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Economies and Empire: Colonialism and the Clash of National Visions #9048
Metadata
Date: unknown
Location: Paris, France
Photographer: unknown
Source: Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Caption
In the late 19th century and in some places up to the 1950s, several European countries and the United States exhibited colonial subjects, “in their natural habitat” either in fair grounds or in zoos. Here is a “Senegalese Village” in Paris.
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