Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

From the early daguerreotype to the rise of the motion picture, Images and Enterprise explores the business, technical, and social factors that transformed the American photographic industry between 1839 and 1925. Reese Jenkins's prize-winning history traces the technical changes that culminated in George Eastman's creation of the Kodak system of amateur photography in the 1880s. Its compact, simply operated cameras would revolutionize an entire industry—even if at first the whole camera had to be mailed back to the company for developing and reloading. Images and Enterprise also vividly portrays the emergence of cinematography in its relationship to traditional photography and reveals the growing importance of institutionalized research, as Eastman Kodak and the other American and European photographic materials manufacturers strove to develop commercially practical color photography. Frontmatter (page N/A) Preface (page xiii) Acknowledgments (page xv) Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources (page xvii) Introduction/Framework of Industrial Development (page 2) I Daguerreotype Period 1839-1855 (page 9) 1 The Deguerreotype Period (page 10) II Collodion Period 1855-1895 (page 35) 2 Glass Plate and Paper Photography (page 36) III Gelatin Plate Period 1880-1895 (page 65) 3 The Gelatin Revolution, 1880-95 (page 66) 4 Origins of the Roll Film System, 1884-89 (page 96) 5 The Development of Celluloid Roll Film, 1887-95 (page 122) 6 Modifications of the Roll Film System, 1890-95 (page 134) 7 Responses of the Traditional Leadership to the Technical Revolution (page 160) IV Perod of the Amateur Roll Film System 1895-1909 (page 171) 8 The Corporate, Industrial and Technological Setting (page 172) 9 Horizontal Integration: Eastman Kodak (page 188) 10 Vertical Integration: Eastman Kodak (page 236) 11 Horizontal and Vertical Integration: Anthony and Scovill (page 246) 12 The Emergence of the Cinematographic Industry (page 258) V Period of Silent Cinematography 1909 to 1925 (page 281) 13 The Cinematographic Industry: Integration and Innovation (page 282) 14 Preservation of the Corporate and Industrial Structure (page 300) Conclusion (page 340) Appendix/Technological Diffusion (page 347) Primary Sources of Information (page 353) Index (page 359)