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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 1.Enlargement of questioned signature showing name James Connelly twice.Faint writing reproduced because of yellow stains left by erasing with chemicals. Book was a public record. After he was indicted the defend-ant said that the name signed to the book was not his signa-ture. And when the Prosecutor looked again, he found thatthe original signature had been erased by chemicals, the samename written over it—but in another handwriting, and a bigblot put over part of the signature. Photographs weremade and the faint yellow stain read J^^^^ Connelly. Theexpert for the prosecution testified at the trial that the faintwriting was in the handwriting of the defendant. An expert forthe defendant, who was in court, prepared to testify that thesecond or overwriting was not in the hand of the defendant, 290
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DESPONDENCY. ARTHUR W. WALBURN. immediately after examining the photographs took his hat andleft the courtroom. Writing faded toward yellow will photograph quite blackand thus make it plainer in the photograph than in the original. Color screens or ray filters are useful in many cases in catch-ing any bit of color; and of course orthochromatic plates areoften a necessity. For enlargements over three diameters it is better to placethe filter over the object, as it gives sharper definition. By the use of contrast ray filters any color in the v/riting ordocument may be emphasized. Sometimes it is necessary touse a filter to correct the background in the paper—manila forexample—or to exclude some extraneous thing—for example,a red blot on black writing, etc. A transmitted light photograph will nearly always showdifferences in inks, thickness of strokes, quality of line, writmgover fold in paper, retouching, patching and overwriting—ifthese things are actually present. Two ink stro

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