Fifty Photographs: selections from SCUA collections

Abby F. Blanchard on a card punch machine

by C.P. Blanchard, ca.1895

Technologies of reproduction collide in this 1890s image from Brookfield, Mass. With one of the first practical amateur cameras using flexible film stock, the Kodak 2, C.P. Blanchard captured his daughter hard at work on a card punch machine, probably used in textile production.