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negative. These I pack upright, in numerical 

 order, in long, lidless boxes which are just the 

 width of the envelopes. These I put away on 

 shelves just deep enough and high enough to re- 

 ceive them, and in this manner I can store a large 

 number of negatives in a comparatively small 

 place and yet have easy access to any one that I 

 may need. On the front of each box I have a 

 label which tells me what subjects and what 

 numbers that box contains, and, by the aid of my 

 catalogue (and it is necessary for any one to keep 

 a catalogue if he has a large number of negatives 

 from which he is constantly working), I can get, 

 without loss of time, any negative from which I 

 wish to print. 



This also insures greater safety to the nega- 

 tives, for it necessitates less handling of them. 

 In all my photographic career I have broken, 

 unintentionally, just three negatives, and I attrib- 

 ute this largely to my method of keeping them. 



Necessarily, in the confined space of one chap- 

 ter it is impossible to give, in full detail, all the 

 various processes of developing, printing, etc. I 

 have, however, attempted to give the more essen- 

 tial details which a beginner should know, and 

 the rest he must learn for himself. 



One last word of precaution. If you would 

 succeed and turn out good work, you can never 

 afford to be careless. Never work in a hurry, but 



