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[LEWIS & CLARK EXPOSITION -- PHOTOGRAPH].Biblio.com

Inspecting site of Lewis & Clark Exposition Portland Oregon July 18 1902. Large panoramic silver gelatin photograph showing the Exposition Board of Directors standing on the Railway lines on the Willamette Heights above Guild’s Lake with the view of Swan Island across the Willamette River in the distance.

1819réf. 52180Portland OR: n.p. July 18 1902. One panoramic silver gelatin photograph printed on matte finish thick photographic stock sized 8 x 24 in. preserved in the original dark stained wood frame sized 10.25 x 26.5 in. with very faint title inscription in white ink below image in clear cursive hand very minor damage & loss to the very lower right corner of image still VG copy expertly cleaned with new archival backing. This exceedingly scarce original photograph records the site selection inspection by the Lewis & Clark Exposition Board of Directors July 18 1902 the day after the Site Subcommittee had recommended on July 17 1902 that the Board choose City Park for the Exposition site. In fact many different sites were proposed at the meeting including Henry Corbett’s preference for City park while the Ladd interests advocated for a site along Hawthorne Boulevard. Nonetheless the Board adjourned into executive session and as a result of a last minute proposal by Henry Dosch it decided that they would examine the Guild’s Lake site in detail as evidenced by this photograph showing the several board members standing upon the Electric Railway line tracks on the Willamette Heights next to the land proposed for development by the Scottish-American Investment Company. When the Board reconvened after an August hiatus the vote was 6-2 in favor of Guild’s Lake. Robert Livingstone who owned the Scottish-American Investment Company set about with his real estate development partners Russell & Blyth to build a group of Arts & Crafts homes designed by Emil Schacht in the Willamette Heights subdivision which would inspire Portland residential architecture in the decades following the Exposition. Peter Guild 1797-1870 led his family over the Oregon Trail in 1847 lost a herd of cattle to the Oregon Territorial militia during the Cayuse Indian War and eventually homesteaded on Guild’s Lake constructing a large octagon block house which proved to be a very popular Public House and later the site for the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition. See: Jim Heuer & Roy Roos The Emil Schacht Houses in Willamette Heights: The Cradle of Arts and Crafts Architecture in Portland 2002 pp. 2-10; Thacher The Site of the Lewis and Clark Exposition The Pacific Monthly Vol. 7 pp. 210-212; Finn J.D. John Long-lost Guild’s Lake was Once Portland’s Water Wonderland Offbeat Oregon October 21 2012. n.p., unknown

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[PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION -- PHOTOGRAPHS]. LYMAN, [Samuel] & MACKSON, [Isadore].Biblio.com

A very scarce set of original albumen souvenir photos shot at the 1901 Pan-American World’s Fair in Buffalo New York. These “unofficial” photos capture the Midway the US Government Building the Electric Tower the Fine Arts Building the Temple of Music and night shots of the Exposition lit with electric light.

1901réf. 63092Buffalo NY & Chicago IL: Mackson; Lyman 1901. Archive of 46 original albumen photographs sized from 3 x 6 in. up to 4 x 6 in. all of the images smaller than 4 x 5 in. on albumen paper stock many w/ embossed photographer’s stamps several w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative some w/ small rubber stamp at lower fore-edge of verso as well as pencil manuscript annotations identifying subject inventory nos. w/ in negatives of several a few w/ evidence of having been previously mounted a couple w/very slight dog-eared corners 1 w/ closed tear at lower fore-edge a couple w/ image evidencing poor process chemicals still an exceptional group of images. This set of photographs was created by two different Illinois & Missouri photographers at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo NY -- both of whom had lived and worked in Chicago at the beginning of the 1890’s offering reasonably priced “unofficial” vernacular images of the 1893 Columbian Exposition World’s Fair followed by the Pan-American World’s Fair. The fair featured a range of acts and attractions featured at the Exposition which included Bostock’s Trained Wild Animals “A Trip to the Moon” “Cleopatra’s Temple” Henry Roltair’s illusionist show “House upside down” and the Battle of Missionary Ridge Cyclorama. Many of the Exposition buildings including the prominent Electric Tower were covered in approximately 2 million 100 watt incandescent light bulbs producing an incredible display when turned on each night attracting millions of people who visited. This Exposition marked a defining moment in Buffalo history with the city becoming the focus of international architectural artistic technological and industrial attention at the Fair. It is sadly largely remembered as the scene of the tragic assassination of President McKinley. Vernacular souvenir photos are quite scarce and these have an unusual sharpness in light of the fact that like the 1893 Columbian all were prevented from bringing in tripods to shoot the Exposition. One of the photographs captures African natives from the Midway’s “African Village” which incorporated Africans from the colonial empires of Great Britain Belgium Germany & France along with participants from Georgia who were “staged” in the “Old Plantation” representing the enslavement of African-Americans in North America. Another Black History exhibit included was the “Negro Exhibit” previously exhibited at the 1900 L’Exposition Universelle in Paris depicting the accomplishments of formerly enslaved people and languished at the far back of the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building. Samuel Lyman 1854-1939 was an intrepid tinkerer junk dealer and photographer who shot souvenir photos for his customers during the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Two of his sons Joseph Lyman 1887-1953 and Harry Lyman 1883-1940 became successful photographers in Kansas City MO during the Roaring 20’s. Mackson fl. 1885-1910 immigrated from Russia into Chicago in the 1880’s and operated a small photo studio there until about 1900 before relocating to Kansas City and St. Louis MO during the opening decade of the 20th Century operating photography studios in both cities. See: The Midway Buffalo New York Uncrowned Community Builders 2025. Mackson; Lyman, unknown

