Watch meeting – Vintage 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Watch meeting in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Watch meeting" names a New Year's Eve vigil, a service held on the last night of the year when congregations gathered to pray and wait for midnight. By the 1870s such services were common in American churches, and the custom was especially strong in Methodist and Black congregations, where people looked back on the year past and asked for guidance in the year ahead. This chromolithograph, issued by J. Latham & Company around 1878, is one of many color prints of the period that brought scenes of religious and town life into ordinary homes at modest cost. Its place among the winter prints suits the subject, since the service falls at the close of the year.
| Created / published | J. Latham & Company, c1878. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | 13280(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J. Latham & Co. |
| Subjects | Churches--1870-1880. Religious services--1870-1880. City & town life--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 9,143 × 6,711 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 01989u watch meeting |
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