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Title: Watch the birdie
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated September 5, 1955 reads, "Origin of admonition is shown at Eastman Kodak's exhibition at Disneyland. Early studio photographers actually used mechanical birds, complete with squeaks when bulb was pressed, to be sure subjects were all looking in same direction. Early wet-plate camera shown is still capable of making good pictures."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00142969
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d051_f34_i8
CARL0005801422
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71998
Subject: Eastman Kodak Company
Amusement parks--California--Anaheim
Photographers--California--Anaheim
Photography--California--Anaheim
Exhibitions--California--Anaheim
Portrait photography--Posing
Mannequins (Figures)
Disneyland (Calif.)
Anaheim (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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