Equal Before the Lens
Equal Before the Lens

Author: Barbara McCandless

Publisher: TAMU Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13:

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This album of historical photographs from a small Texas town captures for all time the various ethnic groups and immigrants who lived there from 1925 to 1945. From the late 1800s, almost every town in America supported at least one commercial photographer who inadvertently documented its history through formal portraits and special assignments around the community. Over the course of his career, Trlica, [son of] a Czech immigrant[s], built a similar visual archive of the social life of his adopted home of Granger, Texas. McCandless has done a very good job of selecting, arranging, and interpreting the photographs, all of which are reproduced in duotone. The result is a lovely and intriguing book. Equal Before the Lens will be of obvious interest and value in regional collections. However, because it deals with an overlooked area in American studies, it also deserves a place in social history and documentary photography collections. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries. - Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, Ill. ©1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Opticalman 3 & 2
Opticalman 3 & 2

Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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Theories and practical skills for use in optical shops are presented in this rate training manual, prepared for regular navy and naval reserve personnel. Light theories are analyzed in connection with mirrors, prisms, lenses, and basic optical systems. Following fundamentals of mechanical design and construction, maintenance procedures are studied to give a general knowledge of optical repair. Special descriptions are made of such instruments as spyglasses, telescopes, magnetic compasses, azimuth and bearing circles, sextants, stadimeters, telescopic alidades, binoculars, submarine periscopes, and night vision sights. To give enough background for readers, operations of lathes, grinders, milling machines, and drill presses are also discussed. Besides illustrations for explanation purposes, information on the opticalman rating structure is also provided.

The Photographic Journal
The Photographic Journal

Author: George Shadbolt

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-03-01

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13: 3382309246

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.