Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 374
WsSsvsHhoi; c> A WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION OF THE OLD HOMESTEAD. Note the chickens and the grindstone. Engraved and lent to ST. NICHOLAS by Walworth Stilson, Shelton, Connecticut. worn, and the picture thus be lost, it was thecustom to make a metal cast, known as an elec-trotype, of the block, and to… … A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ENGRAVED WOOD-BLOCK THATPRINTED THE OLD HOMESTEAD ILLUSTRATION. often unsatisfactory. So a method was devisedof photographing the picture and printing it onsmooth metal, and then, by means of acid, eating,or etching, away between the lines, instead ofcutting it away by hand, as…
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