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Meeting Fred Anderegg, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

It all started in June 1987. Michigan Today had arrived in the mail, a University of Michigan newspaper that carried some pictures of wonderful Byzantine mosaics. They had been photographed in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, a community that had survived some fifteen hundred years and harbors numerous treasures brought there to be hidden from the ravages of turbulent times.

Titles Relating To Fred Anderegg: A Bibliographical Note, Leo Schelbert

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A. Articles by Fred Anderegg

(1) "Agar Plate Photography," Photo Technique (October ~940), 2 pages, with four illustrations.

(2) "Aerial Negatives and Prints, Their Classification and Preservation in the United States," Transactions, American Geophysical Union 28, No. 4 (August 1947): 523-527. (Notation, p. 527: 11Manuscript received May 7, 1947; presented at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1947; open for formal discussion until January 1, 1948.")

Fred Anderegg: Of Course He's On Edge, He's A Second-Story Man, Suzanne Ramljak

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Fred Anderegg's conversation is full of colorful anecdotes, which is to be expected from a gregarious archeological photographer whose job has been to take the ideal picture, in less than ideal circumstances, all over the globe.

On Becoming An Archaeologrical Photographer, Fred Anderegg

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The normal and simplest way to become an archaeological photographer is to take courses in photography and some in archaeology--then go out in the field with a good director and get practice.