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Ready for a ride in the streets of Cairo, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., 1904 – Antique Photo Print

Ready for a ride in the streets of Cairo, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., 1904, Cincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1905. — historic photograph
Ready for a ride in the streets of Cairo, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., 1904, Cincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1905.. Historic photograph from the St. Louis 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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Camels, not carriages, are the focus of this view: a rider is being offered a seat on one of the animals along the Cairo Street, a reconstructed Egyptian thoroughfare on the midway of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Fairgoers could stroll its replica shops and streets and take short rides, an exotic novelty that drew crowds to the fair's entertainment strip. The Whiting View Company of Cincinnati issued this card around 1905, after the fair had closed, so it served as a souvenir of an attraction visitors had only recently experienced. Stereo cards like this were sold in large numbers and viewed through a stereoscope, which made distant places feel close at hand.

Created / publishedCincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1905.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesCopyright by R.R. Whiting. No. 618.
SubjectsLouisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.) Camels--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 776 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161620

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