Family Christmas dinner, 1921 – 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.)
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Family Christmas dinner, 1921 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Family Christmas dinner, 1921
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This 1921 holiday portrait is one of the photographs Alexander Graham Bell chose himself for the album that became the *Beinn Bhreagh Recorder* collection, a record of his family life at his estate in Nova Scotia. The subjects include Bell, who was 74 and would die the following year, along with his sons-in-law Gilbert H. Grosvenor, later editor of *National Geographic*, and botanist David Fairchild. Bell's own selection of the picture suggests how much he valued these gatherings, which he kept as a family record rather than as formal publicity.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1920-1930.Group portraits 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from caption. In album: Photographs of Alexander Graham Bell : Selected by him for preservation in the Beinn Bhreagh Recorder. Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Bell, Alexander Graham,--1847-1922--Family. Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey,--1875-1966--Family. Fairchild, David,--1869-1954--Family. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,273 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-198272 |
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