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Device manufactured by the National Ouija Board Co., Washington, D.C. – Vintage Wall Art

Device manufactured by the National Ouija Board Co., Washington, D.C., ca. 1920. — historic photograph
Device manufactured by the National Ouija Board Co., Washington, D.C., ca. 1920.. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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This rare historic photograph captures Device manufactured by the National Ouija Board Co., Washington, D.C. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Device manufactured by the National Ouija Board Co., Washington, D.C.

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Few parlor objects of the early 1920s drew as much attention as the Ouija board, and this photograph shows one made by the National Ouija Board Co. of Washington, D.C. The game, with its lettered face and a planchette that players believed moved on its own, spread widely during the 1910s amid public fascination with spiritualism and séances. The National Photo Company, which recorded many scenes around Washington, captured the device around 1920, when the city's commercial and manufacturing life was growing. The picture is a useful glimpse of a fad that gave a local firm a national reputation.

Created / publishedca. 1920.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Social Life & Customs. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). French Coll. - WASHINGTON (D.C.). Ref. copy may be in SSF - GAMES--OUIJA--1920. Caption card tracings: Washington (D.C.) -- Misc. -- 1920; Industry -- Games --1920; Games -- Ouija [i.e., Ouiji?]-- 1920; Fortune-tellers; Games; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,197 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152041

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