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Louisiana Purchase Exposition--Old Cairo--Exhibition on the Pike"" – Historic Print

Louisiana Purchase Exposition--Old Cairo--Exhibition on the Pike"", Phila. : C.H. Graves, c1904. — historic photograph
Louisiana Purchase Exposition--Old Cairo--Exhibition on the Pike"", Phila. : C.H. Graves, c1904.. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Louisiana Purchase Exposition--Old Cairo--Exhibition on the Pike"", preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Old Cairo was one of the attractions on the Pike, the amusement strip at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, where performers in Egyptian dress presented a village-style street scene for paying visitors. This stereograph, issued by the Philadelphia publisher C.H. Graves and copyrighted in 1904, shows the exhibit as fairgoers would have seen it. Midway concessions like this one drew large crowds and gave the fair much of its popular reputation, and the paired images of stereo cards were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope at home, bringing the fair's exotic displays into parlors across the country.

Created / publishedPhila. : C.H. Graves, c1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.
NotesH54252 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves.
SubjectsLouisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.)--Exhibitions & displays. Egyptians--Performances & portrayals--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. Midways--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,272 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-189916

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