Freak Mexican boy – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with Freak Mexican boy, a historic photograph rich in period 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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Freak Mexican boy
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The record gives this portrait of a Mexican boy the title "Freak," a term that reflects how disabled people were displayed as curiosities in the early 1900s. A.R. Alexander registered the print for copyright around 1915, which suggests it may have been made to be sold or circulated rather than kept as a private family picture. Images like this were common in traveling shows, medical catalogs and novelty postcards, where the subject's condition became the entire point. Today the picture is more useful as evidence of those practices than as a record of the child, whose name the record does not give.
| Created / published | c1915. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J199421 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A.R. Alexander. |
| Subjects | Birth defects--1910-1920. Handicapped persons--Children--Mexico--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180977 |
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