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The Belle of the Yakimas / La Roche, Seattle, Wash. – Antique Print

The Belle of the Yakimas / La Roche, Seattle, Wash., C1899. — historic photograph
The Belle of the Yakimas / La Roche, Seattle, Wash., C1899.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The Belle of the Yakimas / La Roche, Seattle, Wash.

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Few portraits of Yakama women from this period carry a title as openly admiring as "The Belle of the Yakimas," which presents its sitter as a local beauty rather than a named individual. La Roche, a Seattle studio photographer, made the image around 1899, and its registration with the U.S. Copyright Office suggests it was meant for commercial distribution. Photographers in the Pacific Northwest at the time often produced studies of Native sitters for tourists and collectors, and the flattering title shows how such pictures framed their subjects for viewers far from the reservation communities they depicted.

Created / publishedC1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
Notes69038 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1300.
SubjectsIndians of North America--Washington (State)--Women--1890-1900. Yakama Indians--Women--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,298 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178093

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