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1926 Dr Craig Campbell
Some while ago my mother gave me a small beautifully made silk lined wallet, she'd inherited it from a doctor and his wife she had worked for as a cook in the 1950's.
These photo booth pictures were tucked very very deep in to one corner, I'd had the wallet some time and thought it was empty, I'm reasonably shaw they'd not seen the light of day since the 1920's, photographic treasure from a lost time.
Dr Campbell was a published photographer as well as a doctor, my mum said that he'd travelled to new york in 1926, she said he loved new inventions and I surmise that he would have not been able to resist the new photo booth just opened the previous year on broadway, his apparent age and dress also match the date of his trip.
Dr Campbell died in his sleep in 1957, I have many of his possessions a wardrobe, suitcases,books, etc... sadly his darkroom was flooded shortly after his death and his cameras and negs were lost, I do have a wooden box of glass colour auto chromes he'd made (he was doing his own colour development in the 1930's!).
I hope he would of liked to be on polanoid.
Shotdate | -location:
1948
| New York City (US)
Camera
Photo Booth
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