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merrillpublishingassociates.com). Soft- cover, 122 8¹⁄₂″×11″ pages; $29.95 plus $3.95 shipping to U.S. addresses. Photography was once the exclusive realm of professionals and their cumber- some cameras with people stiffly posed for wedding portraits, baptisms and the like, the taking of the photo as much a
singular event as the occasion itself, and when the photographer went into the field to capture scenes of the city, coun- tryside or nature he hauled a studio along in a wagon. George Eastman changed that, and the common man (well, the more comfortable end of com- mon) could access the art and thrill of photography without being a chemist. The first Kodak cameras for popular use came in 1888 and the 1890’s, then in 1900 the famous “Brownie” arrived on the market. The doorway to photogra- phy was open. People embraced cameras then as now, and the photo album cer- tainly followed soon after. Family albums, taking the form of those familiar pages of soft, black paper bound between thick covers secured by a shoelace, became part of life. By de- fault they were organized chronological- ly, and hopefully they remained intact to be passed down to the next genera- tion. As photography became more pop- ular people turned to taking more than family pictures. A hobby was born. Even if the prints were not pasted onto pages they became albums of sorts. Not only did they record faces and places, they showed what was interesting and im- portant to the person behind the lens. For Roy Campbell, as for most of us, one of the important things was railroading. Important for us, now living in the sec- ond decade of the twentieth first centu-
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