1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Samoan Girl Costume Dress Historic OLD5 This is an original 1893

This is an original 1893 black and white wood engraving of Dunafölvár

"The 'don't knows' have it

This is an original 1929 photogravure of a Buddha statue in Inwa (Ava)

"Merry Andrew

This is an original 1793 hand-colored copper engraving of the Potentilla argentea

1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Samoan Girl Costume Dress Historic OLD5 This is an original 1893"Mele (Samoan)." This is an original 1894 halftone print portrait of Mele, a young Samoan girl, wearing a dress made of painted native paper fringed with strings of fiber and grass blades. Period Paper has obtained a rare set of large format photographic portrait images of the different ethnic people who represented various countries of the world at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition. Each image comes with a