Pictures While You Wait 1928

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Handmade transfers. A young child cuts a picture of a cowboy from a newspaper, rubs over it with candle wax then transfers it to plain paper by rubbing the back of the cutting with a spoon. When the transfer is complete, she puts it into a picture frame.

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
35266
Sort Number:
EP 008
Time in/Out:
01:31:01:00 / 01:32:38:00
Canister:
EP 008
Film ID:
754.15
Issue Date:

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