The Christmas tea party – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures The Christmas tea party in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Christmas tea party
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A Christmas tea party staged for the camera, issued as a stereo card by the Standard Scenic Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, around 1906. Viewed through a stereoscope, two nearly identical exposures merge into a single three-dimensional scene, a parlor pastime that was at its height in the early 1900s. The card was registered for copyright by W.S. Smith, and its subject, children gathered at a holiday table, reflects the sentimental domestic scenes that made Christmas a favorite theme of commercial photographers of the period.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Standard Scenic Company, c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H78658 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.S. Smith. No. 1412. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1900-1910. Children eating & drinking--1900-1910. Tea parties--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 728 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170744 |
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