Christmas dolls – Historic 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Christmas dolls, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mounted on a stereo card and issued by the Keystone View Company, this picture belongs to the stereograph craze that filled American parlors in the early twentieth century. Two nearly identical photographs viewed through a hand stereoscope gave scenes like this one, of children absorbed in play with their dolls, a striking sense of depth. The record dates the image to about 1919 and links it to Christmas, so it offers a glimpse of how holiday play was pictured in the years just after the First World War.
| Created / published | c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 21320. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children--Playing with dolls; Photog. I.; Holidays--Christmas--1919; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 826 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141357 |
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