Baby / Photograph Company of Chicago. – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Baby / Photograph Company of Chicago. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Baby / Photograph Company of Chicago.
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Catalogued simply as "Baby," this portrait carries the number 614, which suggests it came from a numbered series issued by the Photograph Company of Chicago. Around 1905, studios like this one produced large runs of posed portraits of children, which families bought to mark a birth or a first year and to share with relatives. Chicago was a major center of commercial photography at the time, so portraits of this kind offer a useful glimpse of how ordinary families chose to present their youngest members.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | No. 614. |
| Subjects | Children--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164299 |
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