An antique American album titled Portraits of the Midway Plaisance by Frederic Ward Putnam, 1839-1915, American anthropologist. The book was published in 1894 after the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 that was held in Midway Plaisance, a public park in Chicago, Illinois in honor of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and was one of the most successful and influential of world's fairs. The book is a collection of photographs of individual types of various nations from all parts of the world with a thorough description of the manners, customs, dress, religions, music and other distinctive traits accompanying each portrait. Black leather hardcover with dark red corners and golden title lettering, torn binding. Black and white high quality photo illustrations. Antique Americana Ethnology Book Collectibles.