Christmas morning – Vintage 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
Christmas morning comes to life in this stereograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Christmas morning
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Children playing with dolls on Christmas morning is the subject of this stereo card, which the record dates to about 1906. It is a halftone reproduction of an earlier stereoscopic photograph numbered 197, so it was likely part of a numbered series meant for viewing through a stereoscope. Such cards were a common parlor entertainment in the early 1900s, when families looked at three-dimensional scenes of everyday life, travel and holidays. Halftone printing allowed publishers to reproduce photographs cheaply in large runs, which put pictures like this one into many homes.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print on stereo card : stereograph, halftone. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Reproduced from original stereoscopic photograph" No. 197." |
| Subjects | Christmas--1900-1910. Children playing with dolls--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 710 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165406 |
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