1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Elephant Hide African Leather ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4 EB1 Bonnybrook Milk Chocolates

Bonnybrook Milk Chocolates

Elisha Otis was hoisted into the air aboard one of his safety elevators

a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia

near Rat Mountain

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1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Elephant Hide African Leather ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4 EB1 Bonnybrook Milk Chocolates"The Elephant Hide." This is an original 1893 halftone print of an elephant hide at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. The African elephant hide was displayed in the Shoe and Leather Building. The green weight, of the hide, was eight hundred pounds and the tanned weight was five hundred pounds. It took two years to tan the hide. (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse.) Period Paper has obtained a wonderful set of