Indians Playing Cards in the Pageant Camp-A Modern Development-Quebec Tercentenary, July, 1908
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Keystone View Company
American, 1892–1963
Indians Playing Cards in the Pageant Camp-A Modern Development-Quebec Tercentenary, July, 1908
July 1908
Gelatin silver print
Each Image: 7.8 x 7.6 cm (3 1/16 x 3 in.)
Mount: 8.7 x 17.8 cm (3 7/16 x 7 in.)
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2011
2010.1013.0005
Inscriptions recto (printed in black): Keystone View Company / Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers /
Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore. / New York, N.Y., Toronto, Can., London, Eng. /
16062-Indians Playing Cards in the Pageant Camp-A Modern / Development-Quebec Tercentienary, July, 1908
verso (printed in black): It is remarkable that, spite of cen-/turies which in passing have done their / best to civilize the Indian tribes of Can-/ada, these people retain so fully the / characteristics and habits of their an-/cestors. Ordinary / houses, they fall with the utmost readi-/ness into the spirit as into the garb of / the aboriginal Indians. Their acting of / savage progenitors is intensely real, and / reveals depths of originality seldon seen / among our while Thespians. It is the / influence of their traditions, and shows that the later influence of our civiliza- /tion is superficial. Their home is the wigwam, their dress the deerskin. / Copyright 1908, by Keystone View Company.
Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore. / New York, N.Y., Toronto, Can., London, Eng. /
16062-Indians Playing Cards in the Pageant Camp-A Modern / Development-Quebec Tercentienary, July, 1908
verso (printed in black): It is remarkable that, spite of cen-/turies which in passing have done their / best to civilize the Indian tribes of Can-/ada, these people retain so fully the / characteristics and habits of their an-/cestors. Ordinary / houses, they fall with the utmost readi-/ness into the spirit as into the garb of / the aboriginal Indians. Their acting of / savage progenitors is intensely real, and / reveals depths of originality seldon seen / among our while Thespians. It is the / influence of their traditions, and shows that the later influence of our civiliza- /tion is superficial. Their home is the wigwam, their dress the deerskin. / Copyright 1908, by Keystone View Company.
