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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

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

1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the World’s Fair Card Deck
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1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the World’s Fair Card Deck

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1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the World’s Fair Card Deck

1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the World’s Fair Card Deck by Stuart Van Leer Bradley. Railway Station Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781951299057. Softcover, 40 pages. $15.00. This companion book to the recently produced set of Midway Playing Cards contains a summary of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the Midway Plaisance, technical notes about the set of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (BB&S) type foundry printers ornaments, scans of a set of letterpress history cards, and an [...]

By Scott|2020-07-18T10:22:26-05:00July 18th, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS, RESEARCH|Tags: Midway Plaisance|0 Comments

Chicago00 Launches 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition VR Web Portal
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Chicago00 Launches 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition VR Web Portal

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Chicago00 Launches 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition VR Web Portal

Grab your Columbian Exposition return pass and head back to the 1893 World’s Fair virtually with the Chicago 00 Project, which has launched their 1893 World's Columbian Exposition VR web portal at https://1893.chicago00.org/. A partnership between the Chicago History Museum and filmmaker Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, the Chicago 00 Project has been producing a series of interactive multimedia experiences using historical images of important sites and events in Chicago. Their augmented reality app allows participant to overlay historic photos with [...]

By Scott|2020-06-29T10:42:24-05:00June 29th, 2020|Categories: NEWS|Tags: Chicago History Museum, Ferris Wheel, gondolas, Grand Basin, Horticultural Building, Jackson Park, Java Village, Lapland Village, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Midway Plaisance, Sitting Bull's Cabin, Wooded Island|0 Comments

97. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fettome, A Bedouin Woman
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97. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fettome, A Bedouin Woman

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97. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fettome, A Bedouin Woman

FETTOME, A BEDOUIN WOMAN.—Much as has been written about the Arabs and their wild life upon the North African plains, descriptions have been, as a rule, confined mostly to the men and how the woman of the desert lives, moves and has her being has been left largely to the imagination. So it came that the Bedouin women, at the Columbian Exposition, were looked upon with a good deal of curiosity and were found to be by no means [...]

By Randy|2020-10-27T10:21:26-05:00March 28th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin, Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

Raising the Ante for Midway Playing Cards
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Raising the Ante for Midway Playing Cards

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Raising the Ante for Midway Playing Cards

A Kickstarter campaign is raising funds for a new edition of Midway playing cards.

By Scott|2020-02-29T14:02:14-06:00March 2nd, 2020|Categories: COLLECTING, PRODUCTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance|1 Comment

Vienna Beef History Museum Closes
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Vienna Beef History Museum Closes

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Vienna Beef History Museum Closes

UPDATE (1/26/2020): The Vienna Beef History Museum will be closing on February 1, 2020, with no plans for reopening, according to reporting by Block Club Chicago. _______________________________________________________________________________________ We have not yet reached the dog days of summer, but Chicago is already celebrating its most famous dog, with the opening of the Vienna Beef History Museum. The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition launched the careers of many now-famous food items, including shredded wheat, Aunt Jemima pancake mix, chili, brownies, and one [...]

By Scott|2023-04-09T08:56:39-05:00January 26th, 2020|Categories: EXHIBITS (past), NEWS|Tags: Austrian Village (Old Vienna), food, Midway Plaisance, Vienna Beef|0 Comments

92. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Javanese at Home
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92. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Javanese at Home

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92. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Javanese at Home

THE JAVANESE AT HOME.— In their home life the Javanese are said to be a simple and happy people, and this will be readily believed of them by those who were in the Javanese Village at the Fair frequently enough to note the home demeanor of its occupants. They were most interesting, these gentle Javanese, and, in certain ways and habits and views of life, quite unlike any other people in the world, so fax as the Fair afforded [...]

By Randy|2020-01-20T06:17:44-06:00January 20th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Java Village, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments