This ad for Martin's Studio was in the 26th Annual Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament Program. Carol Martin shot the cover of that program. On his blog, Jim Schlosser made the following comments about Martin:"The studio prided itself on versatility. Martin and Miller shot everything from the Greensboro Debutante Ball to the arrival of a new tractor-trailer truck at a local trucking terminal.
Martin, as the News & Record's first photographer starting in 1937, took early photos of what's now the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro golf tournament. He was later joined by Miller. They often shot from a platform atop the studio's "woodie" station wagon.
Their photos make for a visual history of Greensboro starting from the late 1930s until well into the 1980s, when both photographers began to slow down with age.
Nothing missed their lens, including the opening of the first McDonald's in North Carolina on Summit Avenue in the late 1950s.
After the studio closed and just before his death, Martin donated more than 350,000 negatives he and Miller had shot to the Greensboro Historical Museum."
This excerpt was taken from the following link. To learn more about Carol Martin go to Jim Schlosser's blog at
http://blog.news-record.com/staff/architecture/
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