Inuit family studio portrait, New London, CT, circa 1881

albumen print

Albumen print; mounted on white board with gold edges; full length portrait of Inuit family: at left is Annie Kimilu, at right is Chimoakjo (John Buck), at center is their daughter Kudlarjuk (Buckshot); printed on reverse of photograph "GILES BISHOP/ Photographer/ 22 STATE STREET/ NEW LONDON, CONN/ Negatives Preserved"; handwritten in blue ink "Three Eskimos brought/ to New London by/ Capt [Buddington crossed out] Spicer/ whaling captain/ Margaret W. Stacy". Ref: Barbard L. Colby, "For Oil and Buggy Whips" MSM 1990, page 144 which dates image circa 1881.