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[A Navajo woman with infant on her back] – Antique Print

[A Navajo woman with infant on her back], photographed between 1864-1868, c1914. — historic photograph
[A Navajo woman with infant on her back], photographed between 1864-1868, c1914.. 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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[A Navajo woman with infant on her back] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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What sets this print apart is the infant carried on the woman's back, a method Navajo families had long used for young children. The record dates it to about 1914 and says it was probably copied from a photograph by John Gaw Meem, with copyright registered by C.P. Jennings. Portraits like this were widely sold in that period, so the scene was likely shaped for an outside audience as much as recorded for family use.

Created / publishedphotographed between 1864-1868, c1914.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesJ189121 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.P. Jennings. Probably copied from photograph by John Gaw Meem. No. 355.
SubjectsIndians of North America--Women--1910-1920. Navajo Indians--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,097 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169312

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