Object Details
Description
This is a blank color comic postcard that has not been addressed or mailed. The image depicts a photographer underneath a dark cloth behind a camera mounted on a tripod. He is taking a picture of of a small man sitting atop a very large red fish, which is propped to an upright position. The fisherman is holding his fishing rod in his right hand and his hate in the left hand.
Text across the top of the postcard reads: Having my picture taken. The big one is the fish.
The postcard has a defined texture of intersecting perpendicular lines.
Publisher is Asheville Post Card Co. in Asheville, N.C.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Wayne Hill Photographica Collection
ID Number
2016.0066.086
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0086
Object Name
picture postcard
Measurements
overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 13.97 cm
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Work and Industry: Photographic History
Photography
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1806659