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American Indians at the Fair I

    The Department of the Interior collaborated on its Indian exhibit with the Smithsonian Institution, which would inherit the artifacts on display and exhibit them in the soon-to-be-built Arts and Industries Building in Washington, DC (constructed in 1878, modeled on the Centennial’s Government Building).

    1877
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Attribution/Credit

    Frank H. Norton, ed., Frank Leslie’s Historical Register of the United States Centennial Exposition, 1876 (New York: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, 1877).