The Detroit Free Press Portfolio of the Midway Types
Detroit: The American Engraving Company Publishers & Printers, 1893. First Printing. Saddle-stapled wrappers. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Saddle-stapled wraps with printed illustrated front cover. Both covers detached, and with age-toning to edges. Interior quite sound. Good-. Item #9662
A remarkable exhibition-in-print of the variety of world ethnicities arrayed at the Chicago World's Fair. This aspect of the midway was an exploitative, carnie-like objectification of human beings featuring a Kurd, a female Turkish dancer, swordsmen from Damascus, a "donkey boy" from Cairo, et al. Scarce: OCLC locates only two cataloged institutional copies, at the University of Michigan and the Michigan State Library. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing.
Price: $150.00