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(TELEVISION—AMERICAN
BANDSTAND)
A collection of 36 snapshots made of a TV screen
during the hit show, American Bandstand.
With
teens dancing together in crowds or pairs as
well as close ups of their faces and their feet;
several photographs showing the Bandstand
set, and another with a figure from behind
watching TV, presumably with a popular hit
song playing. Silver prints, 3 inches square or
2
3
/
4
x4 inches (7.6 or 7x10.2 cm.), each date
stamped. 1959-61
[700/1,000]
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(TRAILER PARK)
Group of more than 100 photographs of denizens of a trailer park in the 1950s, all taken by the same
photographer.
A typology of trailers, their inhabitants, and trailer park living, including families in the
sun and snow, couples posing outside their front doors (including a few men with their accordions),
friends gathered in the small yards, and children playing, all taken with a careful, artful eye for the
everyday. Silver (approximately 100) and chromogenic prints (3), most measuring 3 inches (7.6 cm.)
square, one measuring 4
3
/
4
x6
3
/
4
inches (12.1x17.1 cm.), most with the month and year printed in
the lower margin, and a few with the year, in pencil, or captions identifying the subjects, in ink, also
in the margin. 1953-60 and 1964 (one)
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