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The book of the fair : an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893 ... (1893)

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918 · Chicago : Bancroft · leaf 42

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portions of Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador, in the interests of American archaeology. It was from the island of I-a Plata, oil the coast of Ecuador, that he collected the rarest of the relics aside from those gathered from the burial ground of Ancon. The former was virgin soil for the archaeologist,… … HYGIENIC APPARATUS hold utensils made by Indian tribes of the present day. Here also is a number of pictures, a large oil portrait representing a South American native, his black body gleaming like ebony, his black hair adorned with bright-colored leathers, and his neck encircled with a necklace of…

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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