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[Little girl, half lgth., facing front, wearing bonnet, with arms folded and lips puckered] – Antique Print

[Little girl, half lgth., facing front, wearing bonnet, with arms folded and lips puckered], c1902. — historic photograph
[Little girl, half lgth., facing front, wearing bonnet, with arms folded and lips puckered], c1902.. 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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Few pictures of a child look as openly sulky as this one, with arms folded, lips puckered, and a bonnet framing a face turned straight to the camera. The print dates to about 1902 and carries a copyright credit to F.W. Guerin of St. Louis, pointing to the commercial studio trade in which photographers sold character studies of children alongside formal portraits. The caption card tags it "Sentimental" and "Children," suggesting it was valued for mood rather than for who the sitter was, and the child's name is not recorded.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by F.W. Guerin, St. Louis. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sentimental; Ph. Ind.; Children.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,237 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142268

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