Taking
A Picture:
The
cameras used by the Detroit Publishing Company photographers
were heavy and bulky. Instead of photographic film,
the cameras used plates of glass. The photographer would
have to wait until he got back to the studio before he
could develop the glass plates and make prints.
Salesman’s
sample book of California views, 1899. Photographed
in a horse-drawn stage wagon, Robert B. Livingstone is
holding a camera similar to the Magazine “Cyclone
3” box camera (Accession ID # 29.2267.1)
shown on the right.
