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[Alaska - Juneau - native women seling curios] – Vintage Wall Art

[Alaska - Juneau - native women seling curios], c1895. — historic photograph
[Alaska - Juneau - native women seling curios], c1895.. 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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This photograph shows women selling curios in Juneau, Alaska, a gold-rush town that by the mid-1890s was a busy stop for steamships carrying tourists north from Seattle. Its caption card, which is unverified, labels the sellers "Eskimos," a term used loosely at the time for Indigenous peoples of Alaska, and the names of the women are not recorded. Souvenir baskets, carvings, and beadwork like these were a common way for Native makers to earn money from visitors, so the scene offers a glimpse of that trade at the waterfront.

Created / publishedc1895.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Winter & Pond. #250. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Eskimos; Alaska--Juneau; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,238 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124970

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