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Digger Indian Squaw – Antique Print

Digger Indian Squaw, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Digger Indian Squaw, [published 1866]. 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 caption card reading "Digger Indian Squaw" labels this stereograph with a term that was a demeaning name for Native people across California and the Great Basin, and it should be read today as evidence of that prejudice rather than as a reliable identification of the sitter. The Library holds one half of a stereographic pair from the series *Gems of California Scenery*, numbered 597 and published in 1866. Stereographs like this were sold in large numbers for home parlor viewing, so such images reached audiences far from the places they showed. The record does not name the sitter or the photographer, and its caption information is unverified.

Created / published[published 1866]
Medium1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
NotesThe Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 597. LOT subdivision subject: Indians. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,422 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116201

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