Birth of the pearl [graphic].
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Armitage, F. S.
still image
Film stills 1900-1910. gmgpc
Photographic prints 1900-1910. gmgpc
[1903]
eng
Frame enlargements showing women in tights opening a curtain, an oyster shell with a sleeping woman in a flesh colored body suit, and the woman standing in the shell.
Item in: Birth of the pearl / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1903.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress).
Cameraman: F.S. Armitage.
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 307.
Women--Clothing & dress--1900-1910.
Burlesque shows--1900-1910.
Shells--1900-1910.
Tableaux--1900-1910.
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