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Interior of an Ainu home, showing owner and family, Yezo, Japan – Antique Wall Art

Interior of an Ainu home, showing owner and family, Yezo, Japan, North Bennington, Vt. : H.C. White, c1906. — historic photograph
Interior of an Ainu home, showing owner and family, Yezo, Japan, North Bennington, Vt. : H.C. White, c1906.. 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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Inside a dwelling on Yezo, the older name for Hokkaido, the owner and his family sit among their household belongings, posed in their own home rather than in a studio. The card was issued around 1906 by H.C. White of North Bennington, Vermont, a firm that made stereographs of travel and foreign scenes for home parlor viewers. Such views were popular in the early twentieth century and reflected both real curiosity and a habit of presenting indigenous peoples as exotic subjects. By then Ainu communities were living under Japanese policies that pressed them toward assimilation, so the interior offers a posed but valuable glimpse of everyday domestic life.

Created / publishedNorth Bennington, Vt. : H.C. White, c1906.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreGroup portraits 1900-1910.Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH80076 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White. No. 4011.
SubjectsAinu--Domestic life--Japan--Hokkaido--1900-1910. Interiors--Japan--Hokkaido--1900-1910. Families--Japan--Hokkaido--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-197640

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