Great book for its time. ( )

I acquired this as a free, legal ebook through Archive.org. It acts as a century-old introduction to basic photographic techniques and various Kodak products available to the amateur photographer. I read for my research interests and skimmed through, and found it fascinating. This would have been indispensable for a budding photographer back in the day. The range of home-use Kodak products is impressive. There was a film tank and film plate tank for those who don't have a dark room--but there is advice on stocking the dark room, too--and many details on the chemicals required for all development techniques. In addition, the book instructs users on how to use equipment to make enlargements, create lantern slides, add color tints (colored photographs make great Christmas gifts, it notes), adding clouds to landscape shots, and using a sheet and some tricks to create silhouette images. ( )

"How to Make Good Pictures", the title of this book explains its mission.
In it all photographic processes have been reduced to the simplest form consistent with good results.
Prominence has been given to the Kodak system of picture making and this is justified because time has demonstrated it to be supreme in the producing of good results in the simplest way.