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Dressed for the party – Antique Wall Art

Dressed for the party, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Dressed for the party, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Titled "Dressed for the party," this stereograph carries the number 163 and the name of its publisher, L.M. Melander. Its caption card records no date, but stereo cards of this kind were produced in large numbers from the 1860s into the early 1900s, when parlor stereoscopes were a common form of home entertainment. Pairs of nearly identical photographs, viewed through a lens, gave a sense of depth, and scenes like this one, with staged or costumed figures, were meant to amuse viewers and were often collected in numbered series.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo by L.M. Melander. No. 163. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 798 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119590

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