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ruby glass or paper, these rays may be kept out of the darkroom, 

 and yet there will be left light enough for the photographer to see. 

 One can purchase a darkroom lantern or use a ruby bulb on the 

 electric light, or one can cover the window, the electric light, 

 or the front of a starch box in which there is a candle, with 

 orange and red tissue paper, or, better still, with the tough 

 orange and ruby paper purchased from a photographic supply 

 house. So one may use the kitchen sink or bathroom washbowl 

 for photographic work, if one can work at night, or can shut 

 out all light by opaque curtains during the day. The photog- 

 rapher has a room fitted with a sink with running water, 

 shelves on which he can keep his apparatus, and other conven- 

 iences. This room is light-tight and is illuminated by a safe 

 source of light. 



One needs for darkroom appliances, in addition to the dark- 

 room lamp, a hard-rubber or glass tray in which to develop 

 plates and prints, an 8-ounce graduate and some stirring rods, 

 a glass tank to hold the plates while they are being fixed, and a 

 similar tank for washing them, one or more print frames of the 

 same size as your plates, and a couple of good-sized trays for 

 washing and fixing prints. These latter may be used in place 

 of the glass tanks in washing and fixing plates. One may 

 appropriate the galvanized kitchen ware, but it is well to have 

 these usual appliances if one is going to do much developing. 

 There are also required a bottle or large fruit jar holding two 

 quarts or more for the fixer, as it can be used repeatedly, a small 

 roll of absorbent cotton, and a towel that you are not afraid of 

 staining. A small pair of scales with gram weights is needed 

 if one is going to make his own developer and other solutions, 

 but the beginner will prefer, probably, to buy these all ready for 

 use (Fig. 161). 



There are a number of developers used by photographers 

 and each man has his favorite. It is well to select some one and 

 use it persistently until you have mastered the technique of 

 handling it. Suppose we select hydrochinone, which comes 



