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The Photographic Times. Volume VI. January (No. 61) - December (No. 72), Scovill Manufacturing Company, New York, 1876. 282 p including many adverts, half leather binding measuring 10 x 6.5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Boards moderately scuffed at edges and corners. Head and tail of spine lacking (including headbands). Leather spine exhibits desiccation & chipped, exposed binding. Hinges cracked; boards attached via cording only. Ex-library bookplate on front paste-down: "Yale University Library." Ex-library permanent ink stamps found sporadically throughout text-block. Front fly-leaf split at head and tail of gutter, almost detached. Ex-library ink stamps, & marginalia found on title page. Normal toning throughout text-block, mostly at edges of leaves. Binding remains intact, but is very fragile. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Founded originally under the name Abel Porter & Co. in 1802, the Scovill Manufacturing Company was officially formed in 1850 when owners James and William H. Scovill consolidated the successful button operation and created a joint stock corporation. Located in Waterbury, Connecticut, the company produced metal plates for daguerreotype photographs, brass lamps, artillery munitions, and coin blanks for the United States Mint, in addition to the brass buttons that they were known for. Washington Irving Adams, (1832-1896) who joined the Scovill company in 1858 and was its manager in charge of the photographic department, part of the first American manufacturer that made the silver-plated sheets of copper used for Daguerreotypes beginning in 1842, made the suggestion for a new trade monthly that would eventually grow into becoming America s most important and widely-circulated photographic journal, one that appeared under its own name from 1871-1915. William Scovill s son-in-law Frederick J. Kingsbury (who created the city s motto, Quid aere perennius) became president of Scovill Manufacturing in 1868, but the driving force of the company was soon acknowledged to be two men hired as bookkeepers in 1862: Chauncey Porter Goss and Mark Leavenworth Sperry. Like the Scovill brothers before them, Goss and Sperry worked well as a team and were described later in a company history as representing the drive, the true entrepreneurship of Scovill Manufacturing. They quickly proved their worth to the company and became upper management in only a few years Goss became treasurer in 1866 and Sperry became secretary in 1869, and both joined the board of directors in 1877. Kingsbury entrusted them with the daily operations and management of the company while he occupied himself largely with outside interests. Volume VI (complete year 1876). RAREA1876BNOZ - 05/23 FORN-TUB-0067-BB-2502-HKREV472.
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