profeeeor Raird, then assists nt secretary of the Smithsonian In-silttrHon, In-silttrHon, who was engaged In preparing an elaborate work on North American btrds. asked the, photographer to aeelst him in Its preparation. Many of the Illustrations Il-lustrations that appear In thla reeognited text book were photographed on wood by Mr. SmilMe for the engravere. With the coming of the present dav photo-engraving process, wood engraving haa practically beoome extlnot. Since , then Mr. Rmfllie has been continuously, with the exoeptlon of a abort period of time, in the service of the government, and a large part of the photographic illustrations il-lustrations In the Smithsonian literature during the Intervening rears haa bean hit work. |