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Japanese Tea Garden, Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, 1898

Japanese Tea Garden, Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, 1898
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1No work camp

A light, plain pavilion: a contrary detail

The Japanese Tea Garden photo shows plain low wooden pavilions on bare ground, with a flagpole and one thin tree. This one does look like quick, light construction.

The questionWhy does this pavilion look so different from the sculpted palaces on the Grand Court, and what does the contrast say about how each was made?

Photo: Omaha Daily Bee · Public domain · via Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

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