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the Photos    Sister Act: 1923  Sister Act: 1923  New York circa
1923. "Brox sisters." These singing siblings made it big in
vaudeville and then on Broadway. From the left (or maybe the
right): Bobbe, Lorayne and Patricia. George Grantham Bain glass
negative. View full size.   Putting a cap on it  There are many
things that make a photograph. What those things are has changed
to be various components as the science of photography
progressed. I'm not the worlds expert, but I always thought of
the word "film" to represent the emulsion, which is applied to
some sort of substrate or base, be it glass, acetate, polyester,
nitrocellulose or cellulose.  I will acknowledge that the common
usage of the word applies to "that which you load in a camera to
take pictures". It's just