Eskimo family on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska – Vintage 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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Eskimo family on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska
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The setting for this print is the Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska, where a family is pictured along its banks. The image is a photogravure, a process that turned photographs into fine-grained ink prints, and it was reproduced in a government *Report on Education in Alaska* published in 1886. Its record names the photographers as Hartmann & Weinland, though the catalog notes that the caption information is old and unverified. The report was part of a broader federal effort to document conditions in Alaska in the years after the territory's purchase from Russia, so the picture reflects the outside interest in Alaska's Native peoples at that time. The term "Eskimo" in the original caption is an 1880s usage; many communities in the region now identify as Yup'ik.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photogravure. |
| Notes | Photogravures from photos by Hartmann & Weinland. Repr. in Report on Education in Alaska |
| Subjects | Senate Ex. Doc. 85. 1886. p. 62. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.; Indians--Eskimos; Fmaily groups. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 825 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145192 |
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