A Chinese family – Historic Reproduction
(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 Chinese family. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Chinese family
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Labeled simply "A Chinese family" on its caption card, this stereograph is filed under China and family groups. Keystone View Company, a Pennsylvania firm that issued stereo cards for home viewers in the early twentieth century, produced cards like this one. Each card held two nearly identical photographs meant to be seen through a hand viewer, which fused them into a single image with a sense of depth. The record notes that its data is unverified, so the sitters and exact setting remain uncertain, but the card shows how commercial travel imagery shaped American views of China around 1931.
| Created / published | c1931 Sept. 12. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | J9890 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 23858. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: China; Family Groups. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,162 × 1,140 px · prints to 7 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 17886u A Chinese family |
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