Show ph 0 f 19 h 0 0 4 Z Z C 3 zw NT N ar X N F Z 4 I 1 ai ae 3 M caja jr by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN CUE are two names that are sore of immortality catherine dorothy draper and john johe i william lain draper for there will always be encyclopedia in which Is the record of human progress find and individual achievement and these encyclopedias will contain articles on photography and no or article on photography Is complete out mention of these two names for the first photograph of the human humalo face was m that of the fair features of miss bliss draper and the inai 1 who fiade the photograph b was r as ter her brother professor draper moreover moreover whenever ili enever photographer rheet to discuss their art the story rf thi the first photographic portrait la Is tobe retold at the recent contention on of the american chemical society at rochester 1166 ester N X Y prof francis owen lowen rice of new york university retold the story and exhibited tle the copy of the photograph reproduced herewith interesting in this connection are the he other photographs reproduced kach each gives a glimpse of the pro gres gresi that has been made in the 82 yeara since duce the drapers achieved immortality the photograph of theodore llone Iton evelt sevelt assistant secretary of fit the navy which shows him in the act of Is the familiar snapshot snap shot which the amateur of the present nt day can take the baseball scene Is a speed picture the dirt thrown up by the man sliding in Is super suspended ded in the air so fast did the shutter work the birdseye birds eye of the white house was taken from an airplane et the picture Is as clear as if the 1 camera had bad been on a tripod on top of the washington monument jaques maude daguerre born bom in normandy Noi mandy Is the pioneer of the process of photography his name Is immortalized in ID the word he worked for many years tar ta fix the pictures seen in the camera obscures obscura ob photography as everyone knows Is the art of preparing permanent representations of objects by means of the light they emit or NV Ved gewood edgewood and davy are rd i ed ith the first step they obtained prints print of ferns and lace by placing them on paper or leather treated with silver nitrate and exposing them to the light daguerre made the first photograph produced in a camera it was a delli cate at positive the laai image was tas ie very ri friable and no copies could be made still it was a photograph soon deguerre guerre reached the point where lie inal lit announcement that he be could take a photograph of an inanimate object Ms camera requiring an exposure of 0 approximately half an hour this was in 1839 1819 at the time fia Dagro gnerre ire announced his discovery prof samuel finley breese morse 1791 2791 1872 was in europe yes yei alil Is the morse who invented the telegraph but he be was more than an lai ini V aa w t lie ile was born in charlestown Charles town ma aias and was waa graduated from yale tale in 1810 lie ile studied painting under washington allston and benjamin west 11 est he became one of the be bet t of ct our early portrait painters and a credit to his masters lie ile was the first president of the national academy of design the university 1 0 I the city citi 0 of new york made him professor of the history of art in 1835 it aas as while returning from europe in 1832 that he conceived the idea of the telegraph but it was not until 1844 that his efforts were successful and he was able to send over the wire the message what hath god wrought john william draper 1811 was born near liverpool england and came to america in 1831 ile he graduated in medicine in 1838 1836 from the university of pennsylvania ile he took the chair of chemistry and natural history in the university of new york in 1839 in 16 1841 helie he became came professor of che chemistry mittry in the medical department of the university so you see in 1839 when daguerre Da guerra made his announcement of the first photograph morse and draper were colleagues in new york university morse was interested in photography through his portrait painting and in chemistry through his telegraph on which he was working draper was wa interested in photography through his chemical investigations what more natural althen then that morse should hasten to write draper of Da Dague guerreo success in taking a photograph in a camera moreover morse gave a full account of Dag Dague verres process he and daguerre were friends the frenchman having traveled in america exhibiting dissolving lievi a draper studied morses account he quickly saw changes that could be made in the process to shorten the exposure of minutes to seconds thes if successful would enable him to I 1 make a photograph of a living subject so draper immediately constructed a camera made out of a cigar box and two spectacle lenses preliminary experiments peri ments pave gave promise of success thon he be asked his sister to sit for hint S she dreaded up for the occasion in the costume fashionable among new york belles of the day and climbed with her brother to the roof of the aty building where the sun vai A as shining in full summer glare draper first covered his sisters face with a thick coating of white then he be put her down in a chair and clamped her head bead in an iron brace to lo prevent her moving doubtless there are galleries even yet in remote country districts where the clamp Is considered a necessary part of the ap of a first class clai s gall eryl professor draper made an exposure of only ohly thirty seconds then lie closed the camera and hurried to the dark room to develop the plate As a matter mattei of fact all he really hoped to get gee was proof that an instantaneous exa ex kosure was feasible but it was an excellent likeness in fact it was so excellent that most odthe of the keople to whom it was shown were entirely skeptical and did not hesitate to accuse the photographer of using the pencil of the artist to cups sups ply the deficiencies of the camera however professor draper obligingly repeated the experiment many times with unvarying success moreover he ha wrote several articles for the magazines of the day giving full details finally the doubters were convinced not only were the doubters con vinced but they demanded photography of themselves and their wives anil an their sweethearts soon there wall wag such a demand for daguerreotypes that draper and morse opened a pho gallery this was certainly the first in america and probably the tha first in the world ath professor morse in europe la in 1839 was matthew B brady 1824 1896 ile he was a precocious boy ot of fifteen tin an employee of A T stewart New Yorks ks merchant prince aben professor draper produced his instantaneous photograph brady saw his 1119 opportunity he quickly established fa i gallery on broadway ne ile was alic successful from the start in 1851 he be took a prize at the london worlds fair when the civil war or broke out oat he was brady the photographer with worldwide world wide fame and galleries in new york and washington when the civil war broke out brady started out with a horse and buggy and a camera to photograph it II 11 was in the thick of the first battle of bull run that night he blundered into the new york fire department zou aves ile he was on foot but he still had bad his negatives the gave him a sword which he be strapped on outside of ills linen duster and so BO made his way to washington in making his wonderful collection of civil war pictures he spent the fortune he had made as a photographer in wash ington owned by levin corbin corban handy a nephew Is a collection of prady negatives nearly every one Is the portrait altof of a celebrity edward VII Is there so are andrew jackson and edgar allen alien roe poe and sam houston and santa anna and J J audubon the index reads like a catalogue of the tha worlds greatest of the nineteenth century brady the worlds most famous photographer died in the Presby terl teri an hospital new york a poor man excessive bight no bo that this organ li Is rendered incapable of appreciating the aker stimulating action of twilight T r moonlight |