Before digital popularity and smartphones, here below is a collection of interesting photos from Steve Given that shows women with their vintage cameras in the past.
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| French photographer and her whole plate tailboard camera, circa 1900s |
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| Lady with a large Kodak folding camera, circa 1910s |
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| A woman in swimsuit holding her Ansco Box camera, circa 1920s |
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| Woman with her Argus A 35mm camera, circa 1930s |
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| Joan Davis, a 20th Century Fox comedy actress, with a Zeiss Ikon folding plate camera on an overkill tripod during November 1939 |
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| A United States Women's Army Corps Photographer with an Argus (Brick) camera, circa 1940s |
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| A young woman in shorts is using her Kodak Six-16 Brownie Junior camera, circa 1940s |
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| Lady with a Graflex Super D camera, circa early 1940s |
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| Young lady with a Kodak Brownie Special Six-20 camera, circa 1940s |
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| United States Army nurse of 44 Evac. Hospital with her Zeiss Ikonta camera during June 1944 |
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| United States Army photographer lass using the sports finder frame of her Graflex camera, circa 1944 |
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| While undergoing training, United States military photographers practice with the Graflex camera during May 1944 |
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| A beautiful woman holding her Polaroid Highlander camera while smiling, circa 1950s |
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| A young woman holding her Leica 35mm camera, circa 1950s |
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| An obvious eye-catcher touring the Mediterranean with a 35mm Leica camera, circa 1950s |
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| Lady with a Leica, somewhere in England, circa 1950s |
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| Three women with Kodak Brownie box cameras, including a Six-20 Brownie D, a Six-20 Brownie Junior, and a Six-20 Brownie C, circa 1950s |
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| Woman is shooting with a Leica camera, somewhere in England, circa 1950s |
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| Margaret Truman, daughter of the former President, Harry S. Truman, displays her skills with a Graflex camera. She borrowed the camera from pressmen during a function at the Conrad Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, during September 1953 |
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| A nice looking '60s girl shows off her nice looking Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex camera |
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| Girl with a Ihagee Exacta 35mm camera at beach, circa 1960s |
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| Maxine Sullivan, of Melbourne, Australia, with a Petri 35mm camera, and a typical teen coiffure during the 1960s |
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| Norma, a normally topless model, with her Nikon F 35mm camera, circa 1960s |
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| Twins, LaVona and LaVelda Rowe who were press photographers for the Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper with their Graflex cameras, February 1961 |
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| Roberta Woolley, an English actress visiting Chicago, Illinois in March 1964, sports a 35mm Corfield Periflex camera and a Weston Master light meter |
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| Actress Arlean Dahl with an AMP 8mm Sound movie camera during October 1968 |
