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Among the inhabitants of the Arctic Region at the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. – Vintage Print

Among the inhabitants of the Arctic Region at the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., Cincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1904. — historic photograph
Among the inhabitants of the Arctic Region at the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., Cincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1904.. Historic photograph from the Alaska 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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This rare historic photograph captures Among the inhabitants of the Arctic Region at the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few images from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis show its Arctic Region exhibit as directly as this stereograph does, with its inhabitants posed in front of the displays. The card was issued by the Whiting View Company of Cincinnati around 1904, as part of its Twentieth Century Series, and it reflects the fair's habit of presenting Indigenous peoples from far-northern regions as living exhibits. Such displays drew large crowds and were part of a wider fashion for ethnographic exhibitions at world's fairs, which often framed their subjects as curiosities. Stereographs like this one, viewed through a special lens, gave armchair visitors a three-dimensional sense of the fairgrounds.

Created / publishedCincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH53140 U.S. Copyright Office. Arctic Region exhibit with people at Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Copyright by R.R. Whiting. Twentieth Century Series. No. 242.
SubjectsLouisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.)--Exhibitions & displays. Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. Arctic peoples--Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,652 × 3,796 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220611

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