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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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es inthe various monthlies, and have also exchangedslides with some of them. For all of this there is still a largefield open to many who have not yet become interested in thismost fascinating pursuit. I trust the few pictures illustratingthis article will enlist more recruits. Last spring just previous to the opening of the 250th anni-versary of the founding of Newark I was asked to go toPrinceton, N. J., and make two views of the battlefield toillustrate The Battlefields of New Jersey. 162 The day selected was fine when I left Newark, but by thetime I arrived at Princeton the wind came up strong and in anhours time reached the proportions of a gale. Hgwever, Icontinued on my journey to the battlefield. This took meabout forty-five minutes to reach by walking, following thedirections given me by a policeman, when, if I had onlyknown it beforehand, I could have taken a trolley to within sixhundred feet of where I wanted to go. The first view I came to was the monument marking the site
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Figure 3House Where Gen. Mercer Was Taken After Being Wounded. where General Mercer was wounded. This appeared to beon private grounds. It was poorly located to be taken fromthe road and after studying it for a while I played safe byinquiring at the house if there would be any objections to mygoing inside the grounds. There was none, so I took Figure i.Moving on I came to Figure 2. This was in such an ex-posed place that I was unable to take it owing to the strongwind. Afterwards I took this on my way back, but wasforced to make use of my shoulder strap, which I attached tothe tripod head, placing my foot in a loop on the other end. I 163 had not bettered conditions any by leaving it, as the wind wasblowing at the rate of forty miles an hour, and it was thenlate in the afternoon. Figure 3 is the true front of the Hale house where GeneralMercer was taken after being wounded. This was easy toobtain as I was sheltered from the wind by outbuildings. Figure 4, the old Quaker meeting house,

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