Looking Abroad: Photography, Tourism, and Empire, 1870-1920
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![Black and white photograph of the Sphinx in Egypt.](/sites/library.wwu.edu/files/styles/image_block_medium/public/2022-10/junghandel003.jpg?itok=9XGZ_-Wq)
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Why were early travel photographs made? What larger stories do they tell, and what are the challenges to interpreting them? This exhibition of materials from Archives & Special Collections explores the larger social and political context of photographs created as tourist souvenirs or to promote travel at the height of Western colonialism.