Family – Historic 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Family, 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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Rather than a family posed in a parlor, this photograph shows a painted family group on a wall of the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building, recorded around 1898 under the simple title "Family." The building had opened only a year earlier, in 1897, and its interior was filled with murals and sculpture meant to convey ideas about learning, civic life and human progress. The print carries a Curtis and Cameron copyright, which suggests it was made for sale, and firms like theirs helped put images of new public buildings and their art in front of people who could not visit in person.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | H124725 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Curtis and Cameron. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 292. |
| Subjects | Families--1890-1900. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.) Murals--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 763 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165000 |
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