1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Samoan Girl Costume Dress Historic OLD5 This ad encourages soda fountain

This ad encourages soda fountain owners to offer and feature coffee

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

This is an original 1932 color print of Sweden's Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna

This piece was illustrated by Livett

Frank H Gordon

1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Samoan Girl Costume Dress Historic OLD5 This ad encourages soda fountain"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