Handbook of the practice and art of photography (1875)
Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm, 1834-1898, Molling, Edward F · Philadelphia, Benerman & Wilson · leaf 195
ll secure this result. If the pictures have curved very- much by drying, it is well to press them straight with the backs over the sharp edge of a table repeatedly until they remain flat. In the Excelsior Press of the Scovill Manufacturing Company, N. Y., which is in common use in America, the… … Lately Mr. Entrekin has introduced a machine, in which the plate can be heated. Pictures pressed with a hot plate receive an extraordi- nary gloss, more so, and nicer than with wax. In Germany a method is in. vogue, whereby pictures are made very glossy with gelatin ; such pictures are called…
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