1893 Chicago World's Fair Portrait Javanese Man Carpenter Java Village Historic HMX1 Tobias (Ceylon)

Tobias (Ceylon)

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the publicity man (Pete Smith) to market the film

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This particular image served as a study for a figure in the "Alameda of Osuna

1893 Chicago World's Fair Portrait Javanese Man Carpenter Java Village Historic HMX1 Tobias (Ceylon)Paronga (Javanese Carpenter)." This is an original 1894 halftone print portrait of Paronga, a Javanese carpenter who helped put up the huts in the Java Village in the Midway Plaisance. 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 short