Fair, bright, cool day. Arose 6:15 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business. Odd jobs. Dinner. Copied for father. Looked over eggs. Supper. Home in evening. To mail box. To bed 9 P.M.
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I guess Stanford had to copy documents for his father--a tedious process, to be sure, if he was doing it by hand. Ah, the joys of cheap, easy photocopying! Those days were still to come in 1922. But there was a machine to copy documents by then, although from the description, it seems a cumbersome process:
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I guess Stanford had to copy documents for his father--a tedious process, to be sure, if he was doing it by hand. Ah, the joys of cheap, easy photocopying! Those days were still to come in 1922. But there was a machine to copy documents by then, although from the description, it seems a cumbersome process:
Both Rectigraph and Photostat machines consisted of a large camera that photographed documents or papers and exposed an image directly onto rolls of sensitized photographic paper that were about 350 feet (110 m) long. A prism was placed in front of the lens to reverse the image. After a 10-second exposure, the paper was directed to developing and fixing baths, then either air- or machine-dried. The result was a negative print, which took about two minutes in total to produce, which could in turn be photographed to make any number of positive prints. (from Wikipedia)Here is an ad from 1920 that depicts the Photostat machine.
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