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This preserved scene shows Photographer posed outdoors on the balcony of a government building with her camera on a tripod. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: “Pinkey and the Camera.” Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, Washington, DC, 1888.
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This preserved scene shows A man stands in front of a painting he is creating on the wall of a room. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Ken Scharf, painter. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1985.
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This preserved scene shows A smiling woman kneels next to a camera larger than she is. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: “World’s Largest Camera,” a Kodak camera shown at Capitol Industrial Exposition. Photo by Underwood & Underwood, 1932.
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This preserved scene shows Two women, one wearing a nun’s habit and both holding cameras, stand in front of a crowd. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Crowd waiting for the Pope, Yankee Stadium, New York. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1979.
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This preserved scene shows Woman sits in a chair near an easel at the end of a room with a long window on one side and tables on the other. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Georgia O’Keeffe, artist, sitting in her home studio. Photo by Balthazar Korab Studios, 1965.
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This preserved scene shows Graphic design shows a boy wearing a striped shirt and sitting in front of an easel. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: “Art Classes for Children.” WPA poster for Chicago, Illinois, 1936-1940.
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This preserved scene shows Teenage girls and boys sketching while they sit at tables or work with scenes taped to the walls. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Art students at Anacostia High School, Washington, DC. Photo by National Photo Co., 1939.
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This preserved scene shows Man standing in front of the camera on a tripod with a crowd in the background. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: A young Masai interested in the camera, Arusha, Tanzania. Photo by Matson, 1936.
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This preserved scene shows Drawing of a woman leaning on a camera on a tripod and holding a painter’s palette. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, artist and photographer. Place card by William Mills Thomson, 1896.
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This preserved scene shows Profile head-and-shoulders portrait of a man. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Alfred Stieglitz, photographer. Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1908.
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This preserved scene shows Two children in a field starting down at a camera. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Francis Lincoln and Lucy Lee with a camera. Photo by Francis Watts Lee, 1915-1920.
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This preserved scene shows Photographers with four cameras capture hippos and a zoo keeper. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: “Pygmy hippo and her new baby before a battery of press cameras,” New York zoo. Photo by A.G. Baumann, 1919.
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