Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Date: 1937
Medium: gelatin silver print with editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0158.0020

Inscriptions:
Recto, handwritten: MAG 50% 100% [struck through]; Verso, stamped: JUN 24 2001; handwritten: [illeg.]; stamped: 5495; handwritten: 5 x 6 1/2; stamped: OCT 10 1937; handwritten: 10-512-L-2 [circled]; stamped: [eagle with spread wings] [illeg.] Y [loss] / PHO [loss] / INTERNATIONAL / NEWS PHOTOS / COPYRIGHT / BY / [decorative scroll] INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS [underscored] / 235 EAST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. / [illeg.] PHOTOGRAPH IS NOT SOLD BUT A LICENSE UNDER / COPYRIGHT IS GRANTED FOR ITS PUBLICATION AS A NEWS / PHOTOGRAPH ONLY. IT MUST NOT BE LOANED OR SOLD / WITHOUT OUR CONSENT AND MUST BE RETURNED AT OUR / REQUEST. IT CAN BE USED FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES OR / FOR PURPOSES OF TRADE ONLY IF YOU FIRST SECURE THE / [WRITT]EN PERMISSION OF THE INDIVIDUALS APPEARING IN IT; handwritten: [adhered Post-it note] BOX 17 / Dionne Quints; handwritten: [adhered Post-it note] SA; handwritten: [adhered with paste] 2; stamped: POSTED / OCT 16 1937 / EDITORIAL AUDITING DEPT.; stamped: 1893 [circled]; stamped: M OCT 3 67 [struck through]; handwritten: $5 - / - 10 / [line] / $5.10; handwritten: 23-880 [circled and struck through]; typed: [adhered with paste] NOT FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE SEPT. 6TH [underscored] / WATCH YOUR CREDIT..INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS / SLUG...(QUINT FEATURE) / QUINTLAND GOES SLIGHTLY CONEY--IN NEW TOURIST BOOM [underscored] / CALLANDER, ONT., CAN.--CANADA IS EXPERIENCING A / TOURIST BOOM OF UNPRECEDENTED PROPORTIONS, DURING / THE MONTHEOF [sic] JULY 140,000 PERSONS JOURNEYED TO CALL- / ANDER FOR A PEEK AT THE DIONNE QUINTUPLET GIRLS WHO / ARE NOW 2-YEARS-OLD AND AT ONE OF THE "CUTEST" STAGES / OF ALL. / ROADSIDE STANDS, GAS STATIONS AND SOUVENIR SHOPS / ARE PROVING VERITABLE BONANZAS. EVERYTHING EVEN REMOTE [-] / LY CONNECTED WITH THE MULTIPLE BIRTH HAS TAKEN ON AN / ADDED IMPORTANCE. SUCH A THING AS THE ORIGINAL BASKET / IN WHICH THE QUINTUPLETS WERE PLACED HAS BECOME THE / CENTER OF A SPECIAL LITTLE "SHRINE" OF ITS OWN, AT- / TRACTING HUNDREDS OF SIGHTSEERS. THEN THERE IS THE / STORY OF THE STONES TAKEN FROM THE DAFOE HOSPITAL / GROUNDS WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP BRING CHILDREN TO / THE CHILDLESS. / OVER HALF A MILLION WILL HAVE SEEN THE QUINTS / FROM MAY TO OCTOBER. SOMEHOW THE CROWDS, THE STANDS, AND THE SOUVENIRS, FLAUNTED FROM EVERY CORNER, HAVE / GIVEN THE SCENE A FLAIR SLIGHTLY REMINISCENT OF NEW / YORK'S CONEY ISLAND. THE VISITORS FIRST GATHER AT THE / OUTER GATE OF THE HOSPITAL WHERE A CLOCK DESIGNATED / THE "NEXT SHOWING" OF THE QUINTS. SPECTATORS ARE HERD- / ED THROUGH THE QUINTS HOME AND MAY SEE THEM FROM AFAR, / ALTHOUGH THE WINDOWS ARE SO CONSTRUCTED THAT THE QUINTS / CANNOT SEE THE VISITORS AND CONTINUE WITH THEIR PLAY / UNAWARE THAT THEY ARE THE CYNOSURE OF THOUSANDS OF EYES / IN THE MEANTIME, MRS. OLIVA DIONNE TAKES CARE OF / HER NEWEST CHILD, A BOY, AND MR. OLIVA DIONNE DIVIDES / HIS TIME BETWEEN FARM WORK AND HIS SOUVENIR AND RE- / FRESHMENT STAND. / --"THE NEXT SHOWING." THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK / DESIGNATE THE HOUR WHEN VISITORS WILL BE PER- / MITTED TO SEE THE QUINTUPLETS.