sketch from Photographic Mosaics, 1899 edition
Toronto. In issue 17-2 the late Robert Wilson has a column titled, “Pages From the Past”, This particular column’s article is titled, “Tele-Photo Combinations By C. Francis Jenkins”.
The article is reprinted from, “Photographic Mosaics published in Washington, D.C. by Edward L. Wilson and in its thirty-fifth year when this volume was printed. Wilson described it as “an annual record of photographic progress”. The following appeared in that 1899 edition and describes one way of obtaining very large magnifications – if you have a number of long bellows view cameras lying around.”
Shades of Gigapixel! To read this story (which members read in the printed version of the journal and today’s members can now read in the pdf version), just grab the issue 17-2 pdf file on the DVD. This PHSC members only DVD (with volumes 1-40 of our journal) goes free to all members. Join the PHSC today by following either ‘MEMBERSHIP’ above or ‘Membership – Join or Renew’ at the right. It’s easy and inexpensive! Meet other camera collectors, photo collectors, photo historians, etc.. Questions? Email Lilianne at member@phsc.ca.
