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What is home without a husband? [graphic].
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Creator
Littleton View Co.
Contributor
Underwood & Underwood, distributor.
Title
What is home without a husband? [graphic].
Publisher
Littleton, N.H. : Littleton View Co. publishers
Publisher
N.H. Littleton. 1889
Date
c1889
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
Faded genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role reversal of men and women in the home. Shows the woman of the house, shawl draped over her arm, who has just entered the room from outside. Her husband sits on a stool doing housework near the fireplace. Their pet cat sits on the floor near his feet.
Is part of
Unidentified series 1486
Notes
Copyright 1889 by Littleton View Co.
Title printed on mount below image.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Baltimore, Md., Ottawa, Kan.
Buff curved mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Erika Piola.
Subject
Men.
Women.
Spouses.
Relations between the sexes.
Women's rights.
Housework.
Cats.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Stereographs -- 1880-1890.
Genre photographs -- 1880-1890.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1880-1890.
Printer
Underwood & Underwood, distributor.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Miscellaneous - Littleton View Co. [P.2003.32.1]
Accession number
P.2003.32.1
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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