Esquimaux village – Historic Reproduction
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(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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This rare historic photograph captures Esquimaux village in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The title names an "Esquimaux village," one of the living ethnographic displays at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, in 1901, where Inuit residents were shown to fairgoers. The fair opened that spring and is remembered as the site of President William McKinley's assassination in September. Such villages were a popular feature of world's fairs, presenting Indigenous peoples as curiosities of a supposedly vanishing way of life. Frances Benjamin Johnston made the photograph, so the print documents both the fair and the staged domestic scenes that exhibitions like this offered to the public.
| Created / published | [1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Title from item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Pan-American Exposition--(1901 :--Buffalo, N.Y.)--Exhibitions & displays. Eskimos--Exhibitions--New York (State)--Buffalo--1900-1910. Eskimos--Domestic life--New York (State)--Buffalo--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 917 × 745 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-211464 |
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