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Wedding Day, Harlem, 1926 / Van DerZee, NYC. – Historic Print

Wedding Day, Harlem, 1926 / Van DerZee, NYC., [1926, printed ca. 1974] — historic photograph
Wedding Day, Harlem, 1926 / Van DerZee, NYC., [1926, printed ca. 1974]. Historic photograph from the Weddings 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 window into the past: Wedding Day, Harlem, 1926 / Van DerZee, NYC., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Wedding Day, Harlem, 1926 / Van DerZee, NYC.

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Few Harlem wedding pictures from the 1920s show this much formal care, and James Van DerZee, the neighborhood studio photographer, made this one from his shop on West 135th Street. He built his reputation on carefully composed portraits, and his images of bridal parties record the clothing, the family groupings, and the pride of Black New Yorkers during the Harlem Renaissance. This print was made around 1974, decades after the negative was exposed, as number 2 of 75 editions in an eighteen-photograph portfolio published in Washington, D.C., that year.

Created / published[1926, printed ca. 1974]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1920-1930.Portrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesTitle from portfolio table of contents. Signed in pencil on mount. In portfolio: James Van DerZee, eighteen photographs. Edition: 2/75. Washington, D.C. : Graphics International Ltd., 1974, plate XII.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Social life--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Brides--1920-1930. Wedding clothing & dress--1920-1930. Grooms (Weddings)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,282 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-188819

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