Christmas dinner at the boarding house – 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.)
Description
This rare historic print captures Christmas dinner at the boarding house in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Christmas dinner at the boarding house
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A holiday meal at a crowded boarding house is the setting for this cartoon, which the Library of Congress catalogs as a reproduction of a drawing by an artist named Bradford. The record places it in *Life*, the New York humor weekly, in 1903, on page 647 of volume 42. Boarding-house scenes were a staple of American comic illustration at the time, drawing laughs from cramped tables, tight budgets and the mix of strangers who shared a dining room. The catalog data comes from an older caption card and has not been fully verified, so the artist's full name and other details are worth checking against the original magazine.
| Medium | 1 print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1903 |
| Subjects | Repr. of cartoon drawing by Bradford. Illus. in: Life, v. 42, 1903, p. 647. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons, US--1903; Inns; Artists, Publ. I.; Holidays--Christmas; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,459 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136478 |
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