FLOWCHART FOR IDENTIFICATION GUIDE I<] From Care and Identification of 19th-Century Photographic Prints ‘by James M. Reilly Choose Between Photomechanical and True Photograph For True Photographs, Choose One-, Two-, or Three-Layer Structure, Then Choose Individual Characteristics [amredce xan eee nit Beieiwes cae) conse — - Por fopetucon ora — pier Toe aoe | «May have Multiple = aro are eS a re + Aquatint Grain Rees cdr ee couoTveeTRUE PHOTOGRAPH - Layer Structure Individual ‘and Surface Character (Charactorstice Process + Red Brown, Purple, or Yellow-Brown ‘SALTED PAPER ‘Image Hue! PRINT = + Signs of Fading «Blue Image Hue’ cYANOTYPE +'No Binder Layer! No Baryta Layer! + Paper Fibers Creanly Visibie® + Mate Surface? + Neutral Image Hue! eo | “+ No image Fading!+ Sign of Fading? ‘Two Layers «Highlights Yelow? Red-Brown, Purple, or low Brown Image toe! “it Binder is Cracked, "Tiny Cracks Overall + Paper Fibers Visible + Binder Layer per Fibers Vi a ‘in Al Areas? No Baryea aa are? No image Relie? + Paper Fibers Visible through Binder in Highights Home Surlace oo «No Image Fading! — Image Hue! ALBUMEN PRINT CARBON PRINT ‘True Photograph ‘WOODBURYTYPE, Photomechanical GELATIN PRINTING-OUT PAPER + Warm or Purple + Paper Fibers Invisible: couLoDion PRINTING-OUT PAPER + Binder and Baryia Layers Prosont? ‘Paper Fibers ‘+No Image Fading! MATTE COLLODION Partially, + Paper Fibers PRINTING-OUT PAPER or Completely Partially Visible? WITH GOLD AND. ‘Obscured in’ + 'No Mirroring! PLATINUM TONING Highlights! ] + Near-Neutral Ie Image Hue? a + Paper Fibers invisiblet GELATIN + Often Mirrored in Dark Pee Cee eine arse ee Sober tn Charter ‘Areas and at Edges"MAJOR 19TH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHIC AND PHOTOMECHANICAL PROCESSES Example Prints Process and Photomacrograph PHOTOGRAVURE 1880- CoMoTYPE 1870-MATTE COLLODION PRINTING-OUT PAPER 'WITH GOLD AND. — PLamvm Toxme — 1894-1920 DAK Publeaon No. G25 EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY ¢ ROCHESTER, NY 14650 ‘© Easiman Kodak Company, 188 Print in the United States of Ameren Kodak sa trodemak