Performers on the "streets of Mexico"

Buffalo(N.Y.)--Exhibitions

Pan-American Exposition (1901:Buffalo)

Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.)--Photographs

Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.) --Songs and music

This is a photograph of eight Mexican performers in traditional outfits with sombreros. Seven of them are holding an instrument each. They are posing in the "Streets of Mexico" in front of Mexican cuisine restaurants.

Arnold, Charles Dudley

From the collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. In Kerry S. Grant,The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color, and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo 1901, Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press, 2001. p. 87.

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Ethnic stereotypes, Memorial photographs, Photographic prints

LIB-005_0173

Buffalo (N.Y.)

Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901