Caption

Houses and people from Java at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, In the Java village.- on the Midway, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Plate 104', photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold, Chicago, photographer: HD Higinbotham, cliché maker: anonymous, 1893, Charles Dudley Arnold, HD Higinbotham, photographer, cliché maker, North America, Illinois, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 133 mm x width 190 mm, world fair, world exhibition, World's Columbian Exposition, A wide street scene shows a row of thatched-roof buildings with woven walls and open fronts along one side, with tall poles and flagpoles rising behind them and a pavilion-like structure with domed roofs visible further back; a group of people stands and sits near the buildings, including adults and children wearing patterned cloth wraps and shirts, some barefoot and some leaning on railings, while one person is seated on a raised platform; in the foreground a few figures walk toward the camera on a broad sandy path, and the sky above is partly cloudy.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26B01_356

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Keywords

Houses people Java World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 Java village.- Midway page photomechanical print number Plate 104 photographer Charles Dudley Arnold HD Higinbotham cliché maker anonymous North America Illinois paper collotype photoprint height 133 mm x width 190 mm world fair world exhibition wide street scene row thatched-roof buildings woven walls open fronts side tall poles flagpoles rising them pavilion- structure domed roofs visible further back group people stands sits near buildings adults children wearing patterned cloth wraps shirts barefoot leaning railings person seated raised platform foreground figures walk camera broad sandy path sky partly cloudy