1893 Chicago World's Fair Indian Travois Mother Print ORIGINAL HISTORIC IMAGE

"Indian Mother and Children." This is an original 1894 halftone print of the wax tableau of an Indian mother and her children traveling with horse and travois, an exhibit of the Bureau of Ethnology in the Government Building, at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. A paragraph of descriptive text is included with this print (but not shown). (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse of the print.) Period Paper has obtained a wonderful set of original halftone prints of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition. This collection of the fair's many architectural, artistic, mechanical, agricultural, industrial, archeological, ethnological, historical, and scenic attractions was published in 1894 by The Jewell N. Halligan Company. The World Columbian Exposition was held from May to October 1893 in Chicago in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the new world. In competition with many other cities, Ch