Word: camera
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fourth annual photographic competition between the camera clubs of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania will be held in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 1. Two prizes and five honorable mentions will be awarded. The judges will be C. Yarnall Abbott, J. Horace McFarland, and a third to be appointed by them. All prints for this competition should be sent to E. S. Bryant, 56 Plympton street, before Thursday. Professor F. L. Olmsted will select the fifty pictures to be sent by Harvard to Philadelphia. All the photographs in the competition will be put on exhibition in Robinson Hall soon after...
...Fairchild opened his lecture by speaking of the value of the camera in giving permanent records for future study of scenes during strikes. He showed the camera containing 30 plates and capable of taking pictures at the rate of nearly one a second which he had constructed for this purpose. He then gave a history of the recent Albany Street Railway strike, illustrating his talk by views of strike scenes...
...will give a lecture on "Photographs of Crowds" on Monday, February 20, in the Fogg Lecture Room. Mr. Fairchild has been interested for a number of years in institutional church work and especially in the behavior of crowds under any exciting influence. To collect substantiating evidence he had a camera especially constructed for the purpose with which he has made a variable collection of photographs of crowds of strikers and other gatherings. The lecture will be of interest not so much as an exhibition of photographic work, as an exposition of this novel form of social investigation...
...Library Committee of the Union has invited the Travellers' Club, the Camera Club, and the Old Cambridge Photographic Club with their friends to inspect these photographs today between the hours of 3 and 5.30 o'clock...
Prizes and honorable mentions have been awarded as follows in the Camera Club exhibit now being held in Robinson Hall: first prize--group by T. W. Sears '07; second prize--group by M. S. McN. Watts 1G.; honorable mentions--"Fitting for the Banks" and "Prey of the Sea," by M. D. Miller 4M; "The River Road," by V. H. McCutcheon '07; "An Austrian Farmyard," by K. G. Carpenter '08; "The Old Spring House," by E. S. Bryant...