1893 Chicago World's Fair Portrait Syrian Woman Dancer Costume Midway Plaisance XGIC4 courtesy of Collier's Weekly

courtesy of Collier's Weekly

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1893 Chicago World's Fair Portrait Syrian Woman Dancer Costume Midway Plaisance XGIC4 courtesy of Collier's WeeklyJamelee (Syrian Dancer)." This is an original 1894 halftone print portrait of Jamelee, a Syrian dancer who performed 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 comes with a short caption commentary (not shown) and the