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Faux Snow — An Online Exhibit of Manipulated Victorian Winter Photographs from the American Museum of Photography

Faux Snow — An Online Exhibit of Manipulated Victorian Winter Photographs from the American Museum of Photography

An Exhibit of Albumen Prints from Wet Plate Collodion Negatives made in studios but showing snow, snowballs, snowfalls and winter sports

Fredricks & Koester (St. Paul, Minnesota) 
Couple on Toboggan
Albumen Cabinet Card, 4 x 5.75 inches, circa 1885

This photograph may represent wintertime courtship during the Victorian era. Where the young man is pushing off from the “hillside,” the photographer has simulated a spray of snow.

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