Name/Title
Pan-American Exhibition, Buffalo, NY 1901Entry/Object ID
2010.46.128Description
Glass lantern slide photo of the Pan-American Exhibition, Buffalo, NY 1901. This photo depicts the Pan-American Exhibition that took place in Buffalo, NY in 1901. In the foreground of the photo there is a sign for an "Infant Incubators" exhibit, a medical curiosity for the public. Many boardwalks and amusement parks had such exhibits--the most famous being housed in Coney Island's Dreamland--where premature babies were cared for in the cutting edge of baby technology: the incubator. Prior to its invention, premature babies would rarely live past birth; the babies held in the exhibits, however, had a chance of surviving to adulthood thanks to the team of nurses and the incubators they oversaw.
The Pan-American Exhibition is mainly remembered as the assassination site of the 25th President, William McKinley.