{"id":20650,"date":"2021-05-24T01:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T05:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20650"},"modified":"2021-05-21T22:58:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T02:58:18","slug":"a-marr-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-marr-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"a marr connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20651\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/T-E-Marr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20651\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20651\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/T-E-Marr-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Book on the Boston Studio of T E Marr &amp; Son<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Journal editor Bob Lansdale sent me an email he recently received from Buffalo announcing a new 110 page photographic history monograph \u00a0written by Ron Polito covering another Boston Photographic Studio (other than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southworth_%26_Hawes\">Southworth &amp; Hawes<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Rob McElroy of Buffalo, NY writes, &#8220;I just received the announcement from the Photographic Historical Society of New England (PHSNE) about a fascinating new photo history publication written by PhotoHistory member and author, Ron Polito, which is the culmination of eight years of research into the history, aesthetics and techniques of a little known father and son photographic studio, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/T_E_Marr_Son_Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_s.html?id=um1czgEACAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\">T. E. Marr (&amp; Son)<\/a>, that was founded in Boston in 1899. \u00a0All proceeds from the sale of the book benefit the Society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/phsne.org\">PHSNE<\/a> for further details, purchase options, etc. The link is to their temporary website. Alternatively you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/browse\/magazine\/876415\">their page<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magcloud.com\">MagCloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the title is a riff on the photographer&#8217;s name. Many do it yourselfers as well as all electricians know that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twist-on_wire_connector\">Marr Connectors<\/a> (generically named <em>wire nuts<\/em>) are used to join electrical wires together without a need to solder and tape the join. Ironically, these common items were patented here in the big smoke a few years before the American patent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Journal editor Bob Lansdale sent me an email he recently received from Buffalo announcing a new 110 page photographic history monograph \u00a0written by Ron Polito covering another Boston Photographic Studio (other than Southworth &amp; Hawes). Rob McElroy of Buffalo, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-marr-connection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[582,58,100,607,348],"class_list":["post-20650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-boston","tag-history","tag-photography","tag-phsne","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20650"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20654,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650\/revisions\/20654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}