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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

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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

100. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arabian Horses and Riders
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100. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arabian Horses and Riders

ARABIAN HORSES AND RIDERS.—Ottoman's Arab camp, or the "Wild East Show' as it was finally called, was one of the World's Fair enterprises which, with various striking features, was yet financially unsuccessful. The Bedouins, with their families and equipments, were brought to Chicago by a private company, and the original intention of the promoters of the enterprise was to exhibit them in a park near the Exposition, but this design was, for some reason, impossible of execution, and the [...]

By Randy|2020-10-27T10:19:36-05:00May 6th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin, Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

99. Picturesque World’s Fair – Paseleo, A Samoan Chief
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99. Picturesque World’s Fair – Paseleo, A Samoan Chief

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99. Picturesque World’s Fair – Paseleo, A Samoan Chief

PASELEO, A SAMOAN CHIEF.—Splendid specimens of manhood and womanhood physically were the Samoans at the Exposition, and comment was as general upon their fine proportions as upon their intelligence and courtesy of demeanor. It may be that a remembrance of this time when Samoans imperiled their lives so recklessly in aid of the crews of American warships wrecked in the great hurricane at Apia had something to do with the good will shown, but, whatever the cause, the Samoans [...]

By Randy|2020-05-03T11:26:55-05:00April 29th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Samoan Girls, Samoan Village|0 Comments

98. Picturesque World’s Fair – Kaleife and his Dromedary
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98. Picturesque World’s Fair – Kaleife and his Dromedary

KALEIFE AND HIS DROMEDARY.—The Bedouin and the dromedary, "the ship of the desert," were very much in evidence at the Ottoman's Arab camp, or "Wild East Show ' The "ship" when under full sail around the encampment was gorgeously decorated, and his driver was not less brightly appareled. Why in a region as warm as the desert is supposed to be so much covering should be deemed a necessity is hard to say, but on all state occasions both [...]

By Randy|2020-10-27T10:20:32-05:00April 9th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin, Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, dromedary, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

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

96. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Forestry Building
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96. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Forestry Building

THE FORESTRY BUILDING.— None among the many department structures on the Fair grounds was built with more regard for what was symbolic of its uses than the Forestry Building. It stood very near the southeastern corner of the grounds and its eastern frontage was upon Lake Michigan. Its dimensions were five hundred by two hundred feet, and it had a central height of sixty feet. It was made entirely of wood, not even a nail being used but wooden [...]

By Randy|2020-03-15T05:11:16-05:00March 15th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Forestry Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Shakespeare|0 Comments

94. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Obelisk and Southern Colonnade
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94. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Obelisk and Southern Colonnade

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94. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Obelisk and Southern Colonnade

THE OBELISK AND SOUTHERN COLONNADE.—A fitting termination made to the view south on the South Canal was formed by the Southern Colonnade with the Obelisk in front. The Obelisk was history repeated in stone, or at least in its imitation, for it was a reproduction of the famous Cleopatra's needle, the original of which, thousands of years old, was presented by the Khedive of Egypt to the United States and is now a prominent object in Central Park, in [...]

By Randy|2020-02-23T11:09:31-06:00February 23rd, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, Machinery Hall, Obelisk, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, South Canal, South Colonnade|0 Comments

93. Picturesque World’s Fair – Southwest from the Government Building
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93. Picturesque World’s Fair – Southwest from the Government Building

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93. Picturesque World’s Fair – Southwest from the Government Building

SOUTHWEST, FROM THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING—The view southwest from the roof of the United States Government Building embraced a great number of attractive objects. The east lagoon and more than half the Wooded Island appeared conspicuously in the foreground, and there was no elevated place in the grounds from which the island and lagoon could be seen together that did not command a sight worth seeing, for any lover of the beautiful. To the left, immediately m front, is the [...]

By Randy|2020-01-26T06:35:44-06:00January 26th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Choral Hall, Electricity Building, Golden Door, lagoon, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Transportation Building, U.S. Government Building|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