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Identifier	RGM0004-0026
Title	G. O. Burgess
Description	Portrait of G. O. Burgess, first mayor of Independence Heights
Background	During the 1880s, the use of glass as a transparent and stable base for dry photographic emulsions replaced the collodion wet plate process. Glass was the first widely implemented medium used to create a transparent photographic negative. The end product became known as the glass plate negative and became obsolete as the camera and the photograph processes evolved over time. Commonly used into the 1920s, glass plate negatives prefigured the more durable, affordable, and familiar flexible film negative.
Source	4 x 5 ; black-and-white negatives
Type	Image
Language	English
Subject Terms	African Americans--History ; Independence Heights (Houston, Tex.)--History ; African American men
Geographic Subject Terms	Independence Heights (Houston, Tex.)
Era	1915-1928
Publisher	Electronic version published by Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas.
Collection	RGM0004 Town of Independence Heights Collection 1915-1989
HPL Location	Town of Independence Heights Collection 1915-1989, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library
Related Resource	Faces, Places & Spaces. http://digital.houstonlibrary.net/virtual/faces-places/
Rights	Please contact the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston, Texas.
Date Digital	2012
Format	jpg
Digitization Specifications	800dpi ; tiff ; Epson Perfection V700 Photo
Filename	RGM0004-0026.tif

G. O. Burgess

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