A happy family in thatched hut of the Korean peasant, Seoul, Korea – Vintage 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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A window into the past: A happy family in thatched hut of the Korean peasant, Seoul, Korea, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A happy family in thatched hut of the Korean peasant, Seoul, Korea
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A thatched hut of straw and mud, the kind of low dwelling common in the countryside around Seoul, serves as the setting for this stereograph of a family at home. The card was issued by the Keystone View Company under the copyright of B.L. Singley, a firm that sold stereo views of distant places to American parlors in the early twentieth century. Paired images like this produced a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope, giving Western audiences a close look at daily life in Korea, which was then the Korean Empire, less than a decade before Japan annexed it in 1910. The caption's description of the family is unverified, so the scene is best read as a commercial view of rural domestic life, shaped by what its buyers expected to see.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 14084. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.; Dwellings. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,370 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146155 |
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