[Girl seated in middle of room with books; smaller child standing on stool and wearing dunce cap] – Antique Print
![[Girl seated in middle of room with books; smaller child standing on stool and wearing dunce cap], c1908. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/37/37e9e7519b81-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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[Girl seated in middle of room with books; smaller child standing on stool and wearing dunce cap]
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A small boy stands on a stool with a dunce cap on his head while an older girl sits calmly among scattered books, a staged scene that turns the schoolroom punishment of public shame into a joke. Photographs like this were often arranged for stereograph cards, which were viewed through a double-lens viewer and sold in large numbers in the early twentieth century. Around 1908, such genre scenes of children at lessons and play were a popular way to show domestic and school life. The caption card's subject tags, "Students" and "Books and reading," suggest the card was meant to be read as a comic lesson about study habits.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | H107934 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Students; Books and reading; Children--at play. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144634 |
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