1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Elephant Hide African Leather ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4 EG1 The predecessor focused its interests

The predecessor focused its interests on household items

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1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Elephant Hide African Leather ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4 EG1 The predecessor focused its interests"The Elephant Hide." This is an original 1893 halftone print of an elephant hide at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. The African elephant hide was displayed in the Shoe and Leather Building. The green weight, of the hide, was eight hundred pounds and the tanned weight was five hundred pounds. It took two years to tan the hide. (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse.) Period Paper has obtained a wonderful set of