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[Boy shaving with straightedge razor] – Historic Print

[Boy shaving with straightedge razor], 1919 April. — historic print
[Boy shaving with straightedge razor], 1919 April.. Historic print 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 young boy works a straightedge razor over his face in this halftone reproduction of a Norman Rockwell painting, which ran on the cover of *Farm and Fireside* in April 1919. The scene of a child playing at a grown man's morning routine was a favorite subject for Rockwell, who often used everyday moments of boyhood to tell a small story. Halftone printing let magazines reproduce paintings in large runs, so the image reached a wide rural readership. The record's details come from an older caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / published1919 April.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesHalf-tone repro. of painting by Norman Rockwell. Illus. in Farm and Fireside, April 1919, cover. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Shaving; Children.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,108 × 1,152 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176938

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