Jewish Dancer at Chicago’s World Fair

J.J. Gibson

1893

Photograph of figure holding sword behind her neck.
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J.J. Gibson

d. 1905

J.J. Gibson, a portrait photographer from Michigan, was the official photographer of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. After the fair he opened a photography studio, Gibson's Art Galleries, in Chicago, which later became the Montgomery Wards Portrait Studio. 

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