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1923-51
A small gelatin-silver snapshot mounted in a black family album, made by an amateur photographer to record a toddler’s likeness and a moment in everyday life.
A single cut-corner photograph sits alone on the dark page: the child’s white dress and beaming face jump forward against the clapboard house, while a dog at her side and a vintage car in the background place the scene in a lived domestic world.
Part of the domestic-album tradition that flourished with affordable gelatin-silver photography, this kind of image made private memory visible and helped ordinary families shape and preserve their personal histories in the twentieth century.
Medium
Album of 74 gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
8 3/4 × 7 1/2" (22.2 × 19.1 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Peter J. Cohen
Accession
887.2010.2
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