A fishing smack – 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.)
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A fishing smack comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A fishing smack
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The title "A fishing smack" plays on two meanings of "smack": a small sailing fishing vessel and a loud kiss. The subjects listed for this stereograph, children, fishing, and kissing, suggest the pun is the point. New York publisher Strohmeyer & Wyman issued it around 1899, and it was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Stereograph cards like this were viewed through a hand stereoscope in parlors, where two slightly offset photographs merged into one three-dimensional scene. They remain a useful record of late nineteenth-century sentiment and humor.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : Strohmeyer & Wyman, publishers, c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 56245 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1. |
| Subjects | Children--1890-1900. Fishing--1890-1900. Kissing--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177793 |
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