Show the boyhood e of famous I 1 americans i gerald george eastman the oung oink hink clerk was in need of 0 a vacation lie lind had been working hard in the confinement 41 of a 1 bunk bank ills fits health nas poor lie planned on taking a trip to san son domingo domin 0 o here the tile unit ed states 00 OB likely to buy a dalal base according to the ile gossip of tile da dal lie told the ile engineer of the thelIn bank of tile ills liana lions the latter advised him to take a photographic outfit ft ith him this tills was uns in the day days of president grants administration ualle bile the trip neer material iced george castman the young bank batik clerk then and there began a deep study of photography lie ile had been inhere interested eted in the tile art from the time he was uns fifteen years old but until he made plans for a southern trip he hid bid applied himself to the study of the subject the result of his studies gave the world the kodak aid the tile mod land cm ern process of george Fat fatman mon was born in N I 1 in A fe few year later filter his ills father moved to rochester roche fer where lie established a commercial school teaching his pupils business methods by actual 1 the father died in george was an only con ton he ile was a 11 quiet and shy lad ind ills mother made many sacrifices to keep leep him in school until he was fourteen years old bhe bile taught him film never neer to buy anything unless he lie could pa for it alth ft ith the lie result lint ho lie aas as never neer in debt he lie got his first job as an office boy in an insurance office 1 ills wages amounted to 3 a eek he ile worked his ills way uny up gitil he lie was uns getting a beir frequently he labored over his ills books bools eleven hours a day he lie ind lid a cliance chance to become R bool bookkeeper kLeper in a savings bank at it 1000 1 a beir the boung mail t hesitate about accepting an opportunity opp tint thit brought oth it such a increase in sal nry nr ahen hen hh his kiy ris is low his ills mother had ila taken in boarders so as to keep u dec nice hoine home for her tier only son he lie uns twenty years old when he went to work in tie tunic hank he if remil ned there seven yeara dur ing which time he fie took tool up flip study of photography in contest in view of his contemplated trip to the blest indies he lie brought a camen and took lessons on the wet plate process cla class as were in use then TI thy ey ila had to bo be sensitized before a tedious process tills this meint that the phot ogra pher of the diy daiy had to airry a bulky equipment if it he worked in the field treatment of the plates made it necessary to tike it silver bath both and dark bert so ns as to prepare the properly to receive an tin image the antl dinzl took such an equipment with him on a trip to I 1 lake like superior hiell was a substitute for he file planned cd I 1 ut lit not carried out ei to sin do ills experience on his vaca raca tion showed lim im hit thit flip joys of taking could he made fallible aal lible to eiers the perfection of n process will h would mould substitute 11 and n 1 equipment for the I 1 lehv far applier an nalla and eliminate the tedious process of preparing each heanu meanwhile bile ills career in the thebinh hint wis not pro progressing to suit stilt him film the of offit fiIll lil V whose assistant lie hewis wig resigned ned his position young fist mans work ork had been most sill f bictory he lie loi looked led i murd pun con to moving niola up a notch and succeeding his kuperw Ruper for hut but he didn dian I 1 get the job the place ant to a relative reli tive of one of the directors of the institution tint thit convinced conrin ced him that he hid better get out of the dink hint as soon as p j rahle he ile determined to go on his nan nn when he lie could see his hit way uny cleir to do sn so he lie rented a room fit fr f r his hn experiments q in the he dry plate proc proe ess he lie worked hinl and intelli gently but not without the he disna point ments lint flint come to nil oil anven tor tori he ile wis uns often too ton tired fired to undress when be fie ant bent to bod bed frequently he slept from night until dav morning awil ening only to eit the moils his de oed ofed mother brought to him he ile difant didn t haic to seek seel bonev to finance his experiments ills 1114 mother had tau taught ht him thrift as a little fellow and he never forgot the le lesson leon on he ile saved 17 1710 50 the first ear he worked I 1 he le had 2500 in the bank bunk when ahen lie was uns twenty he flie years old I 1 his I 1 Is first fist equipment cost cott him VM I 1 rein thit he built the greit in du concern which oday heirs his mine rime 0 14 J 30 by the north american Amerl cia New newspaper alliance |