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Paris 1889

Paris 1889
"Concert javanais produit par un série de marmites, comme son nom l'indique d'ailleurs." Gamelan performer at the 1889 Paris exposition. From L'Exposition exotique. (Source: https://humanzoos.net/?page_id=10318)
Javanaise dancer at the Paris exposition 1889. published in L'Exposition Exotique. (Source: https://humanzoos.net/?page_id=10318)
Paris 1889
Paris 1889
Female Javanese dancer, full-length portrait, seated, in costume, Paris Exposition, 1889 (Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs LC-USZ62-109527)
Fete de Nuit a L'Esplanade des Invalides, La Danse Canaque. Illustration for L’Exposition de Paris, 1889 (Paris: Librairie Illustree, 1889).
Procession des Bonzes dans la Pagode Annamite, Paris Exposition 1889. Published in C.-L. Huard, Livre d'Or de l'Exposition, Tome II, p. 473. Paris: L. Boulanger. (Source: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/livreddelexposi2huara/page/n7/mode/2up)
Paris 1889
Actor from Theatre Annamite, full-length portrait, in costume, Paris Exposition, 1889. (Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-109510)
Actor, from Theatre Annamite, full-length portrait, in costume, Paris Exposition, 1889 (Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs LC-USZ62-109509)
Three actors from Theatre Annamite, full-length portrait, in costumes, Paris Exposition, 1889 (Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs LC-USZ62-109512)
Six Javanese women, two in native dress, four in costume, full-length portrait, seated in front of Javanese dwelling, Paris Exposition, 1889 (Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs LC-USZ62-109528)
Javanese dancers at the Paris exposition 1889. Gravure by d'André Brouillet - Bibliothèque Forney. From Revue de l'Exposition Universelle de 1889, tome 1, fig.104.
Four women dancers in Javanese Village, full-length portrait, standing, in costume, Paris Exposition, 1889 (Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-109526)
Post card of the Kampong Javanais, Exposition Universelle de 1889, Paris.
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