Esquimaux fighting polar bear in the Arctic regions exhibit at World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. – Antique Wall Art
(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: Esquimaux fighting polar bear in the Arctic regions exhibit at World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., 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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Esquimaux fighting polar bear in the Arctic regions exhibit at World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo.
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A staged tableau from the Arctic regions exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, this stereograph shows figures identified as Esquimaux struggling with a polar bear. The fair marked the centennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and filled its grounds with displays of distant peoples and landscapes, and dioramas like this one turned the Arctic into a theatrical spectacle for paying visitors. The Whiting View Company of Cincinnati issued the view as a stereo card, and its record of a constructed scene shows how popular entertainment of the era presented northern peoples to the public. Today the image reveals as much about exhibition practices as about life in the Arctic.
| Created / published | Cincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1904. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H53178 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 295. Copyright by R.R. Whiting. |
| Subjects | Louisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.)--Exhibitions & displays. Dioramas--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. Eskimos--Exhibitions--1900-1910. Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. Polar bears--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,257 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-182215 |
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