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Leopold II, 1865-1875. Creator: Nadar.

Leopold II, 1865-1875. Creator: Nadar.

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Leopold II, 1865-1875. Portrait of King Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909), founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Leopold ran the Congo, (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo), which he never personally visited, by using the mercenary Force Publique for his personal gain. He extracted a fortune from the territory, initially by the collection of ivory and, after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s, by forced labour from the Indigenous population to harvest and process rubber.

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Creator
  1. Nadar, attributed to: French: Journalist, photographer, artist, caricaturist, author, printmaker, writer, balloonistSearch Wikipedia for Nadar
Subject
  1. Leopold II, King of the Belgians: Belgian: King of BelgiumSearch Wikipedia for Leopold II, King of the Belgians
Medium
  1. Albumen silver print
  2. Photograph
Picture Type
  1. Portrait
  2. Print
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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4391x6098
File Size : 78,447kb

Aliases

  1. 84.XM.436.490
  1. 1045A1
  1. 1200008968
  1. 3-089-641
  1. 3089641
  1. 84.XM.436.490

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