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Issue 32: Steve VanDenburgh, Fred Eidenbenz, Conversations

Preview of Conversations about Photography 2013, including a profile of presenter Steve VanDenburgh, written by David C. Lester. Lorenz Degen of Switzerland provides a biographical sketch and selected photographs of Fred Eidenbenz, a Swiss immigrant who photographed American railroads extensively in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Center executive director Scott Lothes offers an overview of preserving railroad photographs, including steps you can take to prepare your own photography collection for archiving and preservation.

$7.95, 24 pages, color and b/w.

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