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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIX. mSTOBYOF THE HELIOGBAPHIC ART IN THE UNITED STATES. Camera obscura--Professor Draper's early researches--Used bromine and sensitive paper -- Made the first sun-portrait -- Professor Morso's early experiments and their success--A. S. Wolcott and J. Johnson--their discoveries and performances--Dr. Bird--Joseph Saxton, first daguerreotype in Philadelphia--Drs. Goddard and Pnrker--Professors J. Frazer and W. R. Johnson--Messrs. Mason and Cornelius--Professors Grant and Davis--Drs. J. E. Parker and Wildman--Mr. Reed--Mr. Langenheim, his services to heliography--First brought talbotype and stereoscope to United States-- Van Loan, Anthony, Edwards, N. G. Burgess, Charles Williamson, Fizeau, Cady, Gurney, Brady, Quail, Haas, and Lawrence, of New York--Bouthwerth A Hawes, Whipple &. Co., and French, of Boston--Thompson, Schriver. Maynll, M. A. Root, of Philadelphia--Mr. Root bought Mr. Mayall's stand, 140 Chestnut St., 1846--Beckers--Faris, of Cincinnati, Ohio--Hesler, of Illinois--Fitzgibbons, of Missouri--Crystal Palace, New York--Shives-- Howard--Sun-painters in United States -- Decline of daguerreotype -- McClees & Germon, crystallotype--Collodion process, 1852--Drs. Charles Cresson and Langdell--Cutting--Rehn's Photolithography, Ac It will not be irrelevant to the following history, if 1 preface it with a brief extract from an English work of a century or more old. "We may well imagine," says its author, "that could a young painter but view a picture by the hand of nature herself, and study it at his leisure, he would profit by it more than by the finest performances from the hand of man. "Now nature is constantly forming such pictures in our eyes; the solar rays, coming from exterior objects, entering the pupil and being...