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Moki corn festival, Indian camp, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904 – Historic Reproduction

Moki corn festival, Indian camp, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, c1904. — historic photograph
Moki corn festival, Indian camp, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, c1904.. Historic photograph from the St. Louis 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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Moki corn festival, Indian camp, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few views from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition show a ceremony rather than a fairground spectacle, and this stereograph records a Moki, or Hopi, corn festival staged in an Indian camp on the fairgrounds. The fair included ethnological displays that set Native peoples in reconstructed villages for visitors to observe, and the scene reflects that arrangement. William H. Rau, a Philadelphia photographer known for travel and exposition views, made the image, and stereo cards like this one were sold widely to fairgoers and armchair viewers. Today the card is valuable for what it shows about how the fair presented Native American religious life to a public audience.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.
NotesH52206 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by William H. Rau.
SubjectsLouisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.)--Exhibitions & displays. Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1900-1910. Hopi Indians--Spiritual life--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185141

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