Unknown Artist

Untitled (elephants moving blocks of wood) (recto)

1870

Working elephants demonstrate the intersection of labor, nature, and colonial industry in this documentary albumen print that captures a vanishing world of traditional timber practices.

Medium: albumen print mounted on an album page

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Unknown Artist, Untitled (elephants moving blocks of wood) (recto), 1870

Working elephants demonstrate the intersection of labor, nature, and colonial industry in this documentary albumen print that captures a vanishing world of traditional timber practices.

Medium: albumen print mounted on an album page
Year: 1870
Seen at: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago