Prosit – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Prosit, 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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The title "Prosit" is the German toast meaning roughly "to your health," which suggests a convivial moment captured in this c1902 photographic print from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. The record offers few details about the sitters or the maker, so the title is the most useful clue to its context. German-speaking communities in the United States and Europe often marked gatherings with this toast over beer or wine, and informal scenes like this became more common around the turn of the twentieth century as cameras grew cheaper and reproduction methods improved.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1902. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,125 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172260 |
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