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Small girl wearing large bonnet – Antique Wall Art

Small girl wearing large bonnet, [ca. 190-] — historic photograph
Small girl wearing large bonnet, [ca. 190-]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: Small girl wearing large bonnet, 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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A small girl in a large bonnet is the subject here, and the oversized headwear, named in the title, is the first thing the eye settles on. The record credits the photograph to Fritz W. Guerin and dates it only approximately to around 190-, placing it in the early twentieth century, when studio portraits of children often featured sturdy, old-fashioned clothing. The caption card's tracings point to schools and to sentimental images of childhood, a genre that posed children to evoke innocence and tenderness. The attribution and date are unverified, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of the era's taste in children's dress and portraiture.

Created / published[ca. 190-]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Fritz W. Guerin. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Schools; Children--Sentimental; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,226 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140078

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