In a large room with a metal beamed ceiling within the Palace of Agriculture at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a display table featuring a miniature farm with log cabin next to a field of crops highlights Kentucky's tobacco growers; a row...
Several displays in a large room with a grid of metal beams at the ceiling within the Palace of Agriculture at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. On top of one of the displays, an enormous model of a tobacco leaf rises between two octagonal...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Forestry
In the Forestry Building at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, Kentucky's forestry exhibit features rectangular wood boards displayed along two aisles. The boards are inscribed with their type of wood: "Quartered White Oak,"...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Events; Rites & ceremonies; People; Crowds; Military uniforms
Six men in military uniforms with white gloves and swords stand before a crowd of women (some holding parasols) and a few men at a ceremony opening the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The man in the center, with the plumed hat and epaulets