Just out of bed--Christmas morning – Antique 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 rare historic photograph captures Just out of bed--Christmas morning in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Just out of bed--Christmas morning
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Kilburn's studio in Littleton, New Hampshire, produced this stereograph around 1897, and its title, "Just out of bed--Christmas morning," sets the scene before the viewer even looks at it. Stereo cards like this were viewed through a hand-held stereoscope, so the scene of children tumbling into their gifts appeared to stand in three dimensions. Benjamin West Kilburn built his business on such views, which were sold by the thousands to households eager for parlor entertainment. The card's copyright notice places it among the commercial scenes of the 1890s, when Christmas gift-giving to children was becoming an increasingly familiar domestic ritual.
| Created / published | Littleton, N.H. : B.W. Kilburn, c1897. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1900.Stereographs 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 12449C2 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn. No. 11626. |
| 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-188995 |
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