A child of the Orient – Vintage Print
![A child of the Orient, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/75/75ff6a383eb0-L.webp)
(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 print captures A child of the Orient in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A child of the Orient
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The title places this portrait under "the Orient," a broad and loaded label that Western photographers of the late 1800s and early 1900s often applied to people from many different parts of Asia and the Middle East. The caption card gives no date and does not name the sitter, so the picture's origins must be traced through its source, the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, which holds work from her long career in portraiture and documentary photography. Today's viewers will want to read the title critically, since it reflects the outlook of its era rather than the child's own name, home, or identity.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Children. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,189 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145665 |
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