Re: "Seeds" -- some more details on M.A.Seeds Dry Plate Company

[P3D Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Although generally I don't repost long messages, I thought this fairly
interesting since I assume that views were also produced via this
media...

THANKS

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>Subject:      Re: "Seeds" -- some more details on M.A.Seeds Dry Plate Company
>To: Multiple recipients of list PHOTOHST <PHOTOHST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>I hope I'm not exhibiting and emabarassing level of ignorance, but can
>>anyone tells me what the annotation "Seeds 26 x" might mean?
>
>I also have a box of that says on its side:
>
>    1 Doz. | Seed's     26     3 1/2 x 6 1/2
>
>where the 26 is within a white "sunburst" on a red background.  This
>is actually a paper stamp glued onto the side of the box.  I also have
>a "Watkins Bee Exposure Meter, U. S. Dial" of approximately the same
>vintage.  Around one half of the circular rim is a sequence of numbers
>from 1 to 500 labelled "Plate".  Around the other half of
>the rim is a sequence of numbers from 1 to 130 labelled "Exp."
>I suspect the "26" was meant to be used with this or similar metering
>systems.
>
>Here are some dated references to Seed Plates that I have turned
>up after a short search:
>
>   1886 -- Queen & Co. Photographic catalog, p. 112, list the same prices
>               for "Glass Dry-Plates" by any of eight (8) manufacturers,
>               one of whom is "Seed."
>   1895 -- Rochester Optical Co. "Catalog of Photographic Apparatus" lists
>               "Seed's" as one of five brands of dry plates, all priced the
>               same.
>   July, 1899 -- Photo-Miniature #4, p. 198, prints a letter from "M. A.
>               Seed Dry Plate Company extolling the virtures of "Millen's
>               Chromium Fixing Salt."
>   Feb., 1900 -- Photo-Miniature #11, p. 579, carries an ad: "The M. A. Seed
>               Dry Plate Co. announce new plates of special interest to
>               makers of lantern slides and transparencies." Etc.
>                 St. Louis Office:  2005 Lucas Place
>                 New York Depot:    57 East 9th Street
>                 Works:             Woodland, Mo.
>
>--
>Gregory Walker             gwalker@xxxxxxxxxx
>Digital Daguerreian Archive Project --
>Electronic texts from the dawn of photography.
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