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Title: Portrait
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Ansco Company
Subjects: Photography
Publisher: (Binghamton, N.Y. : Ansco Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ed. Mr. L.J. Buckley conceived the ideaof utilizing his negatives in an entirely novel way, andafter securing the cooperation of a competent windowdresser, set about constructing a series of huts, sevenin number, each one bearing the emblem of the organi-zation represented in the united campaign. The huts were made of paper to imitate woodenbuildings and were provided with doors and windows.Evergreens used in the background gave an out-of-doors effect. In front of each hut stood one or morecut-out figures of officers and men, enlarged to fifty-four inches in height from Mr. Buckleys negatives.The enlargements, on double weight Enlarging Cyko,were mounted on heavy board and cut to outline witha band saw. For the activities within the hut special poses weretaken. The illustration on the opposite page shows thisfeature — the boys around a phonograph and writingtable within the hut. The foreground of the window was filled with framedportraits of Binghamton soldiers. At night the display
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< M c p PORTRAIT was softly lighted with red lamps, and in order tokeep traffic open police guards had to be stationedto see that the crowds kept moving. The success ofthis display was so phenomenal and the possibilitiesin its use so many that it has occurred to us thatphotographers elsewhere would be glad to adopt theidea when called upon to do something for their com-munity as an aid in furthering the interests of the RedCross or other war-time activities. A sad element in regard to this particular displaycame through the news that one of the boys whoselikeness appeared in the window, a captain of infan-try, had just lost his life in France. A gold star wasimmediately placed upon his portrait and may be dis-tinguished in the accompanying illustration. The careful working out of such a display by a sin-gle photographer or several in cooperation shouldprove of wonderful value in stimulating local interestwhenever it is attempted. Countless ideas should suggest themselves for usein

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