Looking Abroad: Photography, Tourism, and Empire, 1870-1920

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Black and white photograph of the Sphinx in Egypt.

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.