At the time of this portfolios’s publication, Walter E. Woodbury was the editor of  The Photographic Times and The American Annual of Photography. He was also the author of The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Photography: Scovill & Adams: New York: 1896

This summary by Woodbury is presented by itself on the recto in the singular portfolio letterpress pagination: the plate list appears on the verso.

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