As a 23-year-old bank clerk, George Eastman bought his first camera and began simplifying the cumbersome and messy wet plate process. He soon patented a dry plate coating machine, began selling photographic plates, and started his own company. In the first new biography of Eastman since 1930, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the American innovator, portraying him as, among other things, an art lover, a world traveler, and philanthropist. 60 illustrations.
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As a 23-year-old bank clerk, George Eastman bought his first camera and began simplifying the cumbersome and messy wet plate process. He soon patented a dry plate coating machine, began selling photographic plates, and started his own company. In the first new biography of Eastman since 1930, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the American innovator, portraying him as, among other things, an art lover, a world traveler, and philanthropist. 60 illustrations.
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GOOD. JACKET: FAIR+ 7 X 10. Ex-Public Library. Pictorial dust jacket: edge wear, laminated dust jacket heavily creased, few soil marks, flaps taped to the boards, reference sticker on the bottom of the spine. Boards: edge wear, corner bumps, tape from the dust jacket flaps on the front/back boards. Interior: rubber stamp/few numbers in red ink on the first title page, discoloration to the page edges, discard rubber stamp over a bar code sticker on the back free end paper, top layer of free end paper removed. _PAB_
