Model Houses and Poles
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Model Houses and Poles at the 1893 WCE Exhibition
View a panoramic photo of models at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (WCE) in Chicago.
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Help Find the Missing Model Houses and Poles
Since the early 20th century, 13 houses and poles from the model village of Skidegate, British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii have gone missing. We need your help to locate them.
This is a collaborative project between the Burke Museum’s Bill Holm Center and the Haida Gwaii Museum at Kaay 'llnagaay. Research has been funded by the UW Royalty Research Fund, a Canadian Embassy Senior Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Exhibit Planning Grant, and the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington. The Field Museum of Natural History has facilitated research on their collections and archival records.
