{"product_id":"tamaqua-then-and-now-second-edition","title":"Tamaqua Then and Now Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a collection of photographs\/postcardsÑthen and nowÑof the town of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, where I grew up. I graduated from Tamaqua Area Joint Senior High School in 1961, worked for two years at the Evening Courier, a newspaper that no longer exists, then joined the U.S. Navy. Thanks to the G.I. Bill, I was able to go to Penn State and I never really returned to Tamaqua except for visits to family.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eSo this book is a long overdue return visit. I collected old photographs and postcards of Tamaqua from many sources and then walked around town on two days in July 2009 taking new photographs of old sites. I did not use anything other than my eyes to attempt to match the new with the old. For the most part, I shot with a 10:20 lens because I believed that only a wide-angle lens would recapture the past. The camera actually captured much more than the originals, so I then cropped to more or less match.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"R. Thomas Berner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44303762129057,"sku":"9781111112478","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1w4m8842-front-shortedge-384_cbf6389d-8627-4fa0-ac8c-e3c3afa893ba.jpg?v=1748266510","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/tamaqua-then-and-now-second-edition","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}