Madonna of the North – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Madonna of the North comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Madonna of the North
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A Nome photographer, H.G. Kaiser, took this c1912 portrait of Alaska Native mothers and infants and registered it for copyright, which is why the record carries a Copyright Office number. The title "Madonna of the North" invokes the Renaissance painting tradition of the Virgin and Child, casting the women as a sacred maternal image in a remote northern setting. The subject labels, which use the period's terms for Indigenous Alaskans, reflect how such photographs were typically catalogued and marketed in the 1910s, and they are worth reading with that context in mind.
| Created / published | c1912. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1910-1920.Group portraits 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J174027 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.G. Kaiser, Nome, Alaska. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Alaska--Women--1910-1920. Eskimos--Women--Alaska--1910-1920. Mothers & children--1910-1920. Infants--Alaska--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,299 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178063 |
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