Syce – Historic Print
(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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Syce comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A syce was a stable servant, usually a groom who walked, washed, and tended the horses of officers and officials in India and nearby British colonies, and the title names that role rather than a particular place or person. The record is thin: it gives a September 1897 date, an 8 x 10 inch glass negative, and a Detroit Publishing Company number, and it notes that the attribution rests on the style of the title and numbering. Like many of the company's late-nineteenth-century glass plates, the picture was made for sale as a souvenir view of far-off peoples and occupations, so it reflects how Western buyers of the period were shown colonial life.
| Created / published | 1897 Sept. 4. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution based on style of title and numbering. 607" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021977. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 800 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-65003 |
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