Dressing the bride – Antique Wall Art
(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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of Dressing the bride. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A bride being dressed in the hour before her ceremony is the subject of this stereograph, one of many scenes of domestic life that stereo publishers sold in the early 1900s. The card was issued by the Sterro-Photo Company of Dolgeville, New York, around 1907, and carries a copyright registration in the name of C.A. Richmond, a figure worth noting for anyone tracing the regional trade in stereo views. Cards like this were viewed through a hand stereoscope, so the two slightly offset images gave the gowned figures a sense of depth that a flat print could not. Wedding dress of the period was elaborate, with layered skirts, lace and long fastenings, so the scene also records the labor involved in getting a bride ready.
| 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 | H95288 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.A. Richmond. No. 1051. |
| Subjects | Weddings--1900-1910. Wedding clothing & dress--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216053 |
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