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[Little old man of the woods] – Historic Print

[Little old man of the woods], c[between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Little old man of the woods], c[between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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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Rather than a view of a place, this glass negative records a painting: a copy of a work signed by Irving R. Bacon, an American illustrator, and titled *Little old man of the woods*. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold photographs and reproductions of art and scenery in the early twentieth century, made the copy, so the image gives us the painting itself rather than an original scene. Reproductions like this circulated widely as postcards and prints in the years between about 1900 and 1920, when illustrated magazines and popular picture markets were expanding.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
NotesTitle from jacket. Photograph of a painting signed Irving R. Bacon." Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 050163
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 779 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77965

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