~The Family Photograph Tree. Lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1871

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TitleThe Family Photograph Tree

Creator nameCurrier & Ives

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsLithograph

LocationLibrary of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001699059/

Accession numberPGA - Currier & Ives--Family photograph tree

SubjectsPortrait photographyGenealogyPhotography--History--19th century

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4. “Baby’s Picture Is Always Treasured”: Eugenics and the Reproduction of Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album

Shawn Michelle Smith

American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

To twentieth-century readers accustomed to the now ubiquitous nature of “baby’s photograph,” R.H.E.’s observation about the stupidity of these images seems either shocking or wonderfully perverse...

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Shawn Michelle Smith

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.113-135

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00342.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23316&redirecttoanchor=92195

Chapter subject tags:Racism--United States--History--19th centuryPortrait photography--United States--History--19th centurySocial classes--United States--History--19th centuryFamily archives--United States--19th centuryDaguerreotype--United States--History--19th centuryEugenics--United States--History--19th century

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