Chapter I: Front Matter

CAPTAIN KODAK

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CAPTAIN KODAK

_A CAMERA STORY_

By

Alexander Black
Author of “Miss Jerry,” “Miss
America,” “The Story of Ohio,”
etc. · · · · · · · · ·
With Photographic
Illustrations by the
Author · · · ·

_BOSTON_
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY

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COPYRIGHT, 1899,
BY
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY

_THIRD EDITION_

Plimpton Press
H. M. PLIMPTON & CO., PRINTERS & BINDERS,
NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A.
TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & CO., NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A.

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To My Boys
CARL AND MALCOLM

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_A WORD AT THE
BEGINNING_

_IN the olden days people peered about in the world for the fountain of perpetual youth. Nowadays they are wiser. They find a hobby—an enthusiasm, by which the old are made young and the young are made wise and happy._ _This is the story of the camera hobby; of an amateur photographer and his chums; of a boy’s adventures in the company of his camera; of a camera club and the old and young brought_ _together by the influence of a common interest; of journeys in search of the picturesque; of problems, struggles, and surprises._ _The pictures are not by any means always intended to show my readers how photographs should be made, but rather to suggest the interest of familiar and accessible things, and that the best thing about a photograph is not always the thing we wished or expected to put in it._ _For assistance in the form of pictures at the Montauk camp I am indebted to my friend, Mr. Walter Hammitt._

_A. B._

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE COMING OF THE CAMERA 13
II. THE FIRE 33
III. UNDER THE RED LAMP 43
IV. AN ILL-KEPT SECRET 53
V. THE DARK-ROOM MYSTERY 65
VI. DETECTIVE DOBBS 73
VII. IN NEW YORK 91
VIII. TWO ARRESTS 101
IX. GREAT EXPECTATIONS 115
X. THE CAMERA CLUB 129
XI. AT CONEY ISLAND 151
XII. BIG WOLF AND COMPANY 165
XIII. A TOUCH-DOWN 179
XIV. THE SAILING OF THE “ARABELLA” 191
XV. A CHANGED SKY 203
XVI. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR 225
XVII. WINTER DAYS 241
XVIII. ECHOES OF WAR 255
XIX. RETURNED HEROES 271

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CAPTAIN KODAK.