We’re excited to announce our newest collection on Flickr: photobooth portraits, which joins our other historic photos on Flickr in giving new access to our deep photographic collections. These photobooth shots give insight into the use of photography in everyday life in the twentieth century, from the 1930s to the 1970s. The collection includes shots of Harvey Firestone, Jr. and Elizabeth Parke Firestone.*
We’re excited about these photos: look for a post on the cultural history of the photobooth portrait, coming soon from Cynthia R. Miller, our Curator of Prints and Photographs–and the next time you’re at Henry Ford Museum, take a picture of your own in our photobooth near the IMAX entrance.
*The Henry Ford holds a great deal of Mrs. Firestone’s couture clothing, as well as the Columbiana, Ohio, farm where Harvey Firestone, Sr. was born, among other Firestone artifacts.
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