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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 46, November 11, 2001, Article 6

MASON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY PLATE    

  There were several responses to Bill Malkmus' question   
  about Mason's Photographic Gallery plate.  Nick Graver   
  asks: "I am assuming that the Mason's photo is an early   
  "Composite", made up of many individual portraits, etc.   
  and then recopied for distribution?    Not a group photo   
  at a convention, or such?"    

  [Correct - the photo is a composite made of several    
  individual portrait  photos. -Editor]    

  Cal Wilson writes: "With regard to the Mason's Photographic   
  Gallery Plate, Remy Bourne reproduced it back in the mid-80's   
  and sent me a supply which I added as an insert to an issue of   
  The Repository.  I may still have a few boxed up somewhere,   
  but am not certain.  In any event, it has been reprinted."    

  Charlie Davis writes: "When I reprinted the run of Mason's   
  Periodical in three volumes, the first 100 copies that I sold   
  contained an actual photographic reprint of the Gallery pasted   
  in place as did Mason in the 1860s. The negative was made   
  on a top-of-the-line Haselblad and is the same size as the print   
  but when I tried to make up some enlargements, the graininess   
  kicked in and anything larger than about 11x14  was not good.    

  No Gallery 2 was ever produced."  

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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