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Advertising display outside the studio of photographer Melbourne Spurr at 3986 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, 1934

Sometime after of Iowa-born portrait photographer Melbourne Spurr arrived in Hollywood in 1917, he got his big break when he impressed Mary Pickford. By the mid 1920s, he was one of the most in-demand celebrity photographers. In 1933, he opened … Continue reading

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