Features of the Chicago Womans Symphony Orchestra – Vintage 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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Features of the Chicago Womans Symphony Orchestra comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Features of the Chicago Womans Symphony Orchestra
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The photograph's caption card ties it to the Chicago Woman's Symphony Orchestra, an all-female ensemble, and its subject tags point to music, women, and a mother and child, so the image may show a performer or the orchestra's family life rather than its concert stage. The record is marked as unverified, so the exact people and occasion are uncertain. In the late 1920s, women's orchestras offered musicians a chance to perform when many major symphony orchestras were closed to them. Dated November 1929, the print captures the city's active music scene in the years before the Depression reshaped the arts.
| Created / published | 1929 Nov. 7. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Music; Geogr.; Women; Mother & child. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,239 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156577 |
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