Source
Source: Lithograph poster, 1885. Artist: Adolph Friedländer. Courtesy of Historisches Museum Frankfurt a.M.
Abstract
This poster advertised another one of Carl Hagenbeck’s human zoo exhibits (Völkerschauen) staged at the Berlin Zoo. This show featured indigenous people from Ceylon (today’s Sri Lanka) along with animals such as elephants and zebus in order to present a replica of the “natural environment.”
Poster Advertising “Carl Hagenbeck’s 1885 Ceylon Expedition” (1885)
© Historisches Museum Frankfurt/Main
Further Reading
Eric Ames, Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments (Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, 2008).
Recommended Citation
Poster Advertising “Carl Hagenbeck’s 1885 Ceylon Expedition” (1885),
published in: German History in Documents and Images,
<https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/forging-an-empire-bismarckian-germany-1866-1890/ghdi:image-5136>
[December 21, 2024].