Sami side show Advertising poster.

Published by Hamburg Carl Hagenbeck c1875, 1875

Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, CanadaAquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC

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Condition: Used - Near fine

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Original lithographic advertising poster. (77.5 X 56.5 cm.) Old fold lines are visible. A small amount of restoration has been done, mainly on blank edges. Colours are vibrant with the image being quite clean and clear. The image depicts a Sami (Lapland) family with the mother, father and daughter being being shown in head and shoulders view in the top half of the image. The bottom half shows the day to day activities of a family and reindeer herding. The bottom right has a small inset image of what appears to be a midget dressed up in Sami clothes. The poster was produced for Carl Hagenbeck in the 1870's by Adolph Friedlander (17 April 1851 – 7 July 1904), who was a famed German lithographer of posters and a publisher hailing from Hamburg. He produced thousands of posters during his career. Hagenbeck was born on June 10, 1844, to Claus Gottfried Carl Hagenbeck (1810–1887), a fishmonger who ran a side business buying and selling exotic animals. When Hagenbeck was 14, his father gave him some seals and a polar bear. His collection of animals grew until he needed large buildings to keep them. Hagenbeck left his home in Hamburg to accompany hunters and explorers on trips to jungle regions and snow-clad mountains. He captured animals in nearly every continent in the world. In 1874, he decided to exhibit Samoan and Sami people (then known as "Laplanders") as "purely natural" populations, with their tents, weapons, sleds, near a group of reindeer. This poster seems to be the result of that effort. He also tried exhibiting 8 Labrador Inuit in 1880, all of which perished from Small pox. The image seems quite uncommon.

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Title
Sami side show Advertising poster.
Author
Friedlander, Adolph and Carl Hagenbeck
Publisher
Hamburg Carl Hagenbeck c1875
Publication year
1875
Condition
Near fine
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