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A free lunch / Geo. Barker photographer Niagara Falls New York. – Antique Photo Print

A free lunch / Geo. Barker photographer Niagara Falls New York., 1890 — historic photograph
A free lunch / Geo. Barker photographer Niagara Falls New York., 1890. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(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: A free lunch / Geo. Barker photographer Niagara Falls New York., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Photographed by George Barker in Niagara Falls, New York, this stereograph shows a Black woman nursing a child under the wry title "A free lunch." Barker was known for Niagara views sold to tourists, and cards like this were made for the stereoscope viewers that filled American parlors in the 1890s. Genre scenes of this kind often leaned on racial and domestic stereotypes, so the joke in the title deserves a careful reading. The card's copyright notation shows it was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office to protect it against unauthorized copies.

Created / published1890
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
Notes35935V U.S. Copyright Office. · Carson Marian S. collector.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Women--1890. Breast feeding--1890. Mothers & children--1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,310 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-STV-268048

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