A typical courtyard, home of a local policeman on San Michele Street, Trapani, Sicily – Antique 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.)
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A window into the past: A typical courtyard, home of a local policeman on San Michele Street, Trapani, Sicily, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A typical courtyard, home of a local policeman on San Michele Street, Trapani, Sicily
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A courtyard in the home of a local policeman on San Michele Street in Trapani, on the western coast of Sicily, is the detail that sets this stereograph apart from the many views of Italian streets and towns in the collection. Underwood & Underwood, the American firm that issued this card around 1906, sold stereo views in large numbers to households and schools, and their travel series often presented everyday domestic life as a window on foreign places. The image invites a close look at the shared, open-air spaces where families of modest means lived, worked, and washed clothes, a side of Sicilian life that rarely appeared in tourist guidebooks of the period.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. (24) 8577. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Italy--Trapani--1906; Italy--Sicily--1906; Geogr.; Courtyards; Dwellings; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,413 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146765 |
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