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For Winter & Snow Landscape Work 



Use plates on your No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak by having a Goerx 

 'Plate Attachment fitted to it, and obtain the best results. 



For this kind of work Isochromatic and 

 Double Coated Plates are used. 



Focvs Your Picture on the Ground Glass 



The new Gocrz Plate Attachment has met 

 with instant approval and fills a long 

 felt want. 



Excellent for Home Portraiture 



Send in your Kodak and have it fitted 

 with one. 



For further information and 

 circular, address your dealer or 



C. P. GOERZ OPTICAL WORKS 



Room 27, 52 E. Union Square, New York 



SCRAP-BOOK NOTES, 



Every one of the following ideas I have 

 found good, and therefore suggest that 

 other amateurs test them faithfully : 



The best way to wash prints is to pin 

 them on a board, slant it under the faucet 

 of the bath tub, and let the water run over 

 the prints for an hour or 2. Have the board 

 wide enough for 2 rows of prints, and as 

 long as you wish. Nail a narrow, thin strip 

 of wood to each side of the board to keep 

 the water flowing down the board instead 

 of over the sides. To dry the prints and 

 flatten them at the same time, make a book 

 of blotters that are a half inch wider and 

 an inch longer than the print, put between 

 each 2 blotters, a sheet of glazed paper, 

 same size as blotter, such as comes around 

 printing paper, fasten together with 2 brass 

 fasteners, place the wet prints on each 

 blotter, with the glazed paper over the face 

 of the print, put under a pile of books and 

 press flat. 



Possibly there are some amateurs who 

 desire to take flower pictures or portraits 

 before they can afford to buy a back- 

 ground ; in which case they may find the 

 following suggestions helpful. For some 

 portraits and flowers, a sheet, draped care- 

 fully and gracefully in folds, makes a pret- 

 ty background, as it prints out white and 

 pale gray blended. A little study may be 

 necessary to obtain a pretty result in drap- 



ing, but it can be done. Other portraits 

 need a dark background, so use a dark red 

 or brown cloth, and drape into light and 

 dark folds. Flowers, if an ortho plate and 

 a ray screen are used, sometimes need a 

 yellow or orange background, also treated 

 as above. These backgrounds should be 

 placed far enough back from the object 

 photographed to be just out of focus. 



Every amateur should carry a pocket note 

 book in which to jot down bits of informa- 

 tion, such as the price of supplies, the name 

 of some new article to work with, the title 

 of new books and magazines on photogra- 

 phy, addresses of people connected with 

 this same work, and. above and beyond 

 all else, the location of some lovely picture 

 such as one often sees when the camera 

 is at home. — M. F. Oliver, in the Camera 

 and Dark Room. 



Shellac and borax make a good water- 

 proof paper in aqueous solution. Such pa- 

 per is useful as a flexible support for car- 

 bon work and in many other ways. Fol- 

 lowing is the formula: 



Shellac 3 parts 



Borax 1 part 



Water 30 parts 



Boil until dissolved. If this paper is 

 used for carbons it must, of course, be 

 waxed before each use t 



