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Aug 15, 2018
Fruitsellers
Fruitsellers
c. 1880
Scowen & Co.
(British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
Albumen print from glass plate negative
Image: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Paper: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Mounted: 23.1 x 30.3 cm (9 1/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer 2018.40
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Occupational scenes like Fruitsellers were popular subjects in 19th-century colonial photography. Like this image of fruit sellers in colonial Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), such images provided armchair travelers with insight into local life and customs, as seen through European eyes.
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