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A happy Yakima family

1890·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain
A happy Yakima family, 1890 (Library of Congress)
A happy Yakima family, 1890 (Library of Congress)
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1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 19 cm (postcard format) | Photograph shows Yakama Indian husband and wife with a child in a beaded cradleboard.

About this photograph

A gelatin silver print from 1890 showing a Yakama husband, wife, and child. The child is held in a beaded cradleboard. The photograph is in postcard format, measuring 14 by 19 centimeters.

No information is available about who these people were, where the photograph was taken, or who made it. The archive's title describes them as a "happy" family, though such characterizations tell us more about how the photograph was originally presented than about the subjects themselves.

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Gelatin Silver Prints

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