From: Les Newcomer (lnphoto@ismi.net)
Date: 04/16/00-05:00:03 PM Z
Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
> AFAIK, the first gas-light paper was the original Velox, invented by
> Baekeland.
<snip>
I've got an American Photography from 1912 that lists Velox as a gaslight paper
from the Nepera Division of EKc. I asume that Baekeland was behind Nepera, that
was swallowed up by the Microsoft of the last century.
> Koak acquired the rights at some point (they were buying up
> everybody they could) but the Velox of later years was not a gas-light
> paper but rather a fairly fast contact paper with a blue-black image tone.
> I found a reference to a gas light paper in a late 1930's book last
> night. The brand was Tuma-Gas. I think that was a San Francisco company.
> All their papers were sold under the Tuma-Gas name but they made a variety
> of types. The description of one is a gas-light paper with green image
> color.
> ----
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles,Ca.
> dickburk@ix.netcom.com
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