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Mount Desert Souvenir. Fifteenth Annual Excursion of the Massachusetts Press Association, July 5—9, 1884.

Ware, Mass: Charles W. Eddy, 1884. Autoglyph prints by W. P. Allen, West Gardiner, Mass. Oblong 8vo (8” x 9.75”), alligator skin textured burgundy paper over boards, gilt title on upper cover. 7 pp., [1] blank p., 21 “autoglyph” plates.

A scarce Mount Desert Island view book documenting an outing undertaken by members of the Massachusetts Press Association and their wives, with plates based on photographs taken by a member (or members) of the excursion.

The party traveled to Bar Harbor via a recently opened route on the Eastern and Maine Central Railroads and brought with them their “Amateur Photographic Outfit” (no photographer is credited). The subjects of the plates include Rodick House, Pulpit Rock, Balance Rock, Eagle Lake, the Green Mountain train, Summit House on Green Mountain, “Buckboard party, Bee-Hive Mountain,” Great Oven, Cathedral Rock , and others. The images are printed on glossy paper and the quality is quite good. The printer, W. P. Allen, purchased Artotype patent rights in 1879. One authority identifies the autoglyph with the Indotype patent. Both, however, seem to be obscure processes.

OCLC records just two copies, at the University of Maine Orono and in the David A. Hanson collection of the history of photomechanical reproduction at the Clark Art Institute.

CONDITION: Very good, moderate wear to extremities.

Item #7072

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