The Boy and the Shell
date: label: date made
content: mid-late 1800s
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: black and white stereograph mounted on grey cardstock; printed on verso "The Boy and the Shell / "____ I've seen / A curious child applying to his ear / The convolutions of a smooth-lip'd shell, / To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul / Listen'd intently; and his countenance soon / Brightened with joy, for murmuring from within / Were heard sonorous cadences, whereby to his belief / The monitor express'd mysterious union with its native sea." / Wordsworth's, "Excursion.""; image of sculpted figurine, seated boy holding a shell to his left ear
topic: label: Subject
content: Boys
label: Subject
content: Sculpture
label: Subject
content: Children
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0523
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0523
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm