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Stereoviews

Ethnic

 
 


Drying Fish on the Yukon River,
Alaska

Keystone View Company,  T198,  11518

Verso


Tibetan Devil Dancers:
Who Guarantee to Drive Away the Evil One.
Darjeeling, India

Keystone View Company,  887,  W27466

Verso


Savages in their Dugout Canoe.
New Guinea

Keystone View Company, P145,  15989

Verso


Carvings in Maori Pah, or Village.
New Zealand

Keystone View Company,  1033,  24367

Verso


A Lapland Family and their Summer Home
on a Hillside in Norway

Keystone View Company,  258,  V25633


Verso


The Kayak of the Eskimo
Keystone View Company,  172,  33148

Verso


Hungarian Shepherd and His Flock on the Hortobagy Plain,
Hungary

Keystone View Company,  636,  5324


Verso


An Arab Village of Reed Mats, and Round Fort on Lower Euphrates,
Iraq, (Mesopotamia)
Keystone View Company,  745,  V27703

Verso


An Eskimo Family at Fort Magnesia,
Cape Sabine, Ellsmere Land

Keystone View Company, T219,  V13334 T


Verso


Native Australians Hunting
Australia

Keystone View Company , P121,  15994


Verso


Ox Teams and Drivers in Rural Chile.
The "Ribbon Republic" along West Coast of So. America.
Keystone View Company,  18, 2184 T 

Verso


An Oasis Town in the Sahara Desert
Sultanate of Morocco (French Protectorate)
Keystone View Company, 511,  8659

Verso


Devout Mohammedans Prostrate at Prayer Time -
Jama Masjid, India's Greatest Mosque,
Delhi, India
Keystone View Company , 257,  V27412 T

Verso



Interesting Peasant Types in the Street of a Rural Village in Russia

Keystone View Company , TA195,  18129 T

Verso


Milking the Goats on a Mountain Saetor,
Hardanger Fjord, Norway
Keystone View Company, 32, 13422 T
 

Verso


"We'll take a cup o' kindness yet for auld lang syne."
A Highland Home
Scotland

Keystone View Company,  T76, 12702 T 
 

Verso


A Burning Ghat on Banks of Sacred Ganges,
Benares, India
Keystone View Company,  T261,  V27431 T

Verso


The Pompian Room in the Winter Palace,
Leningrad, Russia
Keystone View Company,  56, 18194 T

Verso


Temple of Jupiter or Zeus, Looking Toward Acropolis.
Athens, Greece

Keystone View Company,  690,  27952 (V19120)


Verso


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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