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First of April. [graphic].
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Contributor
Cremer, James, 1821-1893, distributor.
Title
First of April. [graphic].
Publisher
United States
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1870
Date
[ca. 1870]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount, hand-colored ; 8 x 17.5 cm. (3 x 7 in.)
Description
April's Fools Day interior genre scene showing a man attired in a dressing gown holding the limp body of cat upside down by its tail. His wife, daughter, and a boy in uniform, possibly his son, observe nearby. The boy crouches near wicker baskets from which the man pulled the cat's body.
Notes
Title from printed label pasted on verso.
Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Stereoscopes and views, wholesale and retail.
Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, No. 31.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Cats.
Joking.
Families.
Portraits and genre.
Genre
Stereographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Genre photographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Printer
Cremer, James, 1821-1893, distributor.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.9022.67]
Accession number
P.9022.67
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