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[Young woman modeling: Half lgth., wearing broken straw hat] – Antique Print

[Young woman modeling: Half lgth., wearing broken straw hat], c1902. — historic photograph
[Young woman modeling: Half lgth., wearing broken straw hat], c1902.. Historic photograph from the Family Life 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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[Young woman modeling: Half lgth., wearing broken straw hat]

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A young woman, shown from the waist up, wears a straw hat with a visible break in its brim, a detail that sets this c1902 portrait apart from the many tidier hat pictures of the period. Fritz W. Guerin made the photograph, and straw hats were a staple of warm-weather fashion at the time, when a wide, trimmed hat was central to how women dressed in public. The caption card, whose details are unverified, tags the picture with "Glamour" and "Hats," which suggests it was made to show off headwear rather than to record a particular person. Its posed, slightly playful quality is worth noticing as an example of how early photographers approached fashion.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by Fritz W. Guerin. No. 42. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Glamour; Hats.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,235 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147480

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