Organ grinder – Vintage Wall Art
![Organ grinder, [between 1909 and 1940] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/26/26306ecf446c-L.webp)
(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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Organ grinder comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Among the many street and trade pictures in the National Photo Company Collection, this glass negative stands out for its subject: a man working an organ grinder, the hand-cranked barrel organ once common on American city sidewalks. The record dates the image only to a span between 1909 and 1940, and its title comes from data the National Photo Company wrote on the negative or its sleeve, which the Library of Congress has not verified. The company, active in Washington, D.C., made large numbers of documentary views in those decades, and the glass plate format reflects the commercial photography of that era. Visible streaks and blemishes are a result of the coatings breaking down over time.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch six. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,988 × 4,295 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-257359 |
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