Oriental and Occidental Northern and Southern Portrait Types of the Midway Plaisance. A collection of Photographs of Individual Types of various nations from all part of the World who represented, in the Department of Ethnology, The Manners, Customs, Dress, Religions, Music and other distinctive traits and peculiarities of that Race. With Interesting and Instructive Descriptions accompanying each Portrait. Together with an Introduction by Prof. F. W. Putnam, of Harvard University, Chair of the Department of Ethnology at the World’s Columbian Exposition. ...
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Year: 1894
Entry: Oriental and Occidental Northern and Southern Portrait Types of the Midway Plaisance. A collection of Photographs of Individual Types of various nations from all part of the World who represented, in the Department of Ethnology, The Manners, Customs, Dress, Religions, Music and other distinctive traits and peculiarities of that Race. With Interesting and Instructive Descriptions accompanying each Portrait. Together with an Introduction by Prof. F. W. Putnam, of Harvard University, Chair of the Department of Ethnology at the World’s Columbian Exposition. ... St. Louis: N. D. Thompson Publishing Co., 1894. unpaged.
Location: St. Louis, MO
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Oriental and Occidental Northern and Southern Portrait Types of the Midway Plaisance. A collection of Photographs of Individual Types of various nations from all part of the World who represented, in the Department of Ethnology, The Manners, Customs, Dress, Religions, Music and other distinctive traits and peculiarities of that Race. With Interesting and Instructive Descriptions accompanying each Portrait. Together with an Introduction by Prof. F. W. Putnam, of Harvard University, Chair of the Department of Ethnology at the World’s Columbian Exposition. ...
Printer/Publisher: N. D. Thompson Publishing Co.
Language: English
Notes: Opens with portraits of Far-Away-Moses and his wife, Rebecca Meise Alithensii (Constantinople, Turkey). There is, in addition, a portrait of a Jewish dancing girl, Rahlo Jammele, from Jerusalem, and on the following page, Solomon Levi, an Egyptian Jew. A second Jewish dancer, Nazha Kassik, from Beirut, is presented. A page is devoted to a group of Sephardic men, all from Constantinople; R. J. Levi, a fourth man from Turkey, appears on a separate page. Cover title: Types of the Midway.