Antique 1901 Pan-American Exposition Printing Plate Streets Of Mexico Midway For Sale

# Rare Rarity: Original 1901 Pan-American Exposition Midway Printing Plate## \"The Streets of Mexico\" Concession Master Header / Masthead BlockUp for sale is an incredibly rare piece of American printing and World\'s Fair history. This is an original, authentic antique relief metal printing plate (letterpress/electrotype cliché block) custom-commissioned for the famous 1901 Pan-American Exposition held in Buffalo, New York. This specific master header plate printed the official \"Bill of Fare\" restaurant menus, daily theater programs, and promotional Midway marketing broadsheets for \"The Streets of Mexico\"—one of the largest and most commercially successful entertainment concessions on the 1901 fairgrounds.### Item Details & Features:* **The Artwork:** A highly detailed panoramic relief carving depicting a traditional Mexican village street scene, complete with towering church spires, sweeping clouds, and a central archway reading \"STREETS OF MEXICO\". * **Bottom Banner Text:** Explicitly reads \"ON THE MIDWAY - PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION\", anchoring its historical origin directly to the 1901 Buffalo fairgrounds. * **Mirrored/Reversed Image:** Cut in traditional backwards layout so that when inked and pressed into a letterpress machine, it transfers perfectly forward-reading onto paper.* **Construction:** Features a detailed, thin relief metal face securely bonded to a heavy, thick metal alloy backing plate. Includes original perimeter mounting holes used by 1901 print shops to screw the plate flush onto a \"type-high\" wooden block.* **Dimensions:** 6\" x 4 1/4\"This artifact is an absolute must-have for collectors of World\'s Fair memorabilia, typography, 20th-century printing history, or early advertising ephemera. Because original paper documents from this concession are locked away in restricted museum archives, this durable printing block stands as one of the ultimate surviving tangible links to the 1901 Midway.Tell them you bought it-downtheblock
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