3 women modelling dresses: A frock of Du-Bel – Vintage 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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A window into the past: 3 women modelling dresses: A frock of Du-Bel, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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3 women modelling dresses: A frock of Du-Bel
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Three women model dresses in this 1919 print, and its caption singles out a "frock of Du-Bel," a label the record does not explain further. The photograph was made by Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm known for mass-produced photographs, and it was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office as a photoprint. By 1919, fashion was moving away from the heavy, restrictive styles of the prewar years toward looser, simpler silhouettes, so pictures like this one show how commercial photography presented new clothing to the public.
| Created / published | c1919 Oct. 1. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | J237053 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Clothing and Dress--1919; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 982 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151260 |
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