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Description:	Soon after moving to Tacoma we discovered a large wooden crate buried under insulation in the attic of our 1890s home. It was filled with more than 200 glass negativessome carefully wrapped and labeled, many unidentified, stacked together and miraculously unbroken. Details revealed through scanning dated the negatives, placing them in the 1890 to 1900s. More clues were provided by our library?s records and confirmed with names on boxes found from the same period within the walls of the house. It appears several photographers were responsible for taking them: Anthony P. Prichard, his son Arthur G. Prichard, and daughter-in-law Mattie Baker Prichard. Despite clues, the photographs leave the viewer to fill in the blanks and gain a sense of being here, then?--Artist statement from publishers website (accessed July 18, 2018)The photographs ... were scanned from circa 1890 glass negatives then inkjet printed on handmade abaca. Each image was varnished and bound in die-cut panels of Rising museum board. The text was handset in Packard, Copperplate, and Dorchester and letterpress printed by Jessica Spring.--Colophon.A collaboration between Jessica Spring and photographers who lived in her home over a century ago ... explores the mystery of a box of glass negatives discovered in the artists attic. The photographs document a new leisure class in a city moving beyond its frontier origins. Housed in a clamshell box, the book unfolds into four accordion chapters that converge at both a literal and historical crossroads, transporting the viewer to the 1890s. The images are ink-jet printed on handmade abaca, varnished, and bound in panels of Rising museum board. The text is hand set and letterpress printed in an edition of 24.--Publishers website (accessed July 18, 2018).The photographs were taken by members of the Prichard family of Tacoma, Washington, from 1890 to the 1900s.The reader must assemble the parts to view the translucent images, which are visible from either side. Issued in a drop spine box made by Trisha Hammer with coppery-gold colored silktitle letterpress printed on a paper label inset into the top of the box.I-ART: Library has limited ed. copy no. 21/24, signed by the artist.
Origin:	2007
Created By:	Spring, Jessica
Publisher:	Tacoma, Wash. : Springtide Press, 2007.
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/2294
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Pritchard family. Artists books--Washington (State) Toy and movable books--Washington (State) Photography in art--Washington (State) Tacoma (Wash.)--Pictorial works. Rising museum board, inkjet printed on handmade abaca, drop spine box, coppery-gold colored silk

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