Title: Photo-Era Magazine 1924 bound vol. 52 Jan.-June

The American Journal of Photography

Publication Information: Photo-Era Magazine

Additional Information: 360 pages which are numbered consecutively. All original covers were removed before issues were bound. No ads. Do not know if there were any ad pages in the issues originally that might also have been removed.. Many illustrations.

Summary: Photo-Era (1898-1932) of Boston, was an illustrated journal that served for many years as the official organ of The Federation of Photographic Societies and other organizations. The technical and art side of the profession were well represented but it was also designed for the amateurs. There is a detailed index in the front. Articles are divided up into divisions, the divisions with a sampling of the articles include:

·          Articles and Authors: Attractive Field of Photomicrography – R.L. Edmonson; An Unsuspected Cause of Pinholes; Photography and the Radio – Richard B. Chase; Double Negatives – A.M. Cleveland; Color Prints with Oil-Colors – William S. Davis Part I & II; and many more.

·          Editorials:

·          On the Groundglass: Automobile in Photography; Keeping Tabs on the Film-Pack; Optical Aberration; Wrong Titles and more

·          The Crucible: A Digest of Photo-Technical Facts

·          The Military Photographer: Interesting Series of Airplane Photographs; Is Photography of Value in national Defense?; and more

·          The Publisher’s Corner: Varity of short articles

·          News Events And Miscellaneous: Automatic Ansco Camera; Bell & Howell Amateur Motion-Picture Outfit; Is Photography an Art?; New Bell & Howell Cine Camera; New British Color-Film Invention; Origin of the Word “Kodak”; Raylo Camera Owners Can Now Do Their Own Color-Printing; and many more news articles.

Condition: Hard cover, Ex-Lib, covers show some wear and soiling; a couple library stamps one which as located on the first page of the index and the other located at the bottom of a page in the margin were removed by cutting them out so a part of the index listing is missing; the first half of the volume in the upper binding side corner has been damp and there is a stain plus the pages were stuck so some tears and light discoloring in the margin area;  text is sound with few small tears, some small soiled specks, some foxing and light age discoloring but overall a good sound copy.

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