Box of ice boxes, 22 postcards of ice box photos by Cynthia Connolly
date: label: Date made
content: c 2001
name: label: maker
content: Connolly, Cynthia
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Box decorated with black and white images of ice boxes, title "Box of ice boxes, 22 postcards of ice box photos by Cynthia Connolly" in blue lettering. Box set includes plastic bag for ice with an eskimo-like character with fur trimmed clothes standing next to stack of ice cubes each with a letter from I-C-E. Box is decorated with a representation of each of the postcard contained within.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Project inspired by photographer's Los Angeles childhood memory of only seeing snow on the letters of ice boxes and wondering what snow was like. Project notes ho ice boxes shapes, graphics and fonts vary across the United States. Fonts and designs were more geographically specifically. See photographer's website for more details.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Photographs from series were included in "Beautiful Losers" exhibiton in Cincinnati, Ohio, 2004, Contemporary Arts Center, toured in US and Europe.
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0236.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Postcard Container
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm x 4 cm; 4 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 1 9/16 in