The wedding ceremony – Historic Print
![The wedding ceremony, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4a/4a4744c31c62-L.webp)
(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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The wedding ceremony
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Issued by Melander of Chicago and numbered 77, this stereograph is titled simply *The wedding ceremony*, and its caption card gives no date. Stereo cards like this were made from two nearly identical exposures taken from slightly different positions, which a stereoscope fused into one image with apparent depth. Wedding scenes were a popular subject for these cards in the late nineteenth century, when families could revisit familiar rites of passage at home. Scenes of this kind were often arranged with posed participants, so the card reads more as a picture of a ceremonial type than as a record of one documented event.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo by Melander, Chicago. No. 77. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Marriage...; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,359 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138120 |
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