Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/06

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Subject: [Leica] Timeline on the History of Photography
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu Dec 6 09:02:11 2007
References: <200711201652.lAKGp191017517@server1.waverley.reid.org> <47582652.3090803@concentric.net>

This page indicates that Preim is indeed almost as old as photography
itself.

http://www.mon-numerique.com/index.php?pid=3

They had a photo fair in October to celebrate.

On Dec 6, 2007 10:41 AM, Robert D. Baron <robertbaron1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 5 2007 Jim Nichols writes:
>
> > On the Rootsweb genealogy site, I found a link to a "History of
> Photography"
> > that I found interesting.  Though Leica and Barnack are not mentioned by
> > name, I thought some of you might be interested in seeing it.
> >
> >
> http://home.earthlink.net/~genealogyplanet/galleries_history_of_photography1.html
>
> Interesting, thanks for posting.
>
> This coincidentally coincides with a snapshot one of my daughters just
> sent to me.  She was in Germany last week on a short holiday trip and
> took this photo of a Leica dealership in Aachen, about an hour by train
> north of Cologne.  The sign appears to proclaim the store dates back to
> 1882, which we both found a bit curious:
>
> http://www.bobbaron.com/temp/W_OldCameraStore.jpg
>
> --Bob
>
>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA

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