Solid comfort – Historic Reproduction
(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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Solid comfort" is the title, and the caption card's notes point to a scene of eating and tobacco use, possibly made for advertising. The phrase suggests the easy contentment of a meal followed by a smoke, a sentiment that advertisers of the period often used to sell both food and tobacco. This photoprint is one of many inexpensive photomechanical images from the early 1900s, when copyrighted photographic views and genre scenes were widely reproduced and sold. The record is unverified, so the exact maker's intent and the original advertising use remain uncertain.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Joseph Forschbach. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Eating...; Tobacco; Advert.; Ph. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,063 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158202 |
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