OTOGKAPHWITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS

H O W TO MAKE IT.

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THE

MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH;

WITH FULL DIRECTIONS

AND

FORMULAS FOll MAKING IT.

BY

JOHN TOILER, M.D.,professor of chemistry, natural philosophy, and mathe-

matics in hobart college; author of m the silver

sunbeam," " the porcelain picture," and

editor of " Humphrey's journal

OF photography," etc.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 18CC, by

JOSEPH H. LADD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

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THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH

;

OR,

HOW INSTANTANEOUSLY TO PRODUCE A PHO-

TOGRAPH ON PAPER.

Another photographic plaything is hefore us, which,

from all appearance, will be in great demand for a while.

It can be made very amusing for children, and for all

others of a more advanced age, who are not above being

what they have once been, when fictions pleased them

more than realities.

A very estimable and intellectual lady, the head of an

establishment where our sisters and daughters are washed,

taught and prepared for spheres hereafter, called in the

aid of the chemist a few months back to instruct her in

the preparation of magic papers or leaves to be used by a

little witch or fortune-teller at an evening's entertainment

for the benefit of our sick soldiers.

The little sibyl, whose office it was to superintend this

branch of *the evening's recreations, was appropriately

donned in the habiliments of an enchantress ; and her

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nook was a sylvan haunt constructed in the corner of a

room amidst roots, logs, snakes and ogres. Fiery eyes

were seen flashing scintillations through every avenue

amid the overhanging branches to give magic zest to the

retreat and to deter intruders. Within this dark abode,

at the entrance of a cave, sat the little sibyl, who had

only to look to lure ; and many were the victims of that

night, beguiled of their mental composure, for months

afterwards by the incantations or spells of the sibyl's eyes.

Before her was a wicker-basket wound alternately with

green twigs, snakes and centipedes ; and this basket was

full of sibylline leaves, small pieces of paper perfectly

white and without stain. The sibyl sold these papers at

the rate of two shillings each, and so great became the

sale, that a little puck had to be generated among the

dentiform crevices to assist in the distribution. As soon

as the sibylline leaf was paid for, the tiny fingers of the

sylph dipped it in a ewer of water, the Fluid of Incanta-

tion. No sooner was this done than there started out upon

the leaf words distinct and legible, prophetic of the youth's

future ; and the youth, not like us old codgers, long initi-

ated in the wiles and charms of sirens, was fain to believe

in the truth of the prophecy—that there was an appropri-

ateness, a fitness, a probability in the prophetic leaf, the

fond creature could not help but believe ; hence his sleep-

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less nights and his dreamy days for months after this

event.

You would like to know how these magic leaves were

prepared ?

That is just what we expected.

Two liquids are required in the preparation of sibylline

leaves, one is the invisible ink with which the leaves are

written before they are deposited in that frightful basket,

and the other liquid, when the leaves are immersed in it,

colors the invisible ink and thus makes it quite legible.

Such inks are called sympathetic ; there are several of

them.

The following two liquids produce, by their conjoint ac-

tion, blue letters :

Dissolve a grain or two of protosulphate of iron (green

vitriol, such as you use in your developer) in a drachm of

water ; and with a perfectly clean pen write with this

solution on a piece of paper. When dry the writing will

be invisible. But now immerse the dried leaf in the fol-

lowing solution

:

Ferrocyanide of potassium (yel-

low prussiate of potash) - 1 drachm.

Water - - - - - 1 ounce.

As soon as the paper has been immersed in this solution,

THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPH.

take it out and watch the letters and words htw beauti-

fully they begin to appear of a rich blue color.

INK OF A CHOCOLATE-BROWN COLOR.

First Solution.

Sulphate of copper - - - 2 grains.

"Water • 1 drachrn.

Write with this solution.

The Second Solution is the same as before ; that is, that

of the yellow prussiate of potash.

The reader now will be able to comprehend the nature

of the magic photographs, which are not miracles, nor is

their production a recent discovery. But there is much

amusement to be derived from their preparation ; and we

hope, too, that our practical operators will be able to derive

some profit from them.

HOW TO MAKE THE MAGIC PHOTOGRAPHS.

Take in the first place an ordinary print, a card-picture

for instance, on albumen paper, beneath the negative in

the usual way, and when sufficiently printed, let it be

carefully washed in the dark room so as to remove all the

free nitrate of silver, etc. Now immerse it in the follow-

ing solution also in the dark room :

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Saturated solution bichloride of

mercury (corrosive sublimate) 1 ounce.

Hydrochloric acid - - - 1 drachm.

The saturated solution is previously prepared by putting

into water more bichloride of mercury than it will dissolve

by shaking in about 12 hours. Pour olT the quantity

required.

The print will gradually be bleached in this liquid, in

the ordinary meaning of the word ; that is, it will disap-

pear ; but the fact is, the print is still there, its color alone

is changed, a double salt having been formed of mercury

and silver which is white, as many of our readers, who

have been in the habit of intensifying with a mercurial

salt, are aware of. As soon as the print has quite disap-

peared, the paper is thoroughly washed and dried in the

dark room ; it is also preserved between folds of orange-

colored paper in order to keep it from the action of

light ; for the surface is still in some measure sensitive to

light.

The bleaching of the print, that is, its conversion into

a white salt, is effected more quickly by keeping it in mo-

tion in the mercurial solution.

As we said before, the print has not been bleached in

reality, the substance which originally formed it is still

there together with a new substance, a salt of mercury.

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But the two salts of silver and mercury may be easily

brought out and made visible by several solutions, such as

sulphide of ammonium, solution of hydrosulphuric acid ; in

fact, any of the soluble sulphides, ammonia, and hyposul-

phite of soda. The latter salt is used in preference to the

others. Small pieces of blotting-paper, therefore, of the

same size of the prints, are cut out and steeped in a satu-

rated solution of hyposulphite of soda and then dried.

The magic photographs are packed, as before stated, be-

tween folds of orange-colored paper; the papers dipped in

hyposulphite of soda are the developers, and may be

packed between two sheets of common writing-paper.

The development of the image is effected in the following

manner:

Place the albumen paper which contains the whitened

print on a pane of glass, print side upwards ; on this lay

the dry piece of blotting-paper that has been previously

dipped in hyposulphite of soda. Moisten the latter thor-

oughly; then place over it a pane of glass, and upon this a

weight to bring the two pieces of paper into intimate con-

tact. In a very short time the picture will appear in all

its original detail and of a sepia tone.

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Extract from "Humphrey's Journal of Photography" March 15, 1866.

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EDITED BY JOHN TOWLER,, ~M. D.,

Professor of Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, and Chemistry in Hohart College; Author of

" The Silver Sunbeam," "The Am. Photographic Almanac," " The PorcelainPicture," "Dry Plate Photography," etc.

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