Ruth Gruber exhibit - name the camera

[marcr1230]

Ruth Gruber is 102 and has an exhibit at the illinois holocaust museum

Can anyone identify the camera she is holding?


http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/

 

[Rodchenko]

Don't know the answer, but here's a larger version of the picture:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/imager...slideshow/12488384/fe2f/RuthGruber-teaser.jpg

And here's a picture of her, it says, holding the same camera:

http://forward.com/articles/130887/a-century-of-recording-and-making-history/

 

[Rodchenko]

Oh - and thanks for prompting me to go searchng out about her. What a fascinating person!

 

[kbg32]

As far as I can tell, she is still alive. Born in 1911.

 

[rodinal]

Don't know the answer, but here's a larger version of the picture:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/imager/photojournalist-ruth-gruber-102-and-still-ahead-of-her-time/b/slideshow/12488384/fe2f/RuthGruber-teaser.jpg

And here's a picture of her, it says, holding the same camera:

http://forward.com/articles/130887/a-century-of-recording-and-making-history/

In the second picture she is holding a IIIa or IIIb. Not sure about the first picture, but looks like a different camera, IIIg ?