all that’s fit to photograph

Graflex ad in the December 1946 issue of Pop Photography

Toronto. The best known press cameras according to Hollywood seem to be the ubiquitous Speed Graphic models. This ad from the December, 1946  issue of Popular Photography [link repeated here for the viewer’s convenience]  suggests why.

My thanks to good friend, retired industrial photographer/videographer, and PHSC member, George Dunbar, for sharing his interesting find with us.

NB. The title of this post is a riff on one of the most famous ‘catch phrases’ in Newspaper History, “All the News That’s Fit to Print“. Owner of the NY Times, Adolph Ochs, coined it in 1897 and it remains the slogan of the NY Times newspaper today.

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