Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title Midway Plaisance-Dahomans [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1893
Date 1893
Physical Description 1 photograph : glass transparency ; negative 3 x 4 in. (lantern slide format)
Description Lantern slide showing a group of barefooted Black men Dahomans carrying a man in a fabric litter during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The four men rest the wooden beams on top of their heads on head pads and hold their hands above their heads to support the beams. In the front left, the barechested man is attired in a necklace and a floral patterned sarong. In the front right, the man is attired in a sleeveless shirt with an American flag print, a belt with a pouch, and knee-length white shorts. In the right rear, the man is attired in a sleeveless white shirt, knee-length shorts, and an arm bracelet. In the background, white men and women spectators look on. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people, a Gbe ethnic group.
Notes Contains MCM stamp. Title printed on label.
Purchase 2001.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
Edited.
Subject World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Fon (African people)
Lifting & carrying -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Litters.
Men, Black.
Spectators -- Illinois -- Chicago.
African American History
Black men -- West Africa.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Chicago (Ill.)
Genre Lantern slides.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2169]
Accession number P.9895.2169