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Union Buttery. Photographed by
Ft. Lyon — 1863 Matthew Brady
Most famous among the Anthony clients of those days was Matthew B. Brady, whose celebrated collection of photographs of the Civil War made in the field with Anthony materials, was probably the first, and certainly the most famous of all camera warreportages. Considering the handicaps faced even today by the men who follow battling armies with a camera. Brady’s Civil War pictures made under all the handicaps of the cumbersome wet-plate process, are still unequalled. Not only did he have to carry with him the bulky camera equipment of the period, but in addition his equipment must serve as a miniature platefactory and. of course, as a darkroom for the immediate development of his pictures. All told, he had to burden himself with an assortment of camera and laboratory equipment whic h would today be a load for a fair-sized truck !
But by 1880 the vastly simpler gelatin dry plate process had been introduced, thus bringing photography closer to its modern stage, and the first Anthony dry plates were introduced. followed four years later by the first Anthony (plate) hand camera.
First Celluloid Film
In 1887 the Anthonys were associated in a development, the importance of which is exceeded only by the original invention of photography itse If. Th is was the invention of celluloid-based photographic film, which not only freed photography from the restrictions imposed by bulky, breakable glass plates, but which at a single stroke made the motion picture possible. From the very earliest days of photography, the limitations of Daguerre’s metal plates and St. Victor's glass plates had been realized. Oiled and waxed paper, and a thousand other supports had been tried and found wanting. Photographic re
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Entrance to Agfa-Ansco Administration Building — 1939
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