Photo assistant Marcus Sparling, seated on Roger Fenton’s photographic van, 1855. Fenton used this mobile darkroom to cover the Crimean War for a publishing company with assistance from the British government. Photo from the U.S. Library of Congress Fenton collection.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 12:00 pm ET by Daryl Lang and is filed under History, Vehicles.