{"id":45,"date":"2024-11-08T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/cavanaugh\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:28:35","slug":"argus-a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/home\/35mm-film\/argus-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Argus A c.1938-1948"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Argus A was one of the first American-made 35 mm cameras and helped popularize this film format in the United States. Cheaper than the German Leica, the Argus was the most common 35mm camera sold in America until the Kodak 35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ArgusABack-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ArgusABack-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Argus A, 1936-1941. Back of camera.\" class=\"wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/ArgusABack-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/ArgusABack-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/ArgusABack-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/ArgusABack-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/ArgusABack-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/ArgusABack-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Argus A was one of the first American-made 35 mm cameras and helped popularize this film format in the United States. Cheaper than the German Leica, the Argus was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":102,"parent":41,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/290"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}