Thanksgiving dinner table – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Thanksgiving dinner table 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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Thanksgiving dinner table
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A stereograph of a laid Thanksgiving table, dated around 1923, shows the holiday meal as a set piece of the early twentieth century, when the family dinner was becoming a fixed national ritual. Keystone View Company, the Meadville, Pennsylvania firm that dominated stereoview production for decades, issued cards like this one for parlor viewers, so the scene was meant to be seen in three dimensions, with the spread of plates and glassware pulled forward into depth. The record's caption details are unverified, so the specific household and table are not confirmed here. Still, the card reflects how mass-produced photography carried domestic holiday customs into middle-class homes.
| Created / published | c1923. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo by Keystone. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,848 × 3,000 px · prints to 19 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119581 |
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