American Photolithography Co., New York, American Agriculturist, 1866

Reduced reproduction of the title page of the December 1866 issue of "American Agriculturist for the Farm, Garden, and Household" featuring a horse in a barn.

Photolithograph, Osborne’s process. Gift of John Walter Osborne. Cat. No. 543.

John Walter Osborne invented a new type of line-transfer printing in Australia in 1859. This extreme reduction—just a few inches high—is one of numerous examples of “Osborne’s Process” in the exhibition. It was among the first  specimens Osborne printed in the United States, in 1866, the year he founded the American Photolithographic Company in New York.