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16 1/2" (42 cm.) x 13 1/2" photograph. 22" x 18" framed. Against an abstract turquoise background, teenage Shirley Temple sits on a bench, her head turned smiling to the side, her arms folded above her waist, wearing unusual medallion print dress, and wearing two of her favorite jewelry objects including the treasured tank watch (#48, this book) presented to her by Elgin during her 1941 radio show which they sponsored. The photograph is pencil signed on the reverse "Shirley Temple by Warnecke & Elkins N.Y. Daily News press exhibit 1945". Harry Warnecke is notable for bringing vibrant dynamic color photography to newsprint, notably The New York Daily News Sunday magazine, at a time when other newspapers only offered muddied black and whites. His work, once forgotten, was brought to the public's attention once again at a one-man exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2012. This photograph is notable not only for its Shirley Temple portraiture, including storied jewelry, but also for its place in photographic history.