[Maid carrying a tray] – Vintage Print
![[Maid carrying a tray], [ca. 1870] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6f/6fb12d2797fc-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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A maid carrying a tray is the subject here, a scene of domestic service that appeared often in nineteenth-century photography and painting as a glimpse of everyday household life. The date, ca. 1870, comes from a caption card and has not been independently verified, so it is best read as approximate. The print belongs to the George Ferdinand Becker Collection, assembled by the geologist whose gathered photographs and prints are now held by the Library of Congress. Genre pictures like this were often posed studio scenes, so the figure may be a model rather than a particular servant.
| Created / published | [ca. 1870] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | George Ferdinand Becker Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,153 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159884 |
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