{"id":31192,"date":"2025-04-10T01:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31192"},"modified":"2025-04-09T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T01:13:20","slug":"sticking-out-from-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sticking-out-from-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"pressing out from the masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31193\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/print-press.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31193\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/print-press-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">an embosser for prints<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Once studios took off, savvy owners tried ways to differentiate their services from the pack. One way to accomplish this was to use the &#8220;McKee\u2019s Cameo, Embossing and Imprint Press&#8221; on photographic prints delivered to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Issue 23-1 of our journal shows the little gem. It was offered in 1900 for $12.00US. The press made &#8220;instant embossing or imprinting without injury to the finest burnish or enamel&#8221; as the advertisement insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the press to emboss, would raise the face of the photograph and make the subject stand out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The advertisement suggested that you could, \u201cHold to your old prices, and get from 50\u00a0cents to $2.00 more per dozen for the imprint pictures.\u201d The ad encouraged studios to contact &#8220;H.A. Hyatt Photographic Supplies,\u00a0St Louis, Mo.&#8221;. No Canadian supply house or distributor was mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Our spring events are coming up fast (auction May 4th; fair May 25th). You may fine something to tweak your interest and complement your collection. A poster for each event will be pinned to this site (the auction poster is already up) as received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Once studios took off, savvy owners tried ways to differentiate their services from the pack. One way to accomplish this was to use the &#8220;McKee\u2019s Cameo, Embossing and Imprint Press&#8221; on photographic prints delivered to customers. Issue 23-1 of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sticking-out-from-the-masses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[399,4720,400,58,1014,316],"class_list":["post-31192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","tag-auction","tag-embossing","tag-fair","tag-history","tag-press","tag-prints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31196,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192\/revisions\/31196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}