The stag dance – Antique 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 The stag dance, an antique engraving 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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The stag dance
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The title names the scene: a stag dance, in which men dance with other men because there are no women present. Such gatherings were a familiar part of Union army camp life during the Civil War, when soldiers far from home improvised music and dancing to pass their evenings. This wood engraving ran in *Harper's Weekly* on February 6, 1864, on page 93, one of many camp scenes the magazine published for readers following the war. Its wood-engraved style shows how illustrated weeklies turned everyday soldiers' routines into images for a public that could not see the camps for itself.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1864 Feb. 6, p. 93. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dance; Army, U.S.; Civil War--Camp life; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,113 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141027 |
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