The American annual of photography

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Identifier: americanannualof1917newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Figure 5.APHRODITE BUTTERFLIES ON BLACK-EYED SUSANS. lit on a stem-branch of the Jimson Weed—one that had goneto seed. This beautiful insect is not uncommon in the imme-diate suburbs of Washington and the adjacent country, thoughperhaps not as abundant as its cousin, the familiar big, yellowand black fellow, the common Tiger Swallowtail (Papilioturnus). Sometimes we meet with butterflies that, when they alight. 178
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Figure 6.THE SHOWY LITTLE BALTIMORE. have the habit of raising the abdominal part of the body upbetween the inferior wings. An example of this is seen inFigure 5, which presents a pair of Aphrodite butterflies(Argynnis aphrodite), and which I photographed during thesummer of 1915 on a beautiful specimen of the commonBlack-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). This is a very nervousspecies of butterfly, and takes flight when you least expect it— 179 a fact to be looked out for in that a plate may not be spoiled. An artistic as well as useful result was obtained when, theother day, I succeeded in obtaining a good negative of theBaltimore butterfly, here reproduced in Figure 6. It is abrilliant little species, and this is the first and only specimen Ihave ever captured of it. It likewise is very restless andnervous—that is, after being taken captive. This one flew to awindow more than thirty times before I could get it to restpeacefully on the leaf, where I finally succeeded in making anexpo

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