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[Interior of a steamboat cabin at dinner time] / Brennan Photo. – Historic Photograph Print

[Interior of a steamboat cabin at dinner time] / Brennan Photo., [1900] — historic photograph
[Interior of a steamboat cabin at dinner time] / Brennan Photo., [1900]. Historic photograph from the Steamboats 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Interior of a steamboat cabin at dinner time] / Brennan Photo.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Rather than a deck or a port scene, this picture turns the camera inside a steamboat to show its dining saloon at mealtime, with tables laid for service. Photographs of this kind from around 1900 are valuable because they record the interior life of river and coastal steamers, which carried passengers and freight across American waterways before rail and highway travel overtook them. The silver printing-out process used here produced a soft, warm-toned image that was common in that period. The print was later reproduced in Eyes of the Nation, a Library of Congress-based survey of American visual history, where it stands as a glimpse of how travelers were fed and housed on the water.

Created / published[1900]
Medium1 photographic print : silver printing-out.
GenreSilver printing-out paper prints 1900.
NotesPublished 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.
SubjectsSteamboats--1900. Dining rooms--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,461 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218745

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