How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy
Source: Smithsonian
A woman named Evelyn Thaw dodges a camera, 1909 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division In 1904, a widow named Elizabeth Peck had her portrait taken at a studio in a small Iowa town. The photographer sold the negatives to Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey, a company that avoided liquor taxes for years by falsely advertising its product as medicinal. Duffy’s ads claimed the fantastical: that it cured…
This is aggregated or syndicated coverage. Reporting and media belong to the original publisher.
Read the original source at Smithsonian