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![m3zzaluna:
m3zzaluna:
inge morath, a llama in time square, new york city, 1957
20,000+!
i had no idea it had gotten so many notes. last time i checked it had something like 500.
here’s the story behind this iconic image: LIFE magazine, december 2, 1957 issue, published a one-page story, in its humorous animals section, entitled “high-paid llama in big city”. the story was about a menagerie of television animals—including, in addition to the llama, large and small dogs, cats, birds, a pig, a kangaroo, and a miniature bull—living at home with their trainers in a manhattan brownstone.
the story in LIFE featured three photographs by morath, including a cropped close-up of linda the llama. curiously, the caption accompanying the closeup describes the llama as ogling from the window of a taxi on her way to make a television appearance. in fact, she was in the back seat of her trainer’s car, and, as morath explains, on her way home from the studio when the picture was taken. morath’s full caption reads, “linda, the lama (sic) rides home via broadway. she is just coming home from a television show in new york’s a.b.c. studios and now takes a relaxed and long-necked look at the lights of one of the world’s most famous streets.” [read more]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1p4uh1cFw1qakafjo1_r2_250.jpg)
