Columbia '09 students as Zulus – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Columbia '09 students as Zulus, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Columbia '09 students as Zulus
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Columbia students from the class of 1909 posed in Zulu costumes, a detail that places the picture within the college stunt dress and minstrel-style performance common in that period. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers, made the glass negative, which is now part of the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified data on the negative or its caption card, so the occasion is unknown. Costumes like these drew on racist stereotypes of Africans and African Americans, and they are worth viewing critically as evidence of how such imagery circulated among young men of the time.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,791 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12964 |
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