SIMPSONTYPE

In May 1866 photographer and importer Bernard Goode (q.v.) advertised for sale ‘materials for the new Simpsontype process,’ and four months later was using the process himself. ‘Mr B. Goode has sent to our office some well-executed photographs of the late infant musician Molteno, and of the chair recently made by Messrs P. Gay & Son for His Worship the Mayor. One of the pictures, styled a Simpsontype, may by a simple contrivance be viewed as a transparency.’

The Simpsontype was introduced by George Wharton Simpson in 1864. It was a printing-out paper which had a sensitive coating of silver-chloride in collodion, but the same coating was also used to produce positive pictures on opal glass, and this appears to be the process used by Goode. The Simpsontype gained little acceptance overseas, and although E.J. Wivell (q.v.) advertised the process while he was at Kapunda in 1869, he may not have used it.

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