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[Front and back cover of passport issued to F.B.J. for Pan-American Expo., Buffalo] – Historic Print

[Front and back cover of passport issued to F.B.J. for Pan-American Expo., Buffalo], 1901 — historic photograph
[Front and back cover of passport issued to F.B.J. for Pan-American Expo., Buffalo], 1901. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Front and back cover of passport issued to F.B.J. for Pan-American Expo., Buffalo]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Front and back cover of passport issued to F.B.J. for Pan-American Expo., Buffalo]

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The subject here is an object rather than a view: the front and back covers of a passport issued to photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston for the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. The fair ran from May to November 1901 and was meant to showcase trade and ties across the Western Hemisphere, with its illuminated Electric Tower as the centerpiece. Its history is shadowed by the assassination of President William McKinley on the grounds in September 1901. Johnston's credentials suggest the fair's staff and visitors were treated as a documentary subject, and the cover itself shows how such admission papers were designed.

Created / published1901
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan463 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123979

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