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Unknown Artist — Untitled: (elephants moving blocks of wood, recto); (procession or crowd, verso)

Unknown Artist

Untitled: (elephants moving blocks of wood, recto); (procession or crowd, verso)

1870

Mounted as a double-sided album page, these albumen prints offer fascinating documentary evidence of colonial labor practices and ceremonial life in what was likely British India or Southeast Asia.

Medium
Album page with two albumen prints mounted on both sides

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Unknown Artist, Untitled: (elephants moving blocks of wood, recto); (procession or crowd, verso), 1870

Mounted as a double-sided album page, these albumen prints offer fascinating documentary evidence of colonial labor practices and ceremonial life in what was likely British India or Southeast Asia.

Medium
Album page with two albumen prints mounted on both sides
Year
1870
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Albumen Print, Documentary, Vintage Photography, Unknown, Procession, Album Page, Narrative, Animals

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago