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Getting ready for Christmas – Historic Reproduction

Getting ready for Christmas, 1930 Nov. 4. — historic photograph
Getting ready for Christmas, 1930 Nov. 4.. Historic photograph from the Christmas 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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This historic photograph of Getting ready for Christmas brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Women workers in Chicago's toy industry are the focus of this photograph, dated November 4, 1930, when factories were gearing up for the holiday season. Toy makers of the period often hired many women for detailed hand work, and model airplanes were a popular product after Charles Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight. The picture offers a glimpse of seasonal production that kept workers busy in the months before Christmas, even as the early Depression was tightening household budgets.

Created / published1930 Nov. 4.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930.
SubjectsToy industry--Illinois--Chicago--1930. Model airplanes--1930. Women--Employment--Illinois--Chicago--1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169305

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