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Kling poeple [sic] – Antique Print

Kling poeple [sic], [between ca. 1890 and 1923] — historic photograph
Kling poeple [sic], [between ca. 1890 and 1923]. 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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Kling poeple [sic] 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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This group portrait shows a family from Singapore's Dravidian community, which the original title labels with the colonial-era term "Kling," a name applied broadly to South Indian migrants in the Malay Peninsula. Frank G. Carpenter, an American travel writer, and his wife Frances made photographs like this on their journeys through Asia and used them to illustrate lectures and articles about the peoples they met. Singapore around the turn of the twentieth century was a busy British port where Indian, Chinese and Malay residents lived side by side, though the record dates the print only to between about 1890 and 1923.

Created / published[between ca. 1890 and 1923]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1930.Group portraits 1890-1930.Photographic prints 1890-1930.
NotesFrank and Frances Carpenter Collection. No. 171.
SubjectsFamilies--Singapore--1890-1930. Dravidians--Singapore--1890-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,140 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168922

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