Grooming the horse – Historic Print
(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 Grooming the horse, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Grooming the horse
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Grooming the horse" is a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs that, viewed through a stereoscope, merge into one image with apparent depth. The Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, printed it around 1919, and the firm was among the best-known American publishers of stereo cards in the 1910s. Horses still did much of the work on farms and in towns at that time, so daily care such as brushing and currying was a routine part of working life. Keystone cards were sold for parlor viewing and home instruction, and scenes like this one record ordinary labor that was soon to change as motor vehicles spread.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1919 April 23. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J233978 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 20069. |
| Subjects | Animal grooming--1910-1920. Horses--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,000 × 821 px |
| Reference | 1889_Grooming_the_horse_1919 |
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