[Liberia, West Africa: Nine Mandingo people] – Antique Print
![[Liberia, West Africa: Nine Mandingo people] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b8/b892ce2ad721-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Liberia, West Africa: Nine Mandingo people], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Liberia, West Africa: Nine Mandingo people]
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Nine Mandingo people are the subject of this 1893 photograph from Liberia, a country on the West African coast that had been founded in the 1820s by settlers sent from the United States. The Mandingo, or Manding, are a people whose communities spread across the interior of West Africa, and many of them worked as traders moving goods along long routes between the coast and the inland markets. Images like this one were often made for European and American audiences curious about African peoples, so the posed group and the choice of subject say as much about how outsiders viewed them as about daily life.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [1893] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,094 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137061 |
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