The Midway Plaisance featured carnival rides, food stalls, and inhabited “villages” purporting to display architecture and customs from around the world.
The white, Beaux-Arts buildings declared that the center of the world's innovation had moved to the U.S., and was under the exclusive control of white men.
This jug is one of the earliest known alkaline-glazed stoneware face vessels made by slaves or their descendants in the Edgefield District of South Carolina.