How to make pictures : easy lessons for the amateur photographer
An 1882 New York instruction manual on photography by Henry Clay Price, published by the Scovill Manufacturing Company for amateur photographers learning to make pictures. The illustrations are precise line engravings of cameras, tripods, and darkroom tools, with lettered parts labelled in the manner of technical diagrams. A designer could draw on their clean mechanical drawing style, their crisp black linework on cream paper, and the tidy hardware diagrams that suit vintage technical graphics.
