Thanksgiving Maskers – Historic Reproduction
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Description
This rare historic photograph captures Thanksgiving Maskers in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Thanksgiving Maskers
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Bain News Service, the New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers and magazines, made this glass negative around 1910 to 1915, and its title points to the masked and costumed revelers who once turned Thanksgiving into a night of pranks. Costumed "mummers" and maskers roamed American streets and doorsteps at holiday time, often in disguise and sometimes making noise, a custom borrowed partly from older European Halloween and winter festivities. Glass plates like this one were the standard working medium of the period, so the image shows both the subject and the photographic technology of its day. Its record gives few further details, so it is best read as a snapshot of a holiday custom that was common in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c. 1910-1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | negative, glass, 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Notes | Bain News Service, publisher |
| Original scan | 5,340 × 3,911 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11244 |
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