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English: U.S. singer and Vaudeville star Al Jolson seated on chair at telephone table using "candlestick" style telephone. A New York telephone directory can be seen in the slot in the telephone table.
Date Not dated. Looks to be c. 1910s or early 1920s.
Source Bain News Service photo via Library of Congress website at [1]. Converted from TIFF to .jpg and edges cropped before upload.
Author Uncredited photographer for Bain News Service
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Public domain This work is from the George Grantham Bain collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.

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