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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE By J. A. ANDERSON HIS article is written with a shade of doubt asto the character of its reception among the seri-ous papers which, as usual, will adorn the pagesof the Annual, but with a degree of assurancethat it will, at least, meet with some sympathyfrom the feminine devotees of the lens, who are more likelythan the other sex to have a pretty distinct recollection of thedelights of that part of the magic country of Make Believeknown as *Doll Land. Though one may be absorbed in the deeper photographic mysteries he (or she) may find occasional pleasing occupation for the camera in this delectable region, provided that the visitor is able to enter heartily into the spirit of the place. Contact with the stern realities of life is apt to blunt that 192
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Alice Boughton. mysterious sense which, at its best, belongs alone to the littlemother with her doll. To her the doll, be it rag or china, andhowever uncouth, is a real personality, with a definite name.It becomes an inseparable companion; the object of the fondestaffection. Call this trivial, if you please, or the result of child-ish imagination, but not so is it to the ardent little one. It isof the real world that is just opening to the growing apprehen-sion of the youngster and supplies what becomes a treasuredmemory in later years.

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