Early Christmas – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Early Christmas brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Early Christmas
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Stereograph cards like this one were a staple of parlor entertainment in the 1890s, when a viewer held the card up to a stereoscope and two nearly identical images merged into a single three-dimensional scene. "Early Christmas" shows the holiday as the 1890s pictured it: a domestic morning scene built around children and their toys. The card was published in Philadelphia around 1897 by Griffith & Griffith, a firm that sold its views under its own name and copyright registration. Its subject, children with new playthings, reflects the sentimental, family-centered Christmas that stereo publishers returned to again and again.
| Created / published | Philadelphia, Pa. : Griffith & Griffith, c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 52218C22 U.S. Copyright Office. Sold only by Griffith & Griffith. No. 16827. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1890-1900. Children playing with toys--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,257 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-188974 |
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