Figure 1.--Here we see what look tgo be photo booth strips. From the style of these clothes we would date these to the very earlu 1900s, perhaps 1000-1905.
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Figure 1.--Here we see what look tgo be photo booth strips. From the style of these clothes we would date these to the very earlu 1900s, perhaps 1000-1905. |
The photogtraphic booth was a popular attraction at the beach prominade and other events like state fairs and other resort liocations. Later it proved popular in shopping malls. I am not sure when they first appeared they may have appeared as early as the turn of the 20th century. Early booths may have been able to shootg
more than cloiseups. TYhe early booths were presumably not automatic, but probably they were rapidly processed. We are not yet sure about this. The modern fdigital campera had probably made the photo booth a relic, but here we are not yet sure.
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