Two children in costume beside a spinet, photograph – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Two children in costume beside a spinet, photograph comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Two children in costume beside a spinet, photograph
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Two children stand stiffly in matching costume beside a spinet, the small keyboard instrument that was a common fixture in middle-class parlors before the upright piano took over. The pairing of dressed-up children with an instrument suggests a staged domestic scene, the kind of portrait families commissioned for holidays and special days, when a child's best clothes and a parlor's most prized possession were brought together for the camera. Valentine's Day, the occasion this board is organized around, was often marked with cards, small gifts and dressing up, so the setting gives the photograph a festive, carefully arranged feel. Photographs like this are useful to historians because they show how ordinary households presented themselves and what objects they valued.
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,032 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | VAL-51 |
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