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Antique City View - World's Fairs - Girl riding donkey in front, 1889 – Vintage Print

Antique City View - World's Fairs - Girl riding donkey in front, 1889 — historic image
Antique City View - World's Fairs - Girl riding donkey in front, 1889. Historic image from the World's Fairs collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic image captures Antique City View - World's Fairs - Girl riding donkey in front, 1889 in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Antique City View - World's Fairs - Girl riding donkey in front, 1889

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A girl riding a donkey at the head of a procession is the detail that sets this picture apart from the other views on the World's Fairs board, which tend to show grand halls, towers, and crowds. The print dates to 1889, the year Paris hosted its Exposition Universelle, the fair that gave the Eiffel Tower to the world. Fairs of this period often included street scenes and costumed attractions meant to suggest faraway places, and a donkey rider in the foreground would have drawn the eye of visitors to a busy, lively city view. Looking closely, the figure in front gives the scene a human scale that the monumental buildings behind her lack.

SubjectsHistoric Print Archive
Original scan4,096 × 3,288 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183224

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