Taking good chances for a ducking – Antique Photo Print
(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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Taking good chances for a ducking comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Taking good chances for a ducking
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The title, "Taking good chances for a ducking," sets the tone: the scene plays on the old risk of tipping into the water while angling, a joke that a viewer of 1905 would have caught right away. The card was copyrighted that year by T.W. Ingersoll, with Charles L. Wasson listed as a copyright claimant, and it belongs to the large body of humorous genre stereoviews that were popular from the 1890s through the 1910s. Viewed through a stereoscope, these cards offered a small, lifelike sense of depth and gave Americans of the period a cheerful picture of everyday leisure.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | H67536 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll. No. 3321. · Wasson C. L. (Charles L.) copyright claimant. |
| Subjects | Fishing--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,288 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271292 |
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