Frederic Eugene Ives
American inventor (1856-1937) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 81
Frederic Eugene Ives was a U.S. inventor who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1874-78 he had charge of the photographic laboratory at Cornell University. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where in 1885 he was one of the founding members of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
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Ives inserting a Kromogram into a Junior Kromskop, circa 1899
An Ives Kromogram issued in 1897
Kromogram stereo portrait of Mr. Robinson, taken by Ives for William James Herschel, c. 1898.
Advertisement for plastigrams, 1924
Kromogram of Ida Saxton McKinley, first lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901. Taken by Frederic E. Ives and William Nicholson Jennings.Awards
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He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1893, the Edward Longstreth Medal in 1903, and the John Scott Medal in 1887, 1890, 1904 and 1906. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1922. His son Herbert E. Ives was a pioneer of television and telephotography, including color facsimile.
