Thanksgiving dinner table – Historic Reproduction
(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 Thanksgiving dinner table, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Thanksgiving dinner table
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A stereograph card of a laid Thanksgiving table, dated around 1923, offers a close look at how a holiday meal was staged for the camera in the early 1920s. Stereo cards like this were made by companies such as Keystone, which produced paired images viewed through a hand-held stereoscope to create a sense of depth. The caption information attached to this record is unverified and comes from an old card, so the exact setting and sitters are not confirmed. Still, the image fits a period when Thanksgiving was firmly established as a national family holiday and the formal dinner table was a common subject for commercial photographers.
| Created / published | c1923. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo by Keystone. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 788 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119581 |
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