In Faga Togo, Tutuila, Samoa, Storekeeper's cottage – Historic Reproduction
(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 In Faga Togo, Tutuila, Samoa, Storekeeper's cottage, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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In Faga Togo, Tutuila, Samoa, Storekeeper's cottage
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A storekeeper's cottage in Faga Togo, a village on Tutuila, the largest island in American Samoa, is the subject of this glass negative. The United States took control of Tutuila in 1900, when a naval station was set up at nearby Pago Pago, and small village shops like this one served Samoan families as well as the American officials and sailors who arrived afterward. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs, gathered views from many distant places. The date and photographer are not recorded, so the picture is best read as a general glimpse of everyday commercial life in the territory in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,729 × 4,109 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24501 |
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