Someday I hope to present to my handsome grandson, Stanley Joseph Wildman, not only a scrapbook of my many columns in The SandPaper, but also a collection of photo albums containing prints of photos taken while my family vacationed on Long Beach Island. Those still photos literally span a century from before World War I to the present.
The fascinating thing about these pictures is that they also follow the history of 20th-century photography because of the different cameras used to record them. Modern photography started in 1888 with the invention of Kodak roll film cameras by George Eastman.
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