(opening the autographic window let in too much light and blurred the overall image because of this increased sensitivity), and production of the autographic family ended by the mid‐1930s. I had started researching autographic cameras simply hoping that I would learn more about the camera in my hand, not realizing that this research might make a difference in other places, too. However, reading about the autographic system, I realized that I actually had an example of it at work in my family photograph collection in a picture whose clearly handwritten caption seemed to be part of the printed image had always bafSled Unknown photographer. [Image of Ethel Kalisch]. 1929? In possession of Rebecca Fenning. ]
me. Now I had an answer as to what it was! This is the only example in my collection of a photograph whose taker made use of his or her camera's autographic function. This isn't to say I don't possess any other pictures taken with an autographic camera, though, because of course you could (and can) take perfectly normal pictures on regular or a u t o g r a p h i c S i l m w i t h a n autographic camera, if you didn't feel like writing anything.
My grandmother Ethel Kalisch, in “Hirshey” [sic], Pennsylvania, 1929?
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