Black and White Image from a Seeds Glass Plate Late 1800s Chest of Drawers
For your visual considerations is this awesome image from a Seeds Glass Plate Negative we came across recently. Check out the “close up” of an interesting grouping of figurines on top of the antique wooden chest. Guessing this was taken around the late 1800s and looks like they were collectors of art and figurines.
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Glass plates were used in photography to record the image prior to the invention of film. Originally the glass plates were used while wet with a chemical emulsion thanks to Frederick Archer’s endeavors, later Richard Maddox produced the first practical dry plate using a dried emulsion gel in 1879. In 1884 George Eastman patented roll film, then in 1888 he perfected the Kodak camera, the first camera designed specifically for roll film. By 1892, he established the Eastman Kodak Company located in Rochester, New York. It was one of the first companies to mass-produce standardized photography equipment. The company also manufactured the flexible transparent film devised by Eastman in 1889, which proved vital to the subsequent development of the motion picture industry.
