"The Bootblack Makes a Mistake"
date: label: date made
content: Post-1906
notes: label: Description
content: Green posterboard with painted advertisement for the mutoscope motion picture "The Bootblack Makes a Mistake"; an attached photograph shows a scene from the movie - a man's pant leg is blackened by a boy who is shining his shoes while a woman nearby reveals her leg. The mutoscope movie is probably a scene from the Pathe Frères film The Absent-Minded Shoe Black, made in April 1906.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
label: Subject
content: Entertainment, Film
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Advertising
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.76.87.12
label: catalog number
content: 76.87.12
label: accession number
content: 2008.0095
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
label: Object Type
content: posters
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 cm x 27 cm; 19 11/16 in x 10 5/8 in