Christmas morning, no. 1 – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Christmas morning, no. 1 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Christmas morning, no. 1
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Children crowd around a heap of gifts in this c1902 print titled "Christmas morning, no. 1," one of the holiday scenes that photographers of the period liked to stage in middle-class homes. The caption card's subject tags, Christmas and toys, point to the moment the picture seems built around: the unwrapping, when a household's presents were first revealed. Early twentieth-century family photographs like this one were often made with simple box or view cameras and needed long exposures, so the scene was usually arranged in advance. Such images now offer a glimpse of how American families marked the holiday around the turn of the century, when mass-produced toys were becoming common in ordinary homes.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Holidays--Christmas; Toys. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149480 |
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