Frederick Eugene Ives

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An 1898 color stereophotograph by Frederick Ives, as reconstructed from the negatives.^[1]

The three negatives for the above stereophotograph.

Frederick Eugene Ives (1856–1937) was a U.S. inventor, born at Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1874–78 he had charge of the photographic laboratory at Cornell University. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was one of the founding members, in 1885, of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.^[2]

[edit] Color photography

Ives was a pioneer of colour photography, and demonstrated a system of natural color photography at the 1885 Novelties Exposition of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.^[1]

His son Herbert E. Ives was a pioneer of telephotography and television, including color facsimile.

[edit] Half-tone printing

Although he held a patent for the half-tone letterpress as of 1878, the half-tone photoengraving process was first invented by Canadians George Edouard Desbarats and William Leggo. The process was first employed in 1869 in the Canadian Illustrated News.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Louis Walton Sipley, A Half Century of Color, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951.
2. ^ Photographic Society of Philadelphia offical website.

[edit] External links

• Ives papers at the Smithsonian

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