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From behind the anonymity of their credit line, which appears under photographs of every conceivable nature in U. S. newspapers, magazines, textbooks, albums, the Brothers Elmer and Bert Underwood stepped out to announce that they had sold control of their firm to seven younger executives...
...Underwood dynasty will not die, for among the seven purchasers who have been running the business since the brothers retired five years ago, are two more Underwoods, each a vice president: C. Thomas, son of Elmer; E. Roy, son of Bert. The other new owners are President Ben D. Jennings, Laurence E. Rubel, Artist-Illustrator Lejaren 'a Killer, M. D. Behrend, Leo G. Hessler...
Forty-eight years ago, peddling books from door to door in Kansas, Bert and Elmer Underwood threw up their jobs. They had discovered that stereoscopic pictures sold much quicker than books. In another year they had canvassers all over the Midwest selling those double-ended postcards which nice people used to slide into felt lined holders and peer at through the marvelous lenses that showed you the real Matterhorn, the actual "Scene at Brighton Beach." Aware that prosperity lay in "World Educational" pictures, the brothers shouldered their bulky cameras and in 1896 went to Europe. They "did" Egypt, Palestine...
...year 1898 found Brother Bert in Thessaly, where Greece and Turkey were at war. The war-ravaged territory suggested the idea of a newspicture service. Bert worked his way back to Athens, developed his plates, sent the prints on to Brother Elmer in London. Elmer made a layout, sold it to the London Illustrated News for 60 guineas ($307). The idea was so novel that he got $300 more from a New York paper for the same scenes. Thus began the first newspaper picture service...
...hard, darting, practical glance of Congressman Bertrand ("Bert") Snell the House of Commons must have teemed with curious contrasts. In his own semicircular House of Representatives, for example, males and females sit hatless as in a theatre, facing the "well" beyond which rises Speaker Nicholas Longworth's rostrum. They may not eat, drink or smoke, but may address the House in Spanish?language of the Philippines...