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The lure of the camera

Olcott, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1864-1935 · 1914 · Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company · 36 pictures

A 1914 Boston travel-and-photography book by Charles S. Olcott, illustrated with halftone reproductions of his own camera views for general readers interested in travel and amateur photography. The four plates are rotated sideways on the page and show tree-lined houses, a manor garden, a lake with boats and mountains, and a rectory with clipped hedges, offering a designer tree-framed architectural views and soft-toned landscape compositions for period-style layouts.

Olcott, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1864-1935 · Voyages and travels · Photography

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