Birth of the pearl Item in LC 1318a (paper pos) [Motion Picture &...

CALL NUMBER:Item in LC 1318a (paper pos) [Motion Picture & Television RR]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsca-02981 (scan of curtain opening, from b&w copy photo in Publishing Office)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-02982 (scan of woman sleeping, from b&w copy photo in Publishing Office)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-02983 (scan of woman standing, from b&w copy photo in Publishing Office)
No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:Frame enlargements showing women in tights opening a curtain, an oyster shell with a sleeping woman in a flesh colored body suit, and the woman standing in the shell.

MEDIUM:3 photographic prints.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[1903]

CREATOR:

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

RELATED NAMES:

Armitage, F. S.

NOTES:

Item in: Birth of the pearl / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1903.

Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress).

Cameraman: F.S. Armitage.

Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women''s history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 307.

SUBJECTS:

Women--Clothing & dress--1900-1910.
Burlesque shows--1900-1910.
Shells--1900-1910.
Tableaux--1900-1910.

FORMAT:

Erotica 1900-1910.
Film stills 1900-1910.
Photographic prints 1900-1910.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(scan of curtain opening, from b&w photo in Publishing Office) ppmsca 02981
(scan of woman sleeping, from b&w photo in Publishing Office) ppmsca 02982
(scan of woman standing, from b&w photo in Publishing Office) ppmsca 02983

CARD #:2002735955

Pop Art Machine Code: ppmsca-02900-02982


LOC 1522553