1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Syrian Man Turban Costume Historic CAT Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company

Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company in New York City

Note the man resting beneath the lion

This is an original 1920 black and white halftone print of a vegetable vendor in the streets of Rio de Janeiro

an artist and teacher born in Cincinnati

This is an original 1932 black and white halftone print that depicts two Middle Eastern men named Hamumi and Kathiri

1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Syrian Man Turban Costume Historic CAT Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company"Mere Alli Harfush (Syrian)." This is an original 1894 halftone print portrait of Mere Alli Harfush, a Syrian man who performed as a horseman and a swordsman in the Wild East Show on 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