Caption
Congo, Vue du Village, Men in a rowing boat in a recreated Congolese village at the Antwerp World Exhibition in 1894, Exposition Universelle d'Anvers 1894, page, photomechanical print, photographer: Charles Bernhoeft, Antwerp, cliché maker: Charles Bernhoeft, Luxembourg (Belgian province), 1894, Charles Bernhoeft, photographer, cliché maker, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 154 mm x width 216 mm, adult man, prospect of village, silhouette of village, world fair, world exhibition, rowing-boat, canoe, etc. (four persons or more, traffic and transport), World Exhibition 1894 (Antwerp), Period, 1894-05-05 - 1894-11-05, A waterside scene shows a long narrow boat filled with people wearing minimal clothing and holding paddles, positioned near the grassy bank; behind them are two large thatched structures with thick straw roofs, one rounded and dome-like and the other with a steep sloping roof, flanked by tropical plants and small trees; a man in lighter clothing and a hat stands near the bank beside the sloped thatched building while several garments hang from the exterior wall; in the background there is a large multi-story building with many windows and a crowd of onlookers gathered near the edge of the scene; the foreground features rippling water with rocks and aquatic plants along the near shore.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B05_004
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