An Arctic Village - Eskimos among their topeks (tents) and snow-igloo (right), World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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An Arctic Village - Eskimos among their topeks (tents) and snow-igloo (right), World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.
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A stereo card from the Arctic Region exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis shows a village of tents, captioned as "topeks," with a snow igloo at right. World's fairs of this era often staged living displays of Indigenous peoples, presenting them as curiosities of a supposedly vanishing way of life. Underwood & Underwood of New York issued such stereographs in large numbers, and visitors and armchair viewers used a stereoscope to see the scene in apparent depth. The caption's wording reflects the period's language, so the card is best read as a record of how the fair framed the people it displayed.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : Underwood & Underwood, c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H49651 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Arctic Region exhibit at Louisiana Purchase Exposition. |
| Subjects | Louisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.)--Exhibitions & displays. Eskimos--Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,647 × 3,786 px · prints to 15 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220614 |
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