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Title: Photographs of the Dahomeyan Village at the California Midwinter Fair, 1894
Creator: Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: The Dahomeyan Village showcased Africans from French Congo, French Guinea, and Benin. These individuals were recruited by Xavier Pené, a French ivory trader and labor contractor who was permitted to exhibit an African village after putting on the same exhibit for the Chicago World Fair the previous year
Eleven photographs of the Dahomeyan Village, one of the ethnological exhibits at the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. Taken by Isaiah West Taber, the official photographer of the fair, each photograph has a caption and identifying number printed under the image. All are mounted on contemporary cards, and have "©1894, by Taber Photo." printed at lower right corner
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Still image
Mostly horizontal orientation
[San Francisco] :, Taber Photo.
Type: image
Format: 11 photoprints : portraits, black and white ; sheets 20 x 25 cm and 13 x 20 cm, mounted on cards
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb2056330k
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Ethnology
Nineteenth century
Portraits
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibitions
Photographs
Fon (African people)
Human zoos
California Midwinter International Exposition (1894 : San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco (California)
Place: San Francisco (California)

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