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[Amorous situation comedies involving domestics: maid with sooty signs of furnace man on blouse] – Antique Wall Art

[Amorous situation comedies involving domestics: maid with sooty signs of furnace man on blouse], c1905. — historic photograph
[Amorous situation comedies involving domestics: maid with sooty signs of furnace man on blouse], c1905.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 maid's blouse marked with sooty smudges is the punchline of this staged comic scene, which hints that a furnace man has been a little too close for comfort. Stereograph cards like this one, dated to about 1905, were viewed in pairs through a stereoscope at home and often relied on stock situations such as courtship, mischief, and the teasing relations between households and their hired help. The caption card lists the subjects as courtship, humor and domestic servants, but the record itself warns that its details are unverified, so the scene is best read as a period joke rather than a documented event.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.; Courtship; Humor; Domestic servants.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,347 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136565

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