The Kodakery of the witches – Vintage 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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A window into the past: The Kodakery of the witches, 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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The Kodakery of the witches
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The title pairs witches with the Kodak, the handheld camera that made snapshot photography a popular pastime after its introduction in 1888. The print was issued by the Souvenir Publishing Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, a town a short distance from Salem, where the 1692 witch trials had made the witch a familiar part of local identity by the early 1900s. Novelty photoprints like this were typically sold as keepsakes and jokes, so the humor depends on viewers recognizing both the camera craze and the Salem legend. The date and publisher details come from an unverified caption card.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Souvenir Pub. Co., Lynn, Mass. No. 307. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,003 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160467 |
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