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[Small boy with large camera] – Historic Print

[Small boy with large camera] — historic photograph
[Small boy with large camera]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A small boy stands beside a camera far too large for him, and the picture plays on that mismatch of child and machine. The record gives no date, and its subject tags are unverified, so the exact moment and maker are unknown. Still, the tracing "Children & photog." points to a common early-twentieth-century theme: photography was becoming a hobby and a novelty, and studio portraits and staged scenes often cast children as playful stand-ins for the adult craft. Photographs like this one tell us as much about how people pictured childhood and technology as about the boy himself.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsMcLean Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children & photog.--; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,240 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138313

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