Empire  State  Notables

FOREWORD
 

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Again, plates produced, as modern engravings are
made, largely by photography on sensitized metal, from a
photograph which is itself an absolute reproduction, and
cannot vary from the original, have a uniformity and truth¬
fulness impossible to the unaided human hand.

This book embraces within its covers the largest and
most comprehensive collection of portraits ever published
in one single volume in the world.

The subjects have been chosen in the very broadest
sense. They are those, who wherever born or reared, in
business or connections, in social life or in politics, are
parts of the fabric of the great Empire State.

The uses of this work are many. It will be of constant
use and reference in newspaper offices and in Libraries, in
homes and in places of business.

The photographs themselves are examples of high
class work, and include productions from the Studios of
J. G. Gessford, a photographic artist of the first rank; George
Prince, formerly of Washington, who has personally posed
and photographed every President of the United States
from Andrew Johnson to Woodrow Wilson, Pirie Mac-
Donald, Marceau, Sarony, Pach Bros., Stein, White, Davis &
Sanford, Lippincott, Campbell Studios, Alman & Co., Aime
Dupont, Underwood & Underw^ood, and the Lifshey Galleries
of Brooklyn.

The publisher is especially indebted, for able and loyal
guidance, through many pitfalls and bitter assaults, to his
counsel, Mr. Bernard Bobinson and Mr. Joseph E. Lauber,
of the law firm of Bobinson & Lauber, who not only wisely
and vigorously defended him, but cheered the darkest day
with a warm spirit of personal friendliness and kindliness,
which can never be fully appreciated nor forgotten.