Editorial comment for this plate:

We present our readers, this week, with a photo-gravure from an orthochromatic negative of a very difficult subject. The “Interior of a Palm House” was made by Mr. Edward H. Graves, an amateur of Orange, N. J., on a Carbutt orthochromatic plate without a color screen. It was developed with eikonogen. “Photographing in the green-house is not so easy as it might be,” writes Mr. Graves. “There is such a sharp contrast between the glass and the deeper shadows that there is likely to be some halation if one is not careful. I find the best results are obtained when the sun does not shine at its brightest and when there is no wind to move the leaves on some of the plants. This negative was made early one morning in the fall. While being developed the tray was held at an inclination, so that the developer should only flow over the high lights occasionally—just enough to keep that part of the plate wet. This gave the detail in the shadows a chance to come up, while the high lights were not not made too intense. I find that orthochromatic plates are much superior to the ordinary ones for this kind of work. The color values are certainly more correctly rendered.”

Mr. Graves is to be congratulated on his success. The subject is difficult, but he has obtained a pleasing and satisfactory result. The reproduction was by the New York PhotoGravure Company, and “renders the detail and half tones of the negative excellently,” as Mr. Graves writes, “I am pleased with the process.”

Edward Hale Graves: 1866-1930

Graves was the founding treasurer of the Orange Camera Club in March, 1892.

Obituary: The East Hampton Star; June 6, 1930, p. 7

Edward Hale Graves, for many years active socially in the Oranges, New Jersey, and a former summer resident of East Hampton, died in New Jersey recently at his home, 425 Scotland road, South Orange. He was 63 years old.

He was educated In the schools of Orange and later at the Berkeley School In New York. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but was forced by failing health to leave after a year and a half. He be­came proficient at playing the flute under the tutelage of a German mas­ter. In 1899 he married Miss Jean Stevenson.

Photography was one of Mr. Graves’ hobbies. He had been governor of the Essex County Country Club for many years and was active in the Orange Assemblies, social gatherings of years ago. He was an elder of the Hillside Presbyterian Church, Orange, and a trustee of the New Jersey Orthopedic Hospital, in which capacity he was ac­tive in the care of crippled children.

His daughter, Miss Jean Graves; two brothers and a sister survive. Funeral services were held Wednesday after­noon at his home. Burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange.