The Song of India – Vintage Photo 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: The Song of India, preserved in this stereograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Song of India
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The title, *The Song of India*, suggests a staged, romanticized scene rather than a documentary view, a common approach in commercial stereographs of the late 1920s. Cards like this were viewed through a hand-held stereoscope, which fused two slightly offset photographs into a single three-dimensional image and made posed scenes popular as parlor entertainment. The card carries a copyright notice from Exhibit Supply Co., with Underwood & Underwood listed as the copyright claimant. That firm had been one of the largest stereoview publishers in the early twentieth century, so the card reflects the popular taste of its era more than a record of any particular place.
| Created / published | 1928 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No. A-785-15. · Underwood & Underwood copyright claimant. |
| Subjects | Women--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,608 × 2,328 px · prints to 15 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271506 |
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