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My Old Kentucky Home"" – Vintage Print

My Old Kentucky Home"" — historic print
My Old Kentucky Home"". Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with My Old Kentucky Home"", a historic print 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 title names Stephen Foster's 1853 parlor ballad, which became one of the most recognized songs in American life. The house most often tied to it is Federal Hill in Bardstown, Kentucky, a brick home that Foster is traditionally said to have seen on a visit, though the link rests more on local legend than documentation. By around 1903, when this print was made, the song had become a popular emblem of Kentucky and of a nostalgic image of the Old South. Worth noticing is how a sentimental tune turned one private house into a symbol of an entire state.

Medium1 print.
Notesc1903.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,221 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124920

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