Images from the African Village, Pan American Exposition 1901

Photographs courtesy of the Buffalo Museum of Science.

Young girl in front of straw wall.

Crowd dressed in traditional African attire at the Pan American Expo gates.

Boy dressed in traditional African attire.

Man dressed in traditional African attire, holding a sword.

A group of men wearing traditional African attire.

A couple riding a camel.

A man dressed in traditional African attire.

A man wearing traditional African attire, talking to a woman with early 1900s attire.

An African village, with metal structures and powerlines in the background.

A woman wearing traditional African attire, with a man wearing an early 1900s suit.

A group of people wearing traditional African attire.

A man in front of a museum sign.

An African village, with metal structures and power lines in the background.

A woman standing at the doorway of a small hut.

A man at a window.

Three people near wooden fences and straw houses.

A young girl with family.

Two people under a straw house.

Two men standing.

A man sitting with a hat and striped attire.

A woman with a baby on her back, and a man in a chair.

A person stands with a wide-brim hat.

A man stands in traditional African attire, while a man observes.

A person stands in traditional African attire.

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Images from the African Village, Pan American Exposition 1901

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