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Professor Butts goes over Niagara Falls in a collapsible ash-can and hits upon an idea to take your own picture.

Artist Rube Goldberg (American ; 1883-1970)
Copy Right Holder Rube Goldberg, Inc.
Datec. 1930; probably published in 1931
Dimensions9 3/16 x 20 3/4 in. (23.4 x 52.7 cm)
frame: 17 7/8 x 27 7/8 x 1 7/8 in. (45.4 x 70.8 x 4.8 cm)
Classification(s)
  • DRAWING
Credit LineGift of George W. George
Terms
  • contraption
  • Niagara Falls
  • figure
  • camera
  • invention
  • flies
  • mouse
  • strings
Object number81.24.59
Descriptionpaper is Strathmore drawing board
Inscribedverso in red ink: Dec. 19, 1931; l.r. in ink: Rube Goldberg
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceThe artist; to his son, George W. George (Class of 1941); to present collection, 1981
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