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The home circle – Antique Wall Art

The home circle, c1889. — historic photograph
The home circle, c1889.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: The home circle, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Kilburn Brothers numbered this stereograph 5288, and its caption tracings point to a domestic scene of mothers, children, and baby carriages around 1889. Stereo cards like this were sold by the thousands in the late 1800s, and viewed through a stereoscope they gave parlor audiences a sense of depth that flat pictures lacked. The firm is generally linked to Littleton, New Hampshire, so the New York location on the card may be an error, and the record itself flags its data as unverified. The title, *The home circle*, suits the sentimental family subjects that sold well to middle-class households.

Created / publishedc1889.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.Y. No. 5288. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Baby carriages; Mothers and children--1889; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,388 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141614

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