Editorial comment for this plate:

THE VILLAGE MILL.

We take great pleasure in presenting our readers this week with a phototype reproduction of Mr. Charles H. Miller’s pictorial photograph of the Village Mill. This is the picture which we commented upon under the Editorial Table some weeks ago, though from a smaller negative and not an orthochromatic plate. The effect is not so harmonious and soft as that obtained on the Carbutt orthochromatic plates of larger size, but the charming composition of the picture is the same.

The reflections in this view are particularly beautiful, and the distance is also unusually well rendered. If anything, the negative was developed with a little too much contrast, making it somewhat hard; a tendency which Mr. Gutekunst has been unable entirely to overcome in his reproduction, excellent though it is.

Mr. Miller will be remembered as the author of “‘The Old Highway,” which embellished our magazine of the 31st of October. We shall hope to have other specimens of Mr. Miller’s artistic photography to show our readers.

This original gelatin silver print variant, also titled The Village Mill by Charles H. Miller, is dated 1889, and shows a gentleman fishing at background left from same vantage point as this collotype.  Source: Private Collection via Web

Charles Henry Miller: 1842-1922, was an artist and painter of landscapes from Long Island, New York. The American poet Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) called him, “The artistic discoverer of the little continent of Long Island.”—Wikipedia (2026)