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Arts and Sciences, Volume 5, 1941. Dedicated to the American Museum of Photography.
Arts and Sciences, Volume 5, 1941. Dedicated to the American Museum of Photography.
Pennsylvania Arts & Sciences Society, 1941. Edited by Louis Walton Sipley, assisted by Margaret L. Brady. Clothbound, 100 pages. An excellent overview of Philadelphia's American Museum of Photography directed by Sipley, including descriptions of 19th and 20th century collections, most of which are now at the George Eastman Museum, and interesting facts about the history of photography. Illustrations by Elias Goldensky, Harold E. Edgerton, J.W. Black, Martin Hyman, William N. Jennings, Paul Arno Mann, William Henry Jackson, et al. Group portrait of museum board members, including Goldensky and Sipley. Photograph of William Henry Jackson visiting museum with Caspar Briggs, et al. Photograph of Goldensky pretending to take a daguerreotype of Elizabeth Williams. Includes directory of Philadelphia professional photographers in 1941, with notes about their practice. Fine, with just a trace of wear at bottom of spine.