Family Record: Before the War and Since the War – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Family Record: Before the War and Since the War brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Family Record: Before the War and Since the War
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Its title, "Family Record: Before the War and Since the War," frames the picture as a deliberate account of a family across a wartime divide, a theme that carries particular weight in African American history. If the war is the American Civil War, as the board's subject suggests, the phrase would point to the upheaval of emancipation, when families separated by slavery worked to reunite, claim property and records, and establish their own households. Photographs like this were often made to assert respectability and continuity, and to preserve evidence of kinship at a time when legal recognition of Black families had been denied for generations. Looking closely at dress, setting and the arrangement of the people can show how a family chose to present itself after such a rupture.
| Original scan | 6,012 × 7,454 px · prints to 20 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 01821u |
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