Two Siberian women stand with quiet dignity before a plain wooden backdrop at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909 in Seattle, Washington — their fur-trimmed parkas, hide boots, and beaded necklace rendered in vivid hand-applied tinting that transforms the original photograph into something approaching a painted portrait. This remarkable card, numbered 192 in the series published by Edward H. Mitchell of San Francisco (printed in America), documents one of the most significant World's Fairs of the Progressive Era: the A-Y-P Exposition ran June 1–October 16, 1909, and drew nearly 3.7 million visitors to what is now the University of Washington campus, showcasing the economic potential of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. "Living exhibits" of indigenous and foreign peoples were a troubling hallmark of this era of expositions, and cards like this one are today important primary sources for historians of race, empire, and display culture. The card is unused, the back pristine, published by Edw. H. Mitchell at San Francisco under his standard divided-back format with domestic 1¢ / foreign 2¢ postage notation.