Even those of you who don’t feel as strongly about your morning cup of joe as I do can understand why this photograph would catch my eye!
Just imagine the thousands of cups of coffee it could hold! The Bedford Coffee Pot no longer dishes out coffee along the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania, but it certainly makes me crave a cup. (Happily, the unique structure, shown in hard times in the above photo, has been restored and moved to the Bedford County Fairgrounds.)
Scattered throughout the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division are more examples of what is called programmatic or mime