[Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brooks of Pittsfield, Maine, and their twelve daughters posed around stove in kitchen] – Historic Print
![[Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brooks of Pittsfield, Maine, and their twelve daughters posed around stove in kitchen] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/29/298c4cd73ee7-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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[Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brooks of Pittsfield, Maine, and their twelve daughters posed around stove in kitchen] 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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[Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brooks of Pittsfield, Maine, and their twelve daughters posed around stove in kitchen]
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The Lloyd Brooks family of Pittsfield, Maine, gathers around their kitchen stove with twelve daughters, a household large enough to set this 1951 photograph apart. In the early 1950s, a kitchen stove was still the warm center of many rural homes, where cooking, drying clothes and gathering after the day's work all took place in one room. Family portraits like this one show how domestic routines were recorded in the period. The stove is worth noticing as much as the people, since it reflects how much daily life revolved around it.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1951 |
| Subjects | Families--Maine--Pittsfield (Town)--1950-1960. Girls--Maine--Pittsfield (Town)--1950-1960. Stoves--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,194 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-191370 |
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