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[Street scene in Javanese Village showing workers, Paris Exposition, 1889] – Historic Photograph Print

[Street scene in Javanese Village showing workers, Paris Exposition, 1889], [1889] — historic photograph
[Street scene in Javanese Village showing workers, Paris Exposition, 1889], [1889]. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs 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: [Street scene in Javanese Village showing workers, Paris Exposition, 1889], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Street scene in Javanese Village showing workers, Paris Exposition, 1889]

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Few attractions at the 1889 Exposition Universelle drew as much curiosity as the Javanese village, a reconstructed settlement where workers went about daily tasks in a street built to resemble one in the Dutch East Indies. This albumen print records that street and the people working in it, showing how the fair staged colonial life for paying visitors. The Exposition marked the centennial of the French Revolution, and its displays were a major part of the event alongside the newly built Eiffel Tower. Photographs like this one are a useful record of how such fairs presented other cultures to European audiences.

Created / published[1889]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1890.
SubjectsExposition universelle de 1889--(Paris, France) Exhibitions--France--Paris--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185952

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