photographic print(black and white);
album;
carte-de-visite
- Museum number
- Oc,A3.127
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; carte de visite; portrait of two men, members of the French Tirailleur (Infantry), in front of a neutral backdrop; one stands and one sits; they wear fezes, embroidered military jackets over vests, trousers and boots.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1870
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.10 centimetres (image)
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Height: 10.50 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 5.90 centimetres (image)
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Width: 6.50 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From an album of 176 photographs in carte-de-visite format, by various photographers, including Lindt, Damman, Pulman and others, depicting depicting peoples of the Pacific, as well as Africa, Asia and South America..
Production/Ethnic: "Turco" in the inscription is the name given to the Turkish Tirailleurs (infantry recruited in various French colonial territories during the 19th and 20th centuries).
Related images: one of the men appears in Oc,A3.126, 127 and 129.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A3.127
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: MM 023995 (Museum of Mankind Number)