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Streetwalker's Card for Carman's Drug
Streetwalker's Card for Carman's Drug
Streetwalker's Card for Carman's Drug

Streetwalker's Card for Carman's Drug

Dateca. 1955
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions5 7/16 × 2 15/16 in. (13.8 × 7.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Nancy Tucker
Object numberPA2022.027.128
DescriptionA yellow card numbered 51533 from a streetwalker photographer who took street photography on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The card has printed writing on the front and back and a silhouette of a motion picture camera on the upper left corner of the front of the form. Black and red printed text on the front reads, "Electronic Flash! / YOUR photograph has been taken with an Electronic Flash of Light lasting 1-10000th of a second. / Latest Development in Photographic Science / Come in and see it / You are not obligated to buy / DONT' LOSE THIS CARD / Identify your photo with this number any time after 12 NOON tomorrow / Carman's Drug / First and Central Avenue / Albuquerque, New Mexico"

The back of the card is printed with black text that says, "REMEMBER / That flash of light was electronic!! / See how you appear to the Electrons. / IF YOU LIVE OUT OF TOWN or unable to come in and see your proof simply fill out the spaces below and mail, with coin or money order / Finished post card size 2 for 65 center 4 for $1.00 8 for $1.25 / Name: [handwriting Conne Frances / Address: Box 221 / City: Alb. N.M. / Amount inclosed: good diploma / no stamps / Never too late to get your picture [handwriting: signed reporter Miss Annette [illegible]".
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