Boys with faces in pies at a pie-eating contest – Antique Wall Art
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Boys with faces in pies at a pie-eating contest comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Boys with faces in pies at a pie-eating contest
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Two boys with their faces buried in pies make the detail that sets this picture apart from the other food-contest scenes on the board: they are not eating with forks but diving in headfirst, hands behind their backs or pinned at their sides. Pie-eating contests were a popular form of small-town entertainment in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, often staged at county fairs, church picnics and harvest festivals, where crowds gathered to laugh at the messy results. The picture's placement among apple labels and fruit-themed material hints at the orchard-town festivals where apple pies were a natural centerpiece.
| Original scan | 1,355 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 09181u pie eating |
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