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(COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY) A suite of one color photograph and 3 manuals by F.E. Ives (1856-1937), inventor of the Polychrome Color Photography Process. 1931. Cactus. Polychrome color print, the image measuring 6⅛x4 inches (15.6x10.2 cm.), flush mounted, with a typed label with Ives' credit, date, and medium on mount verso; framed.
WITH--Frederic E. Ives. Isochromatic Photography with Chlorophyl. Illustrated with an albumen photograph of the prismatic solar spectrum and 2 cyanotype plates. 4to, gilt-lettered green cloth. Philadelphia: Printed by the Author, 1886
AND--Frederic E. Ives. A New Principle in Heliochromy. 8vo, gilt-lettered red cloth. (Philadelphia): Printed by the Author, 1889
AND--Frederic E. Ives. Polychrome Process Color Photography - Concise Explanation and instructions by the inventor. 16mo, wrappers. Philadelphia: Self-published, 1935.
Also accompanied by a copy of The Journal of The Franklin Institute, April 1938 with an article on the artist: "Frederic Eugene Ives: A Little tribute to a Great Inventor, by W.N. Jennings. Lancaster/Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, 1938, p. 455
