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This is an exclusive contract between Niels Bull, his wife Margarita Bull, their six year old son Morten Bull of Singsaas, Herred, Norway, and the Lapland Exhibit Company of Chicago, Illinois, by P. H. Coney, President and Superintendent, and Emil Arner, Vice-President and Manager. The Bull family agrees to work, exhibit, and perform in native costume at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Illinois or elsewhere in the United States of American for the Lapland Exhibit Company. Their family pay rate was 12 kroners per day. The contract was canceled October 31, 1893. Patrick H. Coney, a Topeka native, was the Exposition's manager. Emil Arner may have been from Salina, Kansas. See also Kansas Memory item 227115.
Creator: Bull, Niels
Date: May 17, 1893
Item Number: 318789
Call Number: Patrick Henry Coney Collection, Manuscript Collection 316, Box 2, Folder C38
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 318789
Business and Industry - Labor - Child labor
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Actors
Collections - Manuscript
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Fairs
Date - 1890s - 1893
Home and Family - Families
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Contract
Places - International - Norway
Places - Other States - Illinois - Chicago
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Contracts
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