Page 9 - All About History - Issue 28-15

HISTORY IN PICTURES

A MAMMOTH MOMENT
US photographer George R Lawrence poses with the world’s
largest camera ‘the Mammoth’, built to photograph the
Alton Limited train. The camera used an eight-foot by four-
and-a-half-foot glass plate, weighed 900 pounds and
needed 15 people to lift it. Mainly a marketing ploy
by the railway company, three prints were sent
to the Paris Exposition to showcase both
the train and the camera.
1900

© Alamy

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