Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beard and some young women in slippers answered their call. So did others less adorned. Cheerfully the witnesses ranged themselves around. Susie slipped off her kimono but kept hold of her bouquet. Preacher Irvine mounted a box. Bride & groom exchanged their vows in the sight of Nature and a camera...
...college professors that we should consider this charming novel of travel brought to us by Dr. Walter Starkie, professor of Spanish at the University of Dublin, an invigorating experience. In Raggle Taggle, an crudite man of letters doffs his pedagogical trimmings and sets out with a fiddle and a camera on an audacious tramp through the rougher regions of the Balkan countries. From its beginning this fascinating tale is one continuous entertainment, expounding adventure after adventure among the dark-skinned, musical vagabonds of Europe's gypsy clans. It is most amusing to see our pedant brushing elbows with the more...
Three or four years ago when every long-distance flight or airline merger made front page news, the public was well aware of the name of Fairchild. Besides being the name of the world's most famed aerial camera, it denoted a good airplane. Fairchild cabin jobs flew mail & passengers, flew prospectors to Canadian gold fields, news photographers to disaster scenes. Like nearly everything else in aviation Fairchild had its slump. As a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. it lost $2,100,000 in 1929, $870,000 in 1930. Next year Sherman Mills Fairchild, its shrewd young president, pulled...
...Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Massachusetts, the Blue Hills Observatory in Milton, and Hopkinton, about 25 miles west of Boston, in order that the height, as well as the course of the meteors may be computed. The meteors will be recorded by the naked eye, the telescope, and camera, from 12 o'clock until dawn, but the weary hours of watching will be relieved by rest spells and refreshments...
...metallic art as an instrument of high irony. Brady is far less self conscious as an artist than the usual photographic contributors to this magazine, and the clearness of his tones, achieved without the sacrifice of beauty, is surprising for one who worked in so early a stage of camera development...