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A Quiet game – Antique Print

A Quiet game, c1901. — historic photograph
A Quiet game, c1901.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Children hunched over a quiet game of chance give this view its character, and the title suggests a casual street moment rather than a posed portrait. The Detroit Publishing Company catalogued it as number 09010, and its subject tags pair children gambling with shoe shining, which points to young African American shoeshiners passing time between customers. Made around 1901 on an 8 by 10 inch dry plate glass negative, it comes from a firm that sold large numbers of views of American streets and daily life in that era, and it offers an unposed look at how working children spent their spare minutes.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 09010. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsChildren gambling. African Americans--Children. Shoe shining.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan714 × 926 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-55010

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