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Keystone View Company — The Empty Crib. "We're nearer to the other shore since the baby died"

Keystone View Company

The Empty Crib. "We're nearer to the other shore since the baby died"

1899

Grief and Victorian mourning customs are sensitively portrayed in a stereo photograph that demonstrates the medium's capacity for emotional storytelling and domestic documentation.

Medium
Albumen print, stereo

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Keystone View Company, The Empty Crib. "We're nearer to the other shore since the baby died", 1899

Grief and Victorian mourning customs are sensitively portrayed in a stereo photograph that demonstrates the medium's capacity for emotional storytelling and domestic documentation.

Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Year
1899
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Albumen Print, Stereo Photograph, American, Somber, Infant, Melancholic, Domestic, Interior

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