Diversions of the summer girl – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Diversions of the summer girl. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Diversions of the summer girl
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Five separate photographs are gathered onto one page here, all showing young women at summer pastimes, with tennis and bicycling the two activities named on the caption card. The page ran in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in August 1896, a popular weekly that used halftone reproduction to print photographs alongside drawings. The "summer girl" was a stock figure of the period, a fashionable, outdoorsy woman whose leisure stood for modern independence. At the height of the 1890s bicycle craze, images like this helped make cycling look respectable for women.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 5 photomechanical prints : halftone. |
| Subjects | Composite of halftone reproductions of studio(?) photographs. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and from looking at the item. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 83 (1896 Aug. 6), p. 92. Caption card tracings: Sports--Tennis; Sports--Bicycling; Women-- |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 911 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172131 |
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