The wedding ring guards the engagement ring – Antique 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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This historic photograph of The wedding ring guards the engagement ring brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The wedding ring guards the engagement ring
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The joke is in the title: a plain wedding band stands guard over the engagement ring, a playful reminder that marriage is meant to outlast courtship. Stereo cards like this were produced in large numbers in the first decade of the 1900s, when parlor viewers used a stereoscope to fuse two nearly identical photographs into a single three-dimensional scene. This one was issued by the Sterro-Photo Co. of Dolgeville, a small village in upstate New York, and carries a copyright notice in the name of C.A. Richmond.
| Created / published | Dolgeville, N.Y., U.S.A. : Sterro-Photo Co., publishers, c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H95293 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1056. Copyright by C.A. Richmond. |
| Subjects | Weddings--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216058 |
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