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Little Ruthie Playing with Bottle, near Visalia, Tulare County, California
Creator
Horace BristolAmerican Photographer · 1908–1997
All works by this person →Horace Bristol and his photographs were nearly forgotten to history until one day in 1985, when his son asked if he had read John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. The question prompted Bristol to open a number of musty footlockers whose contents had been stowed away for decades. Inside were photographs that he had made half a century earlier while traveling through California's Central Valle
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- 1938
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 1107b1cc-f211-4d67-a01f-1de9a5ba8874
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A young girl sitting on the ground playing with a bottle of soap bubbles. The bottle is in the middle of a pan. The girl has her hands cupped, full of bubbles, over the mouth of the bottle.
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