"Cupid Awake" Angel - M. G. Parkinson vintage photo Baby's room photo -

"Cupid Awake" vintage framed photo of angel framed in oval chain encircled frame. 81/2" x 11". Sepia color. glass enclosure. Signature of artist on left lower corner. Copyright printed on arrow. "Cupid Awake" is a photograph taken by M.B. Parkinson in 1897 of Josephine Anderson, the four-year-old daughter of a friend. Parkinson often babysat Josephine for his friend, a working single mother. The photographs were copyrighted the same year, 1897, and published/distributed by Taber Prang Art Co of Springfield, Massachusetts. At some point in the early 1900s, the Ohio Art Company began putting them in the picture frames produced for five-and-dime stores. People enjoyed the images so much, they bought the frames just for the photographs inside, and the images became very popular. Excellent condition.