The family photograph tree – Vintage Photo 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.)
Description
The family photograph tree comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The family photograph tree
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As the title suggests, this lithograph takes the familiar family tree and makes photographs its subject, with the relatives' likenesses presented as the branches of one shared line. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued it around 1871, produced inexpensive prints for a wide middle-class market, and this one reflects how photography had become part of ordinary domestic life. By the early 1870s, cartes de visite and family albums were a common way to record relatives, so the image would have been easy for its first viewers to read and enjoy.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1871. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2002 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,033 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113670 |
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