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Saluting World Photo Day with a glimpse of life in Buzzards Bay, MA (LOC)

Saluting World Photo Day with a glimpse of life in Buzzards Bay, MA (LOC)
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Image by The Library of Congress
Banana Burt and Lil at Buzzards Bay D.Q. stand
[1950]
1 photograph : print ; sheet 20 x 25 cm.

Summary: Photograph shows woman and man at Dairy Queen ice cream stand with giant bananas in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.

Notes:
o J6531 U.S. Copyright Office.
o Title from item.
o Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Business & Science section.

Subjects:
o International Dairy Queen, Inc.–Public relations–Massachusetts–Buzzards Bay–1950.
o Food vendors–Massachusetts–Buzzards Bay–1950.
o Ice cream & ices–1950.
o Bananas–1950.
o Advertising–Massachusetts–Buzzards Bay–1950.

Format:
Photographic prints–1950.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright office.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51088

Call Number: SSF – Food Stands

Saluting Nature Photography Day with an early view of Yosemite Valley, California (LOC)

Saluting Nature Photography Day with an early view of Yosemite Valley, California (LOC)
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Image by The Library of Congress
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, photographer
Yosemite Valley, California
[ca. 1865]

1 photographic print : albumen ; photo 40.2 x 52.4 cm, on mount 54.2 x 65.9 cm.

Notes:
• Title devised by Library staff.
• Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress …. Washington : Library of Congress …, 1975, no. 108.
• Exhibited: "The Illusion of the American Frontier" at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 2015-Feb. 2016.

Subjects:
• Valleys–California–1860-1870.
• Mountains–California–1860-1870.
• Yosemite Valley (Calif.)–1860-1870.
Format:
• Albumen prints–1860-1870.
• Landscape photographs–1860-1870.
• Mammoth plates–1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09983

Call Number: LOT 4590, no. 2