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Seoul, Korea: A primitive grist-mill of the Korean peasants - beating turnip seed into meal – Vintage Print

Seoul, Korea: A primitive grist-mill of the Korean peasants - beating turnip seed into meal, c1904. — historic photograph
Seoul, Korea: A primitive grist-mill of the Korean peasants - beating turnip seed into meal, c1904.. 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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A window into the past: Seoul, Korea: A primitive grist-mill of the Korean peasants - beating turnip seed into meal, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Seoul, Korea: A primitive grist-mill of the Korean peasants - beating turnip seed into meal

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Seoul around 1904 is the setting for this stereograph of a grist-mill, where turnip seed is beaten into meal by hand. The caption calls the mill primitive, a label that reflects an outside observer's view of rural work more than the skill involved. Underwood & Underwood, the American firm that issued the card, sold views like this in large numbers for parlor stereoscopes, so scenes of Korean daily life reached viewers far from Korea. The date and details come from the original caption and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 809 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152517

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