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My grandfather in a formal portrait, taken at Vitagraph Studios in the early 1920s. In testing the staging of formal shots for the movie stars, the photographers often asked my grandfather, who worked for the company, to stand in and "model" as the photographers prepared their equipment or tested lighting. Consequently, we have several pictures of this type. View full size.
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