1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Samoan Girl Costume Dress Historic YJR1 Russia as seen from in

Russia as seen from in front of the Nicholai Station

This piece was illustrated by Schreyer

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1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Samoan Girl Costume Dress Historic YJR1 Russia as seen from in"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