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A tropic shower, Island of Luzon, P.I. – Vintage Print

A tropic shower, Island of Luzon, P.I., c1907. — historic photograph
A tropic shower, Island of Luzon, P.I., c1907.. 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 tropic shower on the island of Luzon, in what was then the Philippine Islands, is the subject of this stereograph, a paired image meant to be viewed through a hand-held stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. Keystone View Company, a large American publisher of these cards in the early twentieth century, issued it around 1907 under catalog number 10087. The card's caption tracings classify it as a geographic view of rain, so the scene is likely offered as a picture of tropical weather rather than of a specific town or event. Such cards were sold to households and schools as windows onto distant parts of the American empire, which had acquired the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 10087. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Rain; Ph.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 779 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157927

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