{"id":20841,"date":"2021-06-19T01:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T05:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20841"},"modified":"2021-06-18T01:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T05:21:47","slug":"hooray-for-the-old-b-and-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hooray-for-the-old-b-and-j\/","title":{"rendered":"hooray for the old B and J"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ad for the B&J press camera and Solar enlargers – summer of ’43<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. If you believe this old advertisement from August 1943’s Popular Photography magazine, familiar scenes and family snaps were doubly welcomed by America’s fighting men when taken with a 4×5 B&J press camera<\/a> or were enlarged with a B&J Solar enlarger.<\/p>\n

In reality, B&J press cameras were second to the mighty Speed Graphic and Graflex cameras of the day.<\/p>\n

While I don’t know which American enlarger was most popular, I doubt B&J Solar was at the top of the heap (I had a B&J enlarger at one time). In any case, this ad encouraged photographers – amateur and professional – on the home front to support America’s men at war (the bombing of Pearl Harbor<\/a> in December 1941 and the alliance between Japan and Germany finally succeeded in pulling America into WW2).<\/p>\n

Note: My post title is a riff on the famous civil war tune, “The Hurrah for the Red, White, and Blue<\/a>“. Also, an earlier post shows Weegee’s Speed Graphic<\/a>, not the B&J he touts above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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