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We are BUYING Orotone, Goldtone, Silvertone, and D'orotone Photographs for research and cataloging. Please contact us whether you have pieces to sell or information to share.

My Most Recent eBay purchase:
E.S. Curtis Signal Fire Orotone
Price Paid $2400.00 0n 12-21-11


PREFACE
To hold an orotone is to have a sense of presence. The soft tone of natural transmitted light produces an effect that evokes feeling and emotion. A person under its influence can smell the dry air of a mountain scene and be entranced by its beauty. The natural light draws the eye to the distant horizon. The brightness flatters the sunlight in a way which a painted picture can’t mimic. The feeling of antiquity and importance put forth by this rich presentation leaves the viewer satisfied, yet these subtle images go unnoticed by the masses. Those who beheld them when they were new allowed them to disappear; as if they were living in a place of beauty, eventually the view was taken for granted. Man can only mimic nature’s greatness and beauty, the orotone achieves this by using earth’s elements to paint the image in light. The historic artists, many of which were adventurers and inventors, leave a legacy that is largely ignored. They are underdogs with vision before their time. Come with us as we explore the past and this world of photography that has been largely ignored and unknown, until now.

Recent Acquisition, A.C.Pillsbury, Roosevelt Lake & Hotel

 

Princess Angelene by Frank La Roche



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 Welcome to the Orotone pages. These photographs on glass are sometimes called orotone, D’orotone, goldtone or gold tone photographs, gold photograph on glass, and curtones. This collection contains examples by E.S. Curtis, A.C. Pillsbury Picture Company.- Yosemite, E.G. Barnhill  who claimed to have used uranium dye to obtain vibrant colors, and Lesesne of Florida, and Norman Edson of the Pacific Northwest.

A C Pillsbury Foundation
http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/

Barnhill History
http://www.lostparks.com/ancientamerica.html

Norman Edson History
http://www.vashonhistory.org/edson.html

Wikipedia Orotone Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orotone

The Orotone Research Project
We are currently seeking orotone and silvertone photographs by known and unknown photographers for research and cataloging. This is a joint project with Dusan Stulik PhD. of The Getty Conservation Institute that involves chemical composition analysis which will lead to a better understanding of this material. If you have images, printed material, or information pertaining to photographers or companies that did this type of work we are interested in talking with you. Some titles and artists include: A.C. Pillsbury Picture Company, R.H. Lesesne, Norman Edson, Edward S. Curtis, Asahel Curtis,  James Barton, Carl Moon, Frank Larouche, Dassonville, L. Bradley, Alexander Edouart, A Century of Progress Chicago World’s Fair; electrical building, travel and transportation building, Fort Dearborn. and others.
I will publish information here as it becomes available.

The album below contains images from our first visit to The Getty.
Scroll down to the other albums to see the image collection.

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Buying E.S.Curtis, Pillsbury, Barnhill, and other Orotones
Signal Fire to the Mountain God, Prayer to the Stars, Vanishing Race, Canyon de Chelly, Oasis in the Badlands, The Rush Gatherer, Old Well of Acoma, The Three Chiefs, Canyon Del Muerto, The Spirit of the Past, The Oath, Prayer to the Mystery, Etc...