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The Banner. Saroy's Centennial Tableaux – Historic Reproduction

The Banner. Saroy's Centennial Tableaux, c1876. — historic photograph
The Banner. Saroy's Centennial Tableaux, c1876.. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs collection.

(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 The Banner. Saroy's Centennial Tableaux 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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The Banner. Saroy's Centennial Tableaux

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A woman draped in flags is the central figure in this c1876 print, titled *The Banner* and identified as one of Sarony's Centennial tableaux. The photographer, Napoleon Sarony, was a New York studio portraitist known for theatrical and staged pictures, and tableaux vivants, in which costumed performers held still in a composed pose, were a popular entertainment of the period. The date places the image around the nation's 1876 centennial, when patriotic imagery was everywhere, and this picture turns that mood into a single arranged scene. The caption information is unverified, so the exact occasion and the sitter remain uncertain.

Created / publishedc1876.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Sarony. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Flags, US; Patriotism; Woman; Centennial cele.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,394 × 1,686 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129489

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