Sujet

Carl Hagenbeck's Ceylonese Exhibition, 1886. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Carl Hagenbeck's Ceylonese Exhibition, 1886. Front cover illustration of the programme for Hagenbeck's exhibition, held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington. Ceylon was a British colony between 1796 and 1948. Hagenbeck's show featured Ceylonese people as exhibits during the era of the human zoo.

Date

1886

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM25A07_082

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

45,5Mo (4,2Mo) / 29,3cm x 38,9cm / 3465 x 4589 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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