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Language
English
Local Subjects
Libraries--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
New York (N.Y.)--Photographs
New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs
New York Public Library--Photographs
Negatives (photographic)
Cellulose nitrate film
Note
Photographer Note: Fritz E. Bjorkman was an electrical engineer born in Sweden in 1892. He emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was one year old and settled in the Bronx. He married Odessa France of Baltimore, Maryland and lived there with the France family for a time. The couple had three children and eventually settled in Yonkers, N.Y. Herman A. Blumenthal worked as an art director and production designer for the 20th Century Fox film studio in Beverly Hills, California and received Academy Awards for his work in Cleopatra (1963) and Hello, Dolly! (1969). His other film work includes The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), Whats Up , Doc? (1972), and Westworld (1973).
Extent
3 3/4 x 4 3/4"
Related Resource
Herman A. Blumenthal photograph collection, approximately 1905-1939