1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Javanese Orchestra Gong Band ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4 TRV2 Snow and Company

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This is an original 1942 black and white print ad for Norfolk and Western Railway

1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Javanese Orchestra Gong Band ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4 TRV2 Snow and Company"The Javanese Orchestra." This is an original 1893 halftone print of the Javanese Orchestra at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. The orchestra was called a gamelan, or gong band, and it was organized and maintained by Mr. Kirkhovan, a wealthy Dutch planter. (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse.) Period Paper has obtained a wonderful set of halftone prints of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World