America by the Yard – Cirkut Camera, Images from the Twentieth Century: Images from the Early Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Mackay, Robert B

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393051609 ISBN 13: 9780393051605

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

This book is both a history of an unusual camera and a splendid display of its product. "Yard longs," as the Cirkut camera's huge panoramic photographs were called, caused a sensation after the camera's introduction in the early twentieth century. Cirkut cameras were used to record scenic vistas, epic events, and group photographs of conventioneers, workers, soldiers, and students. Here, with many foldouts that show the prints in their full glory, are such historic moments as the building of the Panama Canal, the sunken battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, the crash of the dirigible Shenandoah, the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the 1908 Wellesley graduating class, and a very early race at the Indianapolis Speedway. More mundane subjects-a bathing beauty contest, locomotive factory workers-are equally fascinating in this format. Collectively these panoramas form a remarkable portrait of America at the turn of the last century.

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Product Description:

Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ

Synopsis:

With its astonishing collection of American early panoramic photographs, this book is both a history of an unusual camera and a splendid display of what it produced. Cirkut cameras were used to record scenic vistas, gatherings and epic events. Here, with many fold-outs that show the prints in their full glory, are such historic moments as the building of the Panama Canal, the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the 1908 Wellesley graduating class, along with more mundane but equally fascinating subjects.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393051609
• ISBN 13: 9780393051605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232