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[PARIS EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE 1889]. MONOD, E[mile].Biblio.com

L’Exposition Universelle de 1889. Grand ouvrage illustre historique encyclopedique descriptif publie. . . ; Album. . . .

1890réf. 61004Paris: E. Dentu Editeur Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Letteres 1890. Four Vols. Folio. 9.75 x 13 in. xxxi 1 666 2; 4 618 2; 4 670 2; 8 pp unpaginated. with 82 engravings on 70 plates many double-page. Extra-illustrated title page frontispiece in vol. I 100’s of text woodcut-engravings tables diagrams charts decorated head- and tail-pieces decorated initials. Uniformly bound in elaborately decorated gray-lilac-coloured cloth embossed decorative borders in burgundy-colour gilt lettering front covers & spines t.e.g. minor edgewear inner hinges starting in a few places due to weight of the textblock minor wear and slight bumping to corners darkening and more wear to Atlas volume still a VG set. First edition of this nicely printed and weighty set chronicling the fourth great Paris World’s Fair an extraordinary Exposition which refashioned Paris and celebrated the Centennial of the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. The Exposition was intended to pull France out of a ruinous recession and attracted over 61000 exhibitors as well as 32 million visitors many of whom came to view the iconic Eiffel Tower and even a profit of 8000000 francs. This lavish production details the development and history of the Exposition the construction of the Eiffel Tower as well as the development of the sites along the Seine. The companion album includes 82 woodcut-engraved images executed by such artists as Baude Baulenaz and Hauger many of them from original photographs shot by Messiers J. Levy et Cie. Levy had also shot photographs for the 1867 Paris L’Exposition Universelle and his photos captured many views of the exhibition grounds and buildings and focused on many in the Javanese Tonkin and Streets of Cairo attractions. E. Dentu, Editeur, Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Letteres, hardcover

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[California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894]Biblio.com

Sunset City and Sunset Scenes cover title

1894réf. 008457San Francisco: H. S. Crocker 1894. Hardcover. Fine. MIDWINTER FAIR. Oblong quarto. 10x13 inches. Three parts bound together. Illustrated with 8 full-page lithographed color plates by Dickman-Jones Co. of San Francisco plus the full set of 24 full-page lithographed color plates by H. S. Crocker Co. plus over 213 full-page black & white photographs with extensive descriptive text including 13 of 14 double-page panoramas. Publisher's binding of three-quarter brown morocco darker cloth sides gilt lettering and pictorial element on cloth cover gilt-lettered spine. Outer hinges and spine ends rubbed 3 corners show light wear. A fine clean copy. First edition. With the bookplate of Thomas Wayne Norris and included in the famous Norris Catalogue. An incredibly scarce tile with the full complement of 24 full-page color lithographs Series I & II of scenes and buildings at the Midwinter Fair also issued by H. S. Crocker Co. and the addition of the souvenir grouping Glimpses of the Midwinter Fair issued by Dickman-Jones Co. to their customers with 8 full-page color lithographs of the Fair bound in with its original wrappers. Sunset City and Sunset Scenes is usually found only with the Taber black & white reproductions. We have never had a copy bound with the full series of color lithographs although over the years we've seen a few odd plates. The large number of black and white photographic reproductions include a number of views of the buildings and grounds of the Midwinter Fair held in Golden Gate Park; they are interspersed with select views of the natural wonders of the State. Nearly all the photographs are by Isaiah W. Taber official photographer of the Fair. The text for the non-Fair images was written by J. M. Hutchings; the twenty-four lithographs issued by Crocker were drawn by the famous western artist H. W. Hansen. Norris Norris Catalogue this copy: 3493; Rocq Glimpses of the Midwinter Fair: 11355; Rocq Sunset City: 11359; no Auction Records that include the color plates. H. S. Crocker hardcover

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