Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — The Camera Today. [ARTICLE]

The Camera Today.

Thirty years ngo a camera was a rarity, says tho World’s Work. The enthusiast who possessed one carried a mountain of traps afield and smoth ered In a tent during his tedious man Ipulatlon of the wet plates. Last year the United States alone made 30U,000 cameras, worklng’iwlth the njsre pressure of a bulb or button, and the photographic business reached the respectable commercial total of |20,0(10,000.