Grandpa's visit Christmas morning – Antique Wall Art
(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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Grandpa's visit Christmas morning comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Grandpa's visit Christmas morning
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Its title, "Grandpa's visit Christmas morning," places a visiting grandfather at the center of a holiday scene, a domestic moment the card's subject headings describe as children playing with toys in a family setting. The card was published around 1897 in Philadelphia by Griffith & Griffith, a firm that issued stereoviews for the parlor stereoscope, a popular home entertainment of the late 1800s. Cards like this were often sold in sets, and their staged family scenes reflected a growing middle-class fascination with Christmas as a holiday centered on home, children, and gift-giving.
| Created / published | Phildelphia : Griffith & Griffith, c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 52829 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 16832. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1890-1900. Children playing with toys--1890-1900. Families--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,263 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177171 |
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