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[Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901] – Antique Print

[Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901], 1901 — historic photograph
[Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901], 1901. 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: [Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901]

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Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition ran from May to November 1901, and this view belongs to the fair's commercial side, as the caption's "Advertisements" tracing suggests. The Detroit Publishing Company sold views like this to tourists and souvenir buyers, so the picture doubles as a record of how the fair presented itself to the public. The exposition is remembered for its electric illumination and for the assassination of President William McKinley at the Temple of Music in September, an event that cast a long shadow over the grounds. The catalog data for this print is unverified, so the exact location within the fairgrounds is worth checking against the full record.

Created / published1901
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 09533. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions; Advertisements.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,380 × 1,686 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151757

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