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Newspaper article about the "baby show" at the AYP Expo that awarded prizes to babies of all different "kinds."

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Newspaper article about a premature baby that died on her way to the Infant Incubator exhibit at the AYP Expo. The parents had hoped that the exhibit could save her, but they arrived too late.

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The facade of the Baby Incubator exhibit on the Pay Streak at the AYP Expo. As one can see, the "Baby Incubator Café" is attached to the exhibit building.

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A photographic closeup of a baby in a baby incubator at the AYP Expo.

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Photograph of a few nurses and a baby in an exam room as part of the Baby Incubator exhibit at the AYP Expo.

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An American cartoon of 1867 on the Alaska purchase showing Secretary of State William H. Seward and President Andrew Johnson welcoming the representatives of the new territory to Washington, D.C.

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The signing of the Alaska Treaty of Cessation on March 30, 1867. L–R: Robert S. Chew, William H. Seward, William Hunter, Mr. Bodisco, Eduard de Stoeckl, Charles Sumner and Frederick W. Seward.

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Newspaper ad in which the Baby Incubator exhibit at the AYP Expo is advertised as "educational" and life-saving.

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A newspaper ad selling baby incubators to hospitals and sideshows alike.

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Caption on image: "Raltugia" takes life easy in her teddy bear costume. Eskimo village, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Seattle, Wash. 1909
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