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[Cover of Jack London, The Call of the Wild, in Indonesian, showing dog sled team] – Historic Print

[Cover of Jack London, The Call of the Wild, in Indonesian, showing dog sled team], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Cover of Jack London, The Call of the Wild, in Indonesian, showing dog sled team], [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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[Cover of Jack London, The Call of the Wild, in Indonesian, showing dog sled team]

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Jack London's *The Call of the Wild* traveled well beyond the American frontier, and this print records an Indonesian-language edition with a team of sled dogs on its cover. London's 1903 novel follows Buck, a large dog taken from a California estate and sold into hard labor pulling sleds during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s. The caption card gives no date, so the year of this edition is unknown, but the cover shows how a story about a domestic animal reverting to the wild reached readers on the other side of the world.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
Notescf: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Summer 1983, p. 265. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Books; Dog teams.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,138 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156392

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