Untitled
c. 1900
A small gelatin-silver family photograph mounted in an album, made to preserve a private moment—children in a garden—around 1900 as a keepsake.
A tiny, rounded print set into gray album paper draws the eye: two children in white dresses and large bonnets stand among low garden plants with trees and lawn chairs blurred behind them, the scene rendered in gentle silvery contrasts like a private window into a past afternoon.
This albumed snapshot exemplifies how turn-of-the-century gelatin-silver photography made everyday life collectible and portable, helping ordinary families record, shape, and transmit intimate memories of childhood and domestic life.
Medium
Album of 48 gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
5 1/4 × 7 1/8" (13.3 × 18.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Peter J. Cohen
Accession
891.2010.15
Palette
Art Terms
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