Title: American Journal of Photography, Vol. 8, No. 5, May, 1887
Author: John Bartlett, G. Hanmer Croughten, Ellerslie Wallace, Frank H. Rosengarten, Arthur H. Elliot, Edward Dunmore
Publisher: Thomas H. McCollin & Co., Philadelphia
Date: May 1887
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 18 pages (nos 74-90) with 14 pages of advertising.
Dust Jacket: na
Cover: Stapled self-wraps, clean with  chipped edges and detached front cover, back cover has some light stains and light creases to corners
Interior: Sharp and clean throughout, frontice with tissue detached.
Measurements: 9 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches
Other:                                    Monthly periodical published by McCollin & Co., purveyors in photographic supplies in Philadelphia.  Contents include articles titled:  Chicago Convention;  Intensification of Gelatin Negatives with Nitrate of Silver, Galllic Acid and Per-Chloride of Iron; Gelatino-Bromide Paper as a Basis for Finished Work; Crayon finishing; Prints and Their Surface Finishing; The Origin and Technology of Photographic Chemicals; Our Picture; On Exposure; A Search for a Substitute for Hypo.  Frontis is tipped in albumen photograph on printed mount that reads, "The Question of the Day.  From a Photograph by Wm. Adcock, Esq. Melton Mowbray, Eng. Printed on Morgan's Brilliant Albumen Paper."  Adcock seemed to have some notoriety in England warranting a mention on his portraiture in the 1883 Association Belge le Photographie Bulletin.

 

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