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AMERICAN MOSAIC - A Snapshot of Picture Taking in the 1950s; The Music of Photography JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. This week on our show, we talk about photography. Long before cell phone camer