The tally-ho – Historic 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.)
Description
Step back in time with The tally-ho, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The tally-ho
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The title "The tally-ho" points to a particular subject: a tally-ho was a light, horse-drawn coach, the kind driven by sporting gentlemen in the late 1800s, so the picture may pair young sitters with a bit of fashionable leisure. The print is a boudoir card, a small studio portrait on a stiff card mount that was widely sold in the 1890s. It was copyrighted by W.T. Barnum of Adrian, Michigan, around 1891, and the Library of Congress later included it in the 1997 book *Eyes of the Nation*. Its children's subject places it within the period's growing market for affordable portraits of family life.
| Created / published | c1891. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on card mount. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1890-1900.Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Boudoir card photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 33029W U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.T. Barnum, Adrian, Mich. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Children--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,440 × 1,138 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219228 |
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