[Christmas tree with children in wheelchairs] – Antique Print
![[Christmas tree with children in wheelchairs], [between 1910 and 1935] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/71/7125e876f9ac-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
A window into the past: [Christmas tree with children in wheelchairs], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Christmas tree with children in wheelchairs]
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Children seated in wheelchairs gather around a Christmas tree in this scene, a detail that sets it apart from the usual holiday pictures on this board. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., commercial studio active in the early twentieth century, made the negative sometime between 1910 and 1935, and its collection later reached the Library of Congress as a gift. Holiday gatherings at hospitals and children's institutions were common in this era, when wheelchairs were a familiar sight in such settings. The record does not name the location, so the exact setting remains unknown.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1935] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : safety film ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Safety film negatives. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,159 × 6,444 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-260352 |
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