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Recruit Photos - 1939
What a wonderful time we live in. Cameras built into portable phones that fit in your pocket. Snap a photo and in moments its transmitted all over the planet. Wow.
But if you have a Recruit at Great Lakes there are no personal phones/cameras. Maybe maybe maybe your kid will show up in a random photo on Face Book. Maybe. If you are lucky.
Now step into the Way Back Machine and set it to the spring of 1939. That's when my dad went to Boot Camp at Great Lakes.
At that time cameras used "film" that had to be processed in a "darkroom" to produce a "negative". Through the use of smelly chemicals and special light sensitive paper, prints could be produced in vivid black & white. The lengthy procedure was something akin to medieval alchemy.
Back to Great Lakes: Soon after the Recruits were issued their uniforms in the early weeks of training, everyone turned out for a photo shoot. A couple days later the finished products were returned to the Recruits, printed not on regular photo paper, but on POST CARDS! Standard size post cards with the pictures on the front, The back had the regular post card layout: Space on the right for the address and the stamp and space on the left for a few lines of scribbled text. Stick a 1 ¢ stamp in the corner and drop it in the outgoing mail.
I'm in possession of 2 pictures post cards mailed by my dad in May of 1939.
One to his mom:
And one to his aunt:
(FWIW the buildings in the background are still standing! The group shot of Company 10 is in front of Building #4 where my mom and dad would first meet several months later.)
QUESTION: Why was this possible with primitive 1939 photographic technology, but not today? Have we progressed?
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