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107. Picturesque World’s Fair – Five Samoan Warriors in Character Song
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107. Picturesque World’s Fair – Five Samoan Warriors in Character Song

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107. Picturesque World’s Fair – Five Samoan Warriors in Character Song

FIVE SAMOAN WARRIORS IN A CHARACTER SONG.—There was a theatre in the village where the Samoans were, and they gave daily performances of no mean quality. Among these were the Tapate, a dance peculiar to the Wallis islanders in which both men and women appeared, the men carrying paddles which they struck together as the dance proceeded to the time beaten on a stick by one of the number sitting on the ground and controlling the movements of the [...]

By Randy|2020-10-24T11:00:46-05:00September 20th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Samoan Village|0 Comments

106. Picturesque World’s Fair – Dahomey Men
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106. Picturesque World’s Fair – Dahomey Men

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106. Picturesque World’s Fair – Dahomey Men

DAHOMEY MEN.—The Dahomey Village consisted of three houses and a group of huts, much of the material being brought from Dahomey for the purpose, and was occupied by sixty men and forty women. Other Pages from PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR.

By Randy|2021-04-02T11:22:33-05:00September 5th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Dahomey Village, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

105. Picturesque World’s Fair – Hindu Jugglers
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105. Picturesque World’s Fair – Hindu Jugglers

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105. Picturesque World’s Fair – Hindu Jugglers

HINDU JUGGLERS.—Some time before the close of the Fair there was erected a small building on the Midway Plaisance in which Hindu jugglers appeared, to display their skill for the first time before American audiences. Other Pages from PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR.

By Randy|2020-08-17T05:01:59-05:00August 20th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Hindoo Jugglers, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

104. Picturesque World’s Fair – A South Sea Island House
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104. Picturesque World’s Fair – A South Sea Island House

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104. Picturesque World’s Fair – A South Sea Island House

A SOUTH SEA ISLAND HOUSE.—The South Sea Island Village included among its inhabitants natives of various islands in the Polynesian Archipelago, though so superior to all the rest were the Samoans that they soon attracted most attention, and the place was as often alluded to as the Samoan Village as otherwise. The houses were of Samoan construction, and the largest of them was a building of repute, having once stood for ten years in the village of King Mataafa, [...]

By Randy|2020-10-18T13:31:28-05:00August 16th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Samoan Village, South Sea Islands Village|0 Comments

103. Picturesque World’s Fair – Soloman Joseph and Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Aye
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103. Picturesque World’s Fair – Soloman Joseph and Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Aye

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103. Picturesque World’s Fair – Soloman Joseph and Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Aye

SOLOMON JOSEPH AND TA-RA-RA BOOM-DE-AYE.—As a group of uncompromisingly rapacious and mannerless patronage-seekers the donkey boys of a Street in Cairo were probably never surpassed, and of these Solomon Joseph was admittedly the chief brigand. He was noisy, persistent and altogether intolerable in soliciting people to ride upon his dwarfish beasts, and was always grinning and good-natured. Of the two, the donkey shown in the picture had probably the greater number of lovable qualities, though even " Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-aye," [...]

By Randy|2020-08-02T03:03:17-05:00August 2nd, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Street in Cairo|0 Comments

The Voyage of “The Viking” Ship to the 1893 World’s Fair
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The Voyage of “The Viking” Ship to the 1893 World’s Fair

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The Voyage of “The Viking” Ship to the 1893 World’s Fair

“The presence of the Viking ship in one of our ports and her subsequent visit to Newport and New York and the trip up the Hudson, through the Erie Canal down the Great Lakes to Chicago and the ‘White City’ marks a historical event of no small importance.” —The Chautauquan, August 1893. The Viking from Norway at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. [Image from Scientific American, Aug. 19, 1893.] Few attractions at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition [...]

By Scott|2023-12-08T08:48:25-06:00July 12th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Viking Ship|1 Comment

The Columbian Exposition as a New World Fable
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The Columbian Exposition as a New World Fable

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The Columbian Exposition as a New World Fable

“A New World Fable” by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen describes the 1893 World’s Fair as a “wealth of achievement” that promises to be “an elevating influence which will endure beyond the present generation.”

By Scott|2023-12-08T08:49:17-06:00July 6th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen|1 Comment

1776, 1861, and 1893
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1776, 1861, and 1893

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1776, 1861, and 1893

At a banquet held in Chicago on January 10, 1891, Chief of Construction Daniel Burnham made this patriotic appeal to the architects of the World’s Columbian Exposition: “Gentlemen, 1893 will be the third great date in our country’s history. On the two others, 1776 and 1861, all true Americans served, and so now I ask you to serve again!" [from Martin, Justin Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Hachette Books, 2011.] On August 14, 1891, Prof. David [...]

By Scott|2020-07-04T06:24:47-05:00July 4th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|0 Comments

102. Picturesque World’s Fair – Medicine and Plenty Horse, Sioux Indian Chiefs
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102. Picturesque World’s Fair – Medicine and Plenty Horse, Sioux Indian Chiefs

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102. Picturesque World’s Fair – Medicine and Plenty Horse, Sioux Indian Chiefs

MEDICINE" AND " PLENTY HORSE," SIOUX INDIAN CHIEFS.- The typical Indian Village on the Plaisance was not so much of a novelty as a study for American visitors to the Fair. They had seen Indians enough, but they had never seen members of widely separate tribes grouped together and so affording opportunity for comparison. To foreigners all were interesting, as savage races from abroad were to us, but to the American the contrast was the curious thing. It was [...]

By Randy|2020-06-28T11:21:57-05:00June 28th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: American Indian Village, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Potawatomi Indians, Winnebago Indians|0 Comments

101. Picturesque World’s Fair – Nizaha, A Woman of Nazareth
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101. Picturesque World’s Fair – Nizaha, A Woman of Nazareth

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101. Picturesque World’s Fair – Nizaha, A Woman of Nazareth

NIZAHA, A WOMAN OF NAZARETH.— Hardly what one would expect in appearance was Nizaha, a woman with the Bedouins, who came from the locality reverentially considered by all the Christian world as the birthplace of Christ. It will be observed that in sitting for her photograph Nizaha did not forget her hands and handkerchief and that, with the left hand especially, as it is spread out against her side, a somewhat startling effect is produced. The rings are shown [...]

By Randy|2020-06-28T10:56:09-05:00June 28th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS, Uncategorized|Tags: Bedouin, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments