Nature Paparazzi

In Hollywood, photographers who take pictures of celebrities going about their day to day routines are known as “paparazzi.” Might the same term be applied to this group of young men seen photographing this fawn in Itasca State Park on September 16, 1939?

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4-H boys photographing fawn in Itasca State Park, September 16, 1939

(an image from a glass plate negative in the Bell Museum of Natural History records)