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Mother-in-law adjusting family difficulties / Melander, photographer, 208 E. Ohio St., Chicago. – Antique Photo Print

Mother-in-law adjusting family difficulties / Melander, photographer, 208 E. Ohio St., Chicago., 1889 — historic photograph
Mother-in-law adjusting family difficulties / Melander, photographer, 208 E. Ohio St., Chicago., 1889. Historic photograph from the Chicago collection.

(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 Mother-in-law adjusting family difficulties / Melander, photographer, 208 E. Ohio St., Chicago. 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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Mother-in-law adjusting family difficulties / Melander, photographer, 208 E. Ohio St., Chicago.

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Made in 1889 by the Chicago photographer L. M. Melander, whose studio stood at 208 East Ohio Street, this stereograph carries the title "Mother-in-law adjusting family difficulties." Cards like this were staged comic or genre scenes, meant to be viewed in pairs through a stereoscope in the parlor, a popular home entertainment in the late 1800s. The mother-in-law was a stock figure in the humor of the period, so the title points to a joke that audiences of the day would have recognized at once. The card's number, 41, shows it belonged to a numbered series that the studio sold to customers.

Created / published1889
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo by L.M. Melander. No. 41. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 809 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119591

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