The snow man--happy days / George Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, New York. – Historic Photograph 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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Step back in time with The snow man--happy days / George Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, New York., 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 snow man--happy days / George Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, New York.
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Most stereographs of Niagara Falls show the cataract itself, so this card stands apart: it is a genre scene of children building a snowman, titled "The Snow Man: Happy Days." George Barker, who issued many stereo views from the Niagara region in the 1880s, made it around 1888. Cards like this were sold for parlor stereoscopes, where paired images merged into a single three-dimensional scene. The sentimental title and the playful subject reflect a popular taste for winter childhood pictures in that decade.
| Created / published | c1888. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 6807T2(?) U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Children playing in snow--1880-1890. Snowmen--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 725 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170749 |
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