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[Man posed with pousse-pousse in Tonkin Village, Paris Exposition, 1889] – Antique Print

[Man posed with pousse-pousse in Tonkin Village, Paris Exposition, 1889], [1889] — historic photograph
[Man posed with pousse-pousse in Tonkin Village, Paris Exposition, 1889], [1889]. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs 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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[Man posed with pousse-pousse in Tonkin Village, Paris Exposition, 1889]

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At the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, a man stands beside a pousse-pousse, the two-wheeled chair pulled by a runner that was a common form of transport in Vietnam. The fair's Tonkin Village was one of several colonial displays meant to show visitors life in France's new Indochinese territories, which the country had gained control of in the 1880s. The albumen print captures how these reconstructed exhibits presented colonial subjects to European audiences as curiosities, and the fair's grand scale, including the newly built Eiffel Tower, shaped how such scenes were seen and recorded.

Created / published[1889]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1890.
SubjectsExposition universelle de 1889--(Paris, France) Exhibitions--France--Paris--1880-1890. Wheeled chairs--Vietnamese--France--Paris--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185943

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