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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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st time that I was directed, as aCorporal, to take a patrol out through varied terrain for areconnoissance. Every idea that I had imbibed at the old-style non-com schools seemed to flee. The country looked dif-ferent from our well-conned maps, and I was as helpless as afish out of water because I had never seen a patrol formed orled. And later, when I was directed to make a sketch map ofthe disposition of our platoon in an outpost, I was as helplessas I would have been if asked to describe it in Greek hex-ameters. This, I believe, was because my knowledge was en-tirely theoretical, entirely gained from books without anyappeal to the eye. Therefore when I was commissioned I began to seek a wayto get this appeal. Taking the men out for tactical walks onSundays was ideal, but possessed very obvious drawbacks.The cost was considerable, the distance to be traversed beforewe could get out of our great city was wasteful of time, anda comparatively small group could be counted on owing to 134
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w Q <O < u t—I < en gQ O 135 their civilian engagements as well as religious prejudices.Then it was that I thought of using my camera; taking mytactical walk all alone save for it and plenty of films, andmaking lantern slides for the school work. This presupposed an intimate understanding of maps, andmap-reading is one of the subjects not readily taught indoors;the chief difficulties being the lack of imagination to interpretthe maps, and the consequent ennui of the students who haveput in a hard days work already. Therefore my first task wasto teach map-reading and to teach it in such a way as to makeit interesting. For this purpose I made a lantern slide from one of thequadrangles of the U. S. Geological Surveys topographicalmaps of a varied hilly country; then made a considerable num-ber of slides of landscapes taken on that terrain showing char-acteristic features of the landscape: hills of concave or convexcurvature, saddles, peaks, etc. Throwing the map on thescreen a

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