Christmas toys – Antique Wall Art
![Christmas toys, [between 1908 and 1917] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/60/6089db4d3f64-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.)
Description
Christmas toys comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A caption card and the item itself give this print its title, "Christmas toys," and place it between 1908 and 1917, a window when American news photographers were documenting holiday shopping and seasonal displays. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain, a New York news photographer, built a large archive of pictures for his Bain News Service, and his negatives are valued today as a record of daily life in the early twentieth century. The caption card's subject tags, "Toys" and "Holidays," point to the commercial side of the season, when toys were central to Christmas gift-giving and to the stores that sold them.
| Created / published | [between 1908 and 1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geog.; Toys; Holidays. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,054 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158491 |
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