Love's Young Dream – Historic 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Love's Young Dream, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Love's Young Dream
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In this 1898-era photographic print, children and a piano are paired under the sentimental title "Love's young dream," a phrase that was a stock expression for romantic innocence at the time. The copyright notice names the Ullman Mfg. Co. of New York, a firm known for greeting cards and novelty printed goods, so the picture was likely made for commercial sale rather than as a fine-art portrait. Its mix of playful courtship sentiment and domestic setting shows how popular illustrated cards of the 1890s used children to stand in for romantic themes.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print |
| Notes | New York: Ullman Mfg. Co |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,418 × 1,940 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160945 |
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