Herbert Wendell Gleason miscellaneous photographic negatives, 1900-1928.

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Gleason, Herbert Wendell, 1855-1937. Herbert Wendell Gleason miscellaneous photographic negatives, 1900-1928.

Herbert Wendell Gleason miscellaneous photographic negatives, 1900-1928.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49822041

Botanicals include flowers (Potentilla tridentata, Spiraea salicifolia, and Trientalis borealis), plants (Rattlesnake Plaintain and Pitcher Plant), trees (Beech, Japan Cherry, and Elm) and fungi (russula, toadstool, and hygrophorus). Animals include wildlife (alligators, bear, birds, and fish) and domestic (cows and pigs). Natural Features include three images of a pine stick, elaborately etched by worms. Twenty-two unidentified landscape views include: a field of cornstalks, a country road and bridge, an 18th century house, snow-covered mountains, and heavy surf on rocks. Portraits of people include: Stephen T. Mather holding a mountain lion cub, Mrs. Herbert W. Gleason (Lulie), Mrs. L.D. Rounds (Mrs. Gleason's mother), and several unidentified individuals including a woman playing a violin, and a bearded man feeding pigeons. Speed Tests consists of three images taken by Gleason in 1900 of "Pickering's Speed Tester for testing photographic shutters" (test sheet tacked to a wall). Gleason photographed the test sheet using two different shutters: an Eastman shutter 4 x 5 and a Voigtlander Collinear Imperial Shutter.

119 photonegatives : glass ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller.22 photonegatives : film ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller.

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