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Vintage Stereoviews
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Drying Fish on the Yukon River,
Alaska
Keystone View Company, T198, 11518
Verso
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Tibetan Devil Dancers:
Who Guarantee to Drive Away the Evil One.
Darjeeling, India
Keystone View Company, 887, W27466
Verso
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Savages in their Dugout Canoe.
New Guinea
Keystone View Company, P145, 15989
Verso
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Carvings in Maori Pah, or Village.
New Zealand
Keystone View Company, 1033, 24367
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A Lapland Family and their Summer Home
on a Hillside in Norway
Keystone View Company, 258, V25633
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The Kayak of the Eskimo
Keystone View Company, 172, 33148
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Hungarian Shepherd and His Flock
on the Hortobagy Plain,
Hungary
Keystone View Company, 636, 5324
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An Arab Village of Reed Mats, and Round
Fort
on Lower Euphrates,
Iraq, (Mesopotamia)
Keystone View Company, 745, V27703
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An Eskimo Family at Fort Magnesia,
Cape Sabine, Ellsmere Land
Keystone View Company, T219, V13334T
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Native Australians Hunting
Australia
Keystone View Company , P121, 15994
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Ox Teams and Drivers in Rural Chile.
The "Ribbon Republic" along West Coast of So. America.
Keystone View Company, 18, 2184 T
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An Oasis Town in the Sahara Desert
Sultanate of Morocco (French Protectorate)
Keystone View Company, 511, 8659
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Devout Mohammedans Prostrate at Prayer Time -
Jama Masjid, India's Greatest Mosque,
Delhi, India
Keystone View Company , 257, V27412T
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Interesting Peasant Types in the Street of a Rural Village in Russia
Keystone View Company , TA195, 18129T
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Milking the Goats on a Mountain Saetor,
Hardanger Fjord, Norway
Keystone View Company, 32, 13422 T
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"We'll take a cup o' kindness yet for auld land
syne."
A Highland Home
Scotland
Keystone View Company, T76, 12702T
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People of the Frigid North - Lapp Home and Family,
near Tromsoe, Norway
Keystone View Company, T325, V15790 T
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A Burning Ghat on Banks of Sacred Ganges,
Benares, India
Keystone View Company, T261, V27431 T
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The Pompian Room in the Winter Palace,
Leningrad, Russia
Keystone View Company, 56, 18194 T
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Temple of Jupiter or Zeus, Looking Toward Acropolis.
Athens, Greece
Keystone View Company, 690, 27952 (V19120)
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Stereoviews of
Ethnic Subjects
These twenty cards are actual photographs
that were published by the
Keystone View Company between 1900 and 1935.
Only a smattering of the thousands of "views" of the world portrayed
aboriginal peoples or scenes. Most are of situations or places
that demonstrated how western (European or American) other peoples were
not, and, within that
paradigm, how quaint they were. "Oh, isn't that sweet!"
Ethnic photographs were sometimes used in schools for educational/geography classes. Verso copy
demonstrates such educational use. Those that depict traditional or
aboriginal people or places tend to reflect stereotypes of the day
("Savages!" "They were queer looking people!" "They did not
know any better way of living!"). Interpretative copy (verso) for the
Greek card is flattering, or at least not demeaning, as is, ironically, that
of the Iraqi/Mesopotamian image.
Both countries seemed to be understood as
origin-places of modern civilization,
and were honored for that.
All of the
presented stereoviews were
published by the Keystone View Company that operated
rom 1892
to 1970, having also incorporated the inventory of several other stereoview publishers
in its heyday.
All are vintage photographic prints mounted to a 3 3/8 x
7 inch heavy stock card,
medium grey in color, and slightly curved (a
late modification in stereoviews
intended to enhance the
stereoscopic/three-dimensional effect.).
All cards are vintage and
authentic.
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