Christmas day in the morning – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Christmas day in the morning. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Christmas day in the morning
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Children gather around a Christmas tree piled with toys in this stereograph, and the poem printed on its back, A.T. Worden's "The Gooseville Christmas-tree," ties the card to the popular verse of its day. George Barker, who published the card around 1889 in Niagara Falls, New York, sold many such views to be seen through a stereoscope in the parlor. Cards like this combined the scene and a verse, and they were often bought as holiday gifts. Christmas trees were still fairly new to many American homes at the time, which makes scenes like this a useful record of how the holiday was celebrated.
| Created / published | Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Geo. Barker, c1889. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 13812 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. Barker. On verso: A.T. Worden poem, The Gooseville Christmas-tree."" |
| Subjects | Christmas--1880-1890. Christmas trees--1880-1890. Children playing with toys--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,131 × 3,000 px · prints to 10 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-107884 |
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