A raal convanience - a woife a country farm-yard in Ireland – Antique Wall Art
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A window into the past: A raal convanience - a woife a country farm-yard in Ireland, preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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A raal convanience - a woife a country farm-yard in Ireland
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The caption sets this card apart with a joke rather than a landmark: "A Raal Convanience," whose misspellings imitate a supposed rural dialect and whose punchline casts a wife as a handy farm fixture. Underwood & Underwood, the American firm credited on the card, sold stereographs in enormous numbers in the early 1900s, and comic scenes like this were a staple that often leaned on stereotypes about country life and marriage. The catalog tags, including "Marriage," "Sewing," and "Shelf," point to the joke's theme, though the record itself notes that these details are unverified.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Marriage...; Photog. I.; Ire.--Misc.--[1903]; Ire.--M- Co.; Farms--Misc.; Sewing; Shelf. |
| Original scan | 1,392 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-134804 |
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