Christmas day in the morning – Antique 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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Step back in time with Christmas day in the morning, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Christmas day in the morning
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Printed on the back of this stereograph is A.T. Worden's verse "The Gooseville Christmas-tree," which sets the scene before the viewer looks at the front. George Barker, the Niagara Falls photographer named on the card, was known mainly for views of the falls, but by the late 1880s he was also issuing staged scenes of everyday life like this one. Stereographs were viewed through a stereoscope, which merged two slightly offset photographs into one image with depth, and cozy parlor scenes of children with a Christmas tree were popular for home viewing during the holidays. The card was also registered for copyright, a step publishers took to protect their work from being copied.
| Created / published | Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Geo. Barker, c1889. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 13812 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. Barker. On verso: A.T. Worden poem, The Gooseville Christmas-tree."" |
| Subjects | Christmas--1880-1890. Christmas trees--1880-1890. Children playing with toys--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,261 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-188992 |
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