Philippine Islands: The caraboa as a mount – Antique 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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Philippine Islands: The caraboa as a mount 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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Philippine Islands: The caraboa as a mount
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A stereograph from about 1902 shows a carabao, the water buffalo of the Philippines, carrying a rider, a pairing that was a familiar sight to American soldiers and civilians arriving in the islands after the Spanish-American War. The card was issued by C.H. Graves through The Universal Art Co. and numbered 84 in its series, the kind of commercial stereo view that brought distant places into American parlors through a viewer. The carabao was the main draft and transport animal of rural Filipino farms and was prized for its strength in wet fields, so a photograph of one used as a mount offers a glimpse of everyday island life as Americans saw it.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves (The Universal Art Co.). No. 84. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animals--Caraboa; Photog. I. (2); P.I.--Misc.--1902; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,427 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140660 |
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