The Benediction – 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.)
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Step back in time with The Benediction, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Unlike the other wedding images on this board, *The Benediction* is a stereograph card: two nearly identical photographs mounted side by side, meant to be viewed through a hand stereoscope so the scene appears to have depth. The Sterro-Photo Co. of Dolgeville, New York, published the card around 1907, and its record credits C.A. Richmond with the copyright. Stereoviews like this were a popular parlor entertainment in the early 1900s, and their makers often chose ceremonial subjects such as weddings and benedictions because they made sentimental, widely appreciated pictures for home viewing.
| Created / published | Dolgeville, N.Y., U.S.A. : Sterro-Photo Co., publishers, c1907. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H95294 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1057. Copyright by C.A. Richmond. |
| Subjects | Weddings--1900-1910. Benedictions--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,448 × 1,165 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216059 |
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