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[0-2] Issued at least 11 sets of 15 cards of comic or mildly pornographic situations for use in their Mutoscope machines (coin-operated arcade viewers); each has set & view sequence #s scratched in neg., such as 68-2. Sets known include "Hold My Yarn", "How'd you like to be the Iceman?", "The Cook Walks In", "A Hot Summer Night in Manhattan", all on gray curved mts. Photog. unknown; in most cases, views bear only CR date scratched in neg. of 04 or 05, but one set bears near-illegible imprint scratched in neg. of R.W.D. CR 07 (R.W. Daly, NYC photographer). Given the similarity in style, Daly likely produced all the known series. Some cards were in use however as late as 24, bearing that date from MA censor (A.R. Foote, Commissioner, Dept. of Public Safety) for use on Sunday. Foote was a zealot who under the directions of the Catholic authorities restricted "immoral" images and writings. He wanted to ban these altogether, but had to settle for Sunday ban. Expert, Patrick Loughney, Lib. Congress. 
  
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association)
Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others.
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