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Kate Halliday Mickle Diary, 1893
Kate Mickle 1893 Diary 45.pdf
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House furnishings, Jewellry, perfumes, silk worms, silks etc. dress embroidered in pearls, Big Stove (Garland) Beautiful furniture.
Oct 17th Tues.
Dahomey Village. Mud cabins covered with figures. Gods, Mud Shapes covered with clotted blood flies etc. Grinding corn with a stone. Music, Stove pipes drums etc. Dance, a stately advance a few stick ups & another advance etc. papoose. Thatched houses. Chinese temple. Old Vienna Finest glass in the world. soap in the shape of peaches, pears, apples etc. East India Palace Gold work. Algerian Palace Many things for sale. Streets of Cairo. Camels & donkeys ridden by visitors. Helmets rugs etc. Turkish Mahommedan {Mohammedan} Temple, Obelisk. Persian War Tent 400 Yrs old. worth $1000 000. All hand work. The Work of 35000 Turkish women for 5 Yrs & then presented to the Shah for a war tent. Bed of Princess of Turkey 300 Yrs old. Valued at $5000. Streets of Constantinople a lot of Shops. Japanese {?}. Blarney Castle.
California Building . Fruit preserved. Ball of oranges. pyramids of bottles, Raisins, Glass case of Walnuts, Pampas grass, Prune horse & Man. Californian Lion