1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Sundanese Woman Java Costume Historic XGCD9 Pondicherry

Pondicherry

This piece was illustrated by Van Beers

located on Palestine's West Bank

"Newstead Abbey

1893 Chicago World's Fair Ethnic Portrait Sundanese Woman Java Costume Historic XGCD9 PondicherryDama Waja (Javanese)." This is an original 1894 halftone print portrait of Dama Waja, a Sundanese woman from the western part of the island of Java. Period Paper has obtained a rare set of large format photographic portrait images of the different ethnic people who represented various countries of the world at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition. Each image comes with a short caption commentary (not shown) and