PICTORIAL SURVEY OF ESSEX. 3 



results is to map out the country into districts and enlist as many 

 local helpers as possible. Negatives would be taken by the 

 local helpers and their friends, and prints by some permanent 

 process, such as the platinum or carbon processes, would be 

 made by them and forwarded to headquarters unmounted. Such 

 prints shoidd be accompanied by descriptive labels, giving 

 information as to the object photographed, the date on which 

 the negative was taken (this may be of the greatest importance), 

 the process used for printing, and the name and address of the 

 photographer. Whole plate and half plate should be the standard 

 sizes for prints, but of course quarter plates would have to be 

 accepted for hand camera work. 



These prints would then be carefully mounted, labelled and 

 stored in such a fashion that ready reference would be secured. 



The Warwickshire prints are all mounted on card v/ith sunk 

 mounts, and are then bound into book form for storage. If the 

 main object of the survey be, as it should be, the preservation of 

 such records for future reference by serious students, this method 

 seems to me to be not the best that could be adopted. Often 

 reference to a particular district means referring to a large 

 number of bulky volumes. Further, it is next to impossible to 

 secure that card mounts shall be made of materials sufficiently 

 pure to prevent the mount damaging the print ; neither does 

 the material of which . such mounts are made possess the 

 necessary lasting qualities. Suitable mounts can be made only 

 out of the purest paper. 



The method of mounting and storage that I would suggest is 

 illustrated by the sample shown by me at the meeting of 

 the Essex Field Club in January last. 



The prints are mounted on paper of good quality, about 

 the thickness of stout cartridge paper. All mounts are of foolscap 

 size, and will take a whole plate, a half plate, or two quarter 

 plate prints. Descriptive matter can be written on the back 

 of the mount. The prints are attached to the mount by puvc 

 starch paste. The mounts are then bound together in a foolscap 

 size " Stolzenberg " File, each photograph being protected by a 

 sheet of tissue paper, bound in by the file between each mount. 

 These files will hold about 50 to 100 of such mounts. They 

 allow the prints to be examined as easily as though they w^ere 

 bound up like a book, and yet permit of the removal of any one 



