James T. Harvey

Editorial Comment for this plate:

“WHERE DID HE GET THAT HAT?”

THE charming child portrait which embellishes this issue of THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES comes to us from Mr. J. T. Harvey, a professional photographer of Greenfield, Indiana. The beautiful child (as many might recognize from the family likeness) is a nephew of President C. W. Canfield of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, and editor of “The American Annual of Photography.” Little Gray Duncan is, indeed, a rare subject! The old straw hat, which is so prominent a feature of the picture, suggests the title which has been given to the plate.

Mr. Harvey writes that the negative was on a Seed plate; exposure, one second. “My developer is the following,” he says:

   DEVELOPER STOCK SOLUTION, No. 1.
Sulphite soda, gran…1½ ounces

Carbonate ” ….1 ounces

Water….70 ounces

PYRO, No. 2.

Pyro…..1 ounce

Water….9 ounces

Sulphuric acid….Nearly 2 drachms

To develop, take

No. 1…..3½ ounces

No. 2…2 drachms

Can be used two or three times by adding a little of No. 1.  (p. 551)