[two little girls at the movies]: Museum Object and Cultural History
[two little girls at the movies]: Object Name: picture postcard. Measurements: overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 13.97 cm. Subject: Children.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a blank color comic postcard that hasn't been addressed or mailed. The image depicts two little girls sitting in movie theater seats. Text inside a red outlined box to the left of them reads: You and I at the Movies-that's "Reel" life! Below the box is a small, horizontal, red outlined bo containting a profile illustration of a projector projecting onto a screen.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: picture postcard
- Measurements: overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 13.97 cm
- Subject: Children
- Subject: Theater
- Subject: Movie
- ID Number: 2016.0066.084
- accession number: 2016.0066
- catalog number: 2016.0066.0084
- Credit Line: Wayne Hill Photographica Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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