A true son of the auld Sod - Galway, Ireland – 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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A window into the past: A true son of the auld Sod - Galway, Ireland, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A true son of the auld Sod - Galway, Ireland
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The title, "A true son of the auld Sod," describes an elderly man as a representative of the old homeland, and the card places him in Galway on Ireland's west coast. Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm, issued stereoviews like this around 1901 for American households, where a stereoscope turned the paired images into a three-dimensional scene. Portraits of older rural Irish people were popular with those buyers, and many such cards presented age and tradition in a warm, sentimental light. The caption's affectionate tone and the posed, close look at the subject are both worth noticing.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : Underwood & Underwood, c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H107xxc U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Older people--Ireland--Galway--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,246 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-191546 |
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