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Paper Clues
Clues to the Present From the Paper PastAt PaperMatch we seem to be constantly coming across old paper and prints that are eerily timely, despite their age. Sometimes their message is amusing, sometimes serious. We're not trying to push any particular political agenda here. Only to note that a lot is to be found in the Paper Past.
This selection, part of a much larger (approx. 9.5"x13")sheet from Harper's Weekly of 1876 shows the pain of War in Bosnia.
The caption reads: Herzegovina Refugees at Ragusa. Text: "The above picture represents a scene witnessed by the artist at the Austria sea-port town of Ragusa, where large numbers of the distressed people of the neighboring Turkish province expelled from their native village by the merciless visitation of war, are collected in a painful state of destitution. The province of Bosnia, of which Herzegovina is a dependency, has during four centuries been subject to the despotic and grinding rule of a Turkish pasha. It has a fertile soil, and other natural resources of considerable value. The land is chiefly owned by Messulman natives, who form about one-fourth part of the population, and who are not foreigners, but of the same race as the Christian majority; those belong to the Greek church. The inhabitants of the Herzegovina, all counted, are scarcely a quarter of a million." @ US$55.00 (We've got clues to lots of stuff.) |
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