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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...

via failed search for the publishing sphere reader

The Sphere was full of the doings of European royalty.
 

13 June 2017

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Calgary