A HUSKY CREW 



COLLEGE MEN AS "TRAMP 

 PHOTOGRAPHERS 



By E. A. SPEARS (Cornell, '07) 



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College men often find it hard to get 

 work to do for the summer, and even 

 when work is found, poor pay and a 

 poor job is often the result. After a bit 

 of experience I am convinced that there 

 is a good opening in picture taking in 

 the country districts. The profits are 

 fairly large and the time is well spent 

 in the healthful country. Moreover, it 

 is a good experience and there is fun 

 in it, too. 



"Dolph," my companion, and myself 

 did the "stunt" in the Adirondacks. We 

 went to three lumber camps and stopped 

 at the houses of the backwoodsmen. It 

 was a short trip of four days, but it was 

 long enough to show what can be done. 



Our camera used a plate four by five 

 inches. We took along all things neces- 



sary to develop and finish the pictures, 

 figuring that if the woodsman could see 

 the pictures he was to get he would buy 

 more of them. We were right. We had 

 a multiple plate holder, holding a dozen 

 plates, and two double plate holders, en- 

 abling us to take sixteen plates without 

 reloading. For clothes we did away 

 with white stand-up collars, and all that 

 goes with them, and put on cotton shirts 

 and some old trousers that were held up 

 by visible suspenders. Our dress was not 

 different from the native costume. We 

 knew that we could better mix with the 

 people if we did not appear too different 

 — they would not be so bashful about 

 having their pictures taken. We loaded 

 our stuff in a couple of pack baskets 

 of the variety which the Adirondack 



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