The History Of Photography

File:The giant camera.jpg

Description English: A very large camera designed by George R. Lawrence (1868-1938) and used to photograph a train of the Chicago & Alton railroad on the Chicago-St. Louis line for the 1900 Paris Exhibition. – After the French Consul General had inspected the camera and enormous glass plate, Lawrence was awarded the Grand Prize of the World for Photographic Excellence at the Paris Exposition of 1900 for his 8 x 4 1/2 foot photograph of the Alton Limited train, promoted as The Largest Photograph in the World of the Handsomest Train in the World.[1] Date 1900 Source Historic photo via http://www.fotoart.gr/istoria/onephotoonestory/giantcamera.htm Author George Raymond Lawrence

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