A typical group of Patagonians under their sheepskin tent - a race of South American giants, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A. / International View Co., photographers and publishers, Decatur, Illinois. – Vintage Photo 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 A typical group of Patagonians under their sheepskin tent - a race of South American giants, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A. / International View Co., photographers and publishers, Decatur, Illinois., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A typical group of Patagonians under their sheepskin tent - a race of South American giants, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A. / International View Co., photographers and publishers, Decatur, Illinois.
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Few visitors to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis forgot the Patagonian village, where people from the Tehuelche region of southern South America lived in view of the crowds. This card shows a family group in front of a tent of sheepskin hides, a dwelling that was meant to look authentic. The "race of giants" wording was showmanship. Visitors were tall by the standards of the day, and fair organizers and promoters built an exhibit around that novelty, which tells us as much about early twentieth-century ethnological displays as it does about the people pictured.
| Created / published | Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. : International View Co., c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1900-1910.Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H60913 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. |
| Subjects | Louisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.)--Exhibitions & displays. Patagonians--Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,657 × 3,786 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220612 |
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