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Having my picture taken

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    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

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-cb6a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

    Record ID

    nmah_1806659

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