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a most picturesque ceremony

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The Duke of Cornwall Receiving the Indian Chief, Bull's Head /
detail (glitched scan, across gutter, inverted; levels 50 1.00 255)
ex The Sphere : An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home (November 2, 1901)
NYPL copy, digitized April 13, 2015
full page spread/scan here

The great Indian pow-wow which the Duke of Cornwall attended on the prairie at Calgary near the foot of the Rocky Mountains on September 28 was a most picturesque ceremony. Three thousand Indians, the pensioners of the Dominion Government, were present...

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via failed search for the publishing sphere reader

The Sphere was full of the doings of European royalty.
 

13 June 2017

tags:
Calgary