AA-2026-D492A3
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A girl of about twelve sits on an upholstered armchair in a modest American living room, posed for a color photograph in what was still the formal convention of the era: a moment staged and held for the camera, not candid. She wears a white short-sleeved blouse with small blue dots and a navy satin skirt, the kind of coordinated outfit a parent bought all at once from the same department store rack, confident the combination would photograph well. Behind her, patterned wallpaper and venetian blinds mark the bounds of a space barely twelve feet across. The girl smiles directly at the lens with the compliance expected of a child being documented, her curled hair set the day before and still holding its shape. This is what a family portrait looked like when color film was new enough to be a spending decision and when sitting still for a camera was the only way to prove a moment had happened at all.
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Portrait of a Girl in a 1950s Living Room. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-D492A3. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/portrait-of-a-girl-in-a-1950s-living-room.
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note = {Accession AA-2026-D492A3},
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