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Composition no. 590 – Antique Print

Composition no. 590, c1899. — historic photograph
Composition no. 590, c1899.. Historic photograph from the Fruit & Vegetable Labels 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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Composition no. 590

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Titled simply *Composition no. 590*, this c1899 photoprint is credited to Donald Roberts of Detroit, Michigan, who held its copyright. The old caption card lists children and a shelf as its subjects, but the record is unverified, so the details of the scene remain uncertain. Photoprints like this were a common late nineteenth-century medium, and "composition" in a title often signaled an interest in how figures and objects were arranged within the frame. Its current place among fruit and vegetable labels reflects a later cataloguing choice rather than anything the maker set out to show.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Donald Roberts, Detroit, Mich. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,979 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-106522

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