A Porto Rican family [around dining room table] – Historic Reproduction
![A Porto Rican family [around dining room table], c1905. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ac/ac3a0ab91d6f-L.webp)
(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 A Porto Rican family [around dining room table]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A Porto Rican family [around dining room table]
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Gathered around a dining table, a Puerto Rican family is the subject of this stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The Keystone View Company, a Meadville, Pennsylvania firm, issued it around 1905, when stereo cards were a popular parlor entertainment in American homes. The United States had taken control of Puerto Rico in 1898, and the island became a frequent subject of such cards, so the image reflects how mainland publishers presented island life to their audiences. The caption data is old and unverified, so the family's identity and the occasion are unknown, but the scene offers a glimpse of domestic life as it was recorded in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 6254. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Puerto Rico--Misc.--1905; Family groups--1900; Photog. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 791 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139990 |
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