The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

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THE FERROTYPE.
pictures could be made on one plate at the same
time, by consecutive ex])0sures through one or
more lenses, increase and extend the popularity
of the Ferrotype. Any means whereby a dozen
pictures could be made in about the space of time
previously required to make one by the old
method, would enable the operator to sell a
dozen at or near the same price as he formerly
demanded for one—and then, a dozen ''Gem"
Ferrotypes could be made and mounted on cards,
or set in ])reservers, or merely cut apart, and be
sold for 50 cents, while very few artists ever-
thought of charging less than that sum for one,
set in a case.
At the present time, no gallery can be con-
sidered to be furnished without a Multiplying
Camera box, for they are as useful in all other
branches of photography as they are in making
Ferrotypes.
It is claimed that the first Multiplier was
made, and a patent procured for the same, by
Mr. Albert Southworth, of Boston, Mass., and
however successfully that claim may be disputed,
it is not denied that the first boxes of the kind
were made and sold as Multii)lying boxes by Mr.
Simon Wing, originally of Waterville, Maine,
under Mr. Southworth's patent, of which Mr.
Wing became the purchaser, in conjunction with
Mr. Marcus Ormsbee, of Boston.
For some ten or twelve years past, Mr. Wing
has manufactured these boxes in Boston, Mass.,