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Stereoviews

Ethnic

Drying Fish on the Yukon River,
Alaska
Keystone View Company,  T198,  11518

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Tibetan Devil Dancers:
Who Guarantee to Drive Away the Evil One.
Darjeeling, India
Keystone View Company,  887,  W27466

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Savages in their Dugout Canoe.
New Guinea
Keystone View Company, P145,  15989

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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,  V13334 T

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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,  V27412 T

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Interesting Peasant Types in the Street of a Rural Village in Russia
Keystone View Company , TA195,  18129 T

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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 lang syne."
A Highland Home
Scotland
Keystone View Company,  T76, 12702 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 nineteen 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 "other" peoples were so much different from western (European or American) people, and, within that paradigm, how quaint they were.  "Oh, isn't that sweet!"  Sometimes they were 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 card. Both countries seem to be still understood as origin-places of modern civilization, and were honored for that.

All of the presented stereoviews are published by the Keystone View Company that operated from 1892 to 1970,
having also incorporated the inventory of several other stereoview publishers in its heyday.
 All are original 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 authentic.
 

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