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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.

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women clothing and dress burlesque shows shells tableaux erotica film stills photographic prints birth pearl american women a gateway to library of congress resources for the study of women history and culture in the united states motion picture broadcasting and recorded sound division american mutoscope and biograph company f s armitage photo library of congress public domain movie stills silent films
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01/01/1903
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American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Armitage, F. S.
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