The old curiosity shop of Dickens' story, home of Little Nell, London – Antique 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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The old curiosity shop of Dickens' story, home of Little Nell, London
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Tucked into a narrow lane near Lincoln's Inn Fields, this timber-fronted shop is the building London has long tied to Charles Dickens's 1841 novel *The Old Curiosity Shop*, whose young heroine, Little Nell, made the place famous. Whether the building is old enough, or really the model Dickens had in mind, is debated, but tourists came to see it in the early twentieth century. This stereo card from Underwood & Underwood, issued around 1914, shows how stereoviewers carried such sights into parlors, and the company sold these paired images in large numbers, so the card records a popular tourist view as much as the building itself.
| Created / published | New York ; London ; Toronto-Canada ; Ottawa-Kansas : Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, c1914 August 26. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J195500 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. U-140164. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. On mount under Sun Sculpture Trade Mark: Works and Studios - Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J. |
| Subjects | Old Curiosity Shop (London, England)--1910-1920. Stores & shops--England--London--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,303 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209494 |
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