Anatol Josepho with photograph machine
date: label: date made
content: 1927-03-28
name: label: maker
content: Acme Photo
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Press print; Anatol Josepho with a photograph of his photo booth. Exterior panel removed to show the inner workings of photo booth.
label: Description (Brief)
content: "Anatol Josepho, buoyed up with the immigrant's dream of riches awaiting him in America, arrived in New York via Ellis Island three years ago, a penniless dreamer with a lot of socialist theories and one other idea. On March 26th, he sold the other idea for $1,000,000. It was all because of the idea. The young Russian, a practical photographer, set to work on this idea which had its birth in China where he earned a living making ping-pong photos. He would invent a maching taking photographs of the. . . [see photo for more]."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Invention
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0293.0004
label: accession number
content: 2016.0293
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0293.0004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 7 7/8 in; 22.5425 cm x 20.0025 cm