1893 Chicago World's Fair Portrait Samoan Man Costume Headdress Samoa Historic XEHA1 Keywords specific to this image:

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1893 Chicago World's Fair Portrait Samoan Man Costume Headdress Samoa Historic XEHA1 Keywords specific to this image:"William (Samoan)." This is an original 1894 halftone print portrait of William, a Samoan man, in his traditional costume and elaborate headdress. 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 short caption commentary (not shown) and the