176. Picturesque World’s Fair – An Eskimo Boy

AN ESKIMO BOY.--Not the least interesting objects in the village of the Eskimos, and certainly the most attractive, were the youngsters who rolled about like the seals in the waters of their own cold country. One of the young gentlemen of the group became an exceedingly popular personage with visitors to the odd village of odd people. He had reached the age of about four years, but his general air and bearing indicated that he had little more to [...]

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175. Picturesque World’s Fair – Canoes on Transportation Day

CANOES ON TRANSPORTATION DAY—Transportation Day was a great day all over the Fair grounds, not merely when the aristocratic blooded horses, with modern turn-outs, jostled lumbering camels and reindeer, and when an ox hitched to a rude cart might have nearly run over a palanquin, but upon the ponds and bayous and the canals, where the odd craft of different races swept along together in fantastic contrast. The scene in the illustration is evidently one afforded when there was [...]

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