A-listnin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about – Vintage Print
![A-listnin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about, [ca. 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6c/6c4b403db3ba-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of A-listnin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A-listnin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about
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A girl listening intently to "the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about" gives this platinum print its particular character, since the title is a line of dialect verse rather than a plain description. The phrase comes from James Whitcomb Riley's poem "Dream Children," which Elizabeth B. Brownell illustrated for a Bowen-Merrill edition published in Indianapolis in 1901. Platinum printing, prized around 1900 for its soft tonal range and matte surface, suited the gentle, storybook mood of such book illustrations. The record also notes that the work was earlier attributed to the photographer Emma Justine Farnsworth.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : platinum ; 21.2 x 13 cm. on black mount, 28.6 x 25.4 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900.Book illustrations 1900.Platinum prints 1900. |
| Notes | Previously attributed to Emma Justine Farnsworth. Title from Dream children. On verso: Dream Children. Copyrighted. Farnsworth. DLC Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 146. Published in: Dream children / edited and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Brownell. Indianapolis : Bowen-Merrill, 1901, p. 67. |
| Subjects | Girls--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 949 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141193 |
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