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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated July 29, 1963 reads, "Maybe it's because of all the current Civil War centennial celebrations, but, anyway, Selma Bland, Tarzana, secretary at the Los Angeles County Museum, joins in the fun with this enlargement of the former president. The winking Lincoln from a $5 bill reproduction is one example of 'pop art' now on display at the museum. For the price of an original traditional painting, you may acquire art works of rows of soup cans neatly stacked on supermarket shelves, an impression of a gum-ball machine or comic-book pictures. The museum in Exposition Park is currently housing a 'pop art' exhibit."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Pictorial works Los Angeles County Museum--Officials and employees Museums--California--Los Angeles Art museums--California--Los Angeles Art museums--Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles Pop art--California--Los Angeles--Exhibitions Pop art--California--Los Angeles Presidents in art Paintings Women--California--Los Angeles Winking Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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