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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 leai-n for himself. 



One last word of precaution. If you would 

 succeed and turn out good work, you can never 

 afford to be careless. Never w^ork in a hurry, but 



