Contents
- Stereoviewing 101
- 1First Light
- 2Village – Starting Out
- 3Early Years
- 4The Magic Box and Photography
- 5Town & Country – Orford & Fairlee
- 6Moose Hillock – 1870
- The Expedition to Moosilauke — Journal of Events &c, Whilst on the Mountain by Amos F. Clough
- 7Washington in Winter – 1871: The Expedition to Mount Washington
- 8Here & There
- 9Last View
- 10After Image
Friday, December 30, 1870. The morning is calm, clear, and beautiful.
It is what we have waited a month for. We commenced work on our chemicals at daylight, warming and filtering our baths, suitably tempering developer, etc., and heating all our instruments, to drive the moisture from them; putting our dark room in order, and melting ice for water to use in washing negatives.
We commenced making negatives at sunrise. Experienced great difficulty, in exposing the sensitized plate, to avoid the destruction of the film by freezing. We carried the plate in a warm woolen blanket, but this could only serve in carrying. As soon as the plate was put in the camera from the warm blanket, it would raise a cloud of vapor from the moisture inside, which would congeal on the plate and inside of the camera, and give the inside lenses of the tubes the appearance of ground glass, which of course would prevent the landscapes being imaged upon the plate.