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[Native workers in Javanese Village, Paris Exposition, 1889] – Historic Print

[Native workers in Javanese Village, Paris Exposition, 1889], [1889] — historic photograph
[Native workers in Javanese Village, Paris Exposition, 1889], [1889]. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs 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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Step back in time with [Native workers in Javanese Village, Paris Exposition, 1889], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few things at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris drew as much attention as the colonial villages, and this albumen print records a group of workers from one of them, a Javanese village built on the fairgrounds. The fair, held to mark the centennial of the French Revolution, was staged alongside the newly completed Eiffel Tower and showed off France's overseas empire through reconstructed settlements where people from the colonies lived, worked, and performed for crowds. Photographs like this one were sold as souvenirs and now serve as evidence of how colonial subjects were displayed to European audiences. The title's use of the word "Native" reflects the racial framing of that display.

Created / published[1889]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1880-1890.Group portraits 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890.
SubjectsExposition universelle de 1889--(Paris, France) Exhibitions--France--Paris--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,265 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185953

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