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[West Africa, 1909: group of nearly-naked women with several goats] – Antique Print

[West Africa, 1909: group of nearly-naked women with several goats], c1909. — historic photograph
[West Africa, 1909: group of nearly-naked women with several goats], c1909.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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[West Africa, 1909: group of nearly-naked women with several goats] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A stereograph of a group of women with several goats, captioned as West Africa in 1909, makes this card distinct from the many views of the region that circulated then. Underwood & Underwood, the Ohio-born firm that became one of the largest publishers of stereo cards, sold such scenes to households with parlor stereoscopes, where paired images gave a sense of three-dimensional travel. The caption information comes from an old card and has not been verified, so the exact location and people shown remain uncertain. Viewers today should also read the image with care, since these commercial travel views often arranged subjects for an outside audience's curiosity.

Created / publishedc1909.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,051 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141140

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