1894 Midwinter Fair Cactus Arizona Indian Village Print - Original Halftone Print Review
"Cactus in Arizona Indian Village."
This is an original 1894 halftone print of the cactus garden in the Arizona Indian Village at the 1894 California International Midwinter Exposition. Photography by I. W. Taber. (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse.)
Period Paper is pleased to offer a rare collection of original historical halftone prints of scenes of the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, together with other more general scenes of California, by noted San Francisco photographer Isaiah West Taber. Also known as the "Midwinter Exposition" or the "Midwinter Fair" this Exposition was a World's Fair, designed to follow the successful 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It was located in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco where it enjoyed a run of six months. Items from this Fair are extremely hard to come by, and this collection will be of great interest to collectors of World's Fair images and memorabilia. A short descriptive caption is included with each print. Read more...
