Bremen: Battak Haus, Sumatra / Human Zoo (Vintage PC 1898)

original vintage postcard - no reprint!

germany

publisher: phot. und verlag louis koch, bremen

postcard shows the BATTAK HAUS (SUMATRA) at the ÜBERSEE MUSEUM in BREMEN - GERMANY, also called STÄDTISCHES MUSEUM FÜR NATUR-, VÖLKER-, UND NATURKUNDE which opened in 1896, a place where people of foreign cultures have been like in a HUMAN ZOO...a sad part of our colonial history...

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

postally used in 1898

condition: excellent...please also refer to scans which show complete front and backside of postcard

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