The American annual of photography . NEGATIVE MADE ATDEMONSTRATION BEFORETHE NATIONAL CONVENTION.(Milwaukee, 1910.) William Shewell Ellis. THE PHOTOGRAPHING OF HISTORICAL PLACES By WM. H. T is strange that America has not followed in thefootsteps of the Royal Photographic Record So-ciety of England. The object of this society isthe collection and preservation of photographsof places and buildings possessing an historicalinterest. These photographs are deposited in the British Mu-seum, and any one desiring to see them can readily do so. Amateurs, mostly, could do a wonderful thing f
The American annual of photography . NEGATIVE MADE ATDEMONSTRATION BEFORETHE NATIONAL CONVENTION.(Milwaukee, 1910.) William Shewell Ellis. THE PHOTOGRAPHING OF HISTORICAL PLACES By WM. H. T is strange that America has not followed in thefootsteps of the Royal Photographic Record So-ciety of England. The object of this society isthe collection and preservation of photographsof places and buildings possessing an historicalinterest. These photographs are deposited in the British Mu-seum, and any one desiring to see them can readily do so. Amateurs, mostly, could do a wonderful thing for futuregenerations, as well as for themselves, if, instead of going offon a holiday and shooting off a dozen or more plates on alot of landscapes that, at the time, appear attractive enough,but which, a week or so later, are cast to one side and eventu-ally forgotten, they would devote their time and plates to thephotographing of places with a historical interest. Some fifteen years ago I commenced taking photographs inthe same manner that thousands of others have done. I tooktrips to the various parts of the surrounding country, photo-graphing scenes that appeared attractive, until there c
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