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Pueblo Indian pottery sellers, Indian reservation, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904 – Antique Print

Pueblo Indian pottery sellers, Indian reservation, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, c1904. — historic photograph
Pueblo Indian pottery sellers, Indian reservation, 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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At the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Pueblo potters set out their wares on the fairgrounds' Indian Reservation, where visitors could watch and buy handmade goods. The fair marked the centennial of the 1803 purchase and drew millions of visitors, and its ethnological displays presented Native peoples as living exhibits. William H. Rau, a Philadelphia photographer known for his stereoview series of expositions, recorded the scene on a stereo card that let viewers see the booths in depth. The image shows how Pueblo craft was being marketed to tourists at the time, a practice that now reads as part of the fair's commercial staging of Native culture.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.
NotesH49928 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by William H. Rau.
SubjectsLouisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.)--Exhibitions & displays. Pueblo Indians--Arts & crafts--1900-1910. Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1900-1910. Indians of North America--Commerce--1900-1910. Pueblo Indians--Commerce--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185144

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