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TITLE:  Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze / taken & copyrighted by W.K.-L. Dickson, Orange, N.J.

CALL NUMBER:  PH - Dickson (W.), no. 2 (A size) [P&P]
PH - Dickson (W.), no. 1

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-13462 (digital file from original photograph no. 2)
LC-USZC4-4861 (color film copy transparency of no. 2)
LC-USZC4-3652 (color film copy transparencyof no. 2)
LC-USZCN4-16 (color film copy neg. of no. 2)
LC-USZ62-536 (b&w film copy neg. of cropped image of no. 2)
LC-USZ62-44602 (b&w film copy neg. of detail of no. 1; does not show text handwritten below the photo)

SUMMARY:  Photograph consists of a series of 45 frames for a movie showing a man, Fred Ott, sneezing.

MEDIUM:  1 photographic print : gelatin printing-out paper print ; 7 x 5 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  c1894 Jan. 9.

CREATOR:

Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935, photographer.

NOTES:

44732Y U.S. Copyright Office.

The related movie was made for publicity purposes, as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in Harper's weekly. It is 5 seconds long and was filmed ca. January 2-7, 1894, in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. A digitized copy is available online through the Library of Congress' American Memory, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.0026A.

Title from item.

Library has two copies. DLC

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 172.

Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.

SUBJECTS:

Ott, Frederic P.
Sneezing--1890-1900.

FORMAT:

Motion study photographs 1890-1900.
Gelatin printing-out paper prints 1890-1900.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original photo) ppmsca 13462 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.13462
(digital file from color film copy transparency LC-USZC4-4861) cph 3g04861 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04861
(digital file from color film copy transparency LC-USZC4-3652) cph 3g03652 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03652
(digital file from color film copy neg. LC-USZCN4-16) cph 3j00016 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3j00016
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-536) cph 3a04464 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a04464
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-44602) cph 3a44830 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a44830

CONTROL #:  95505651

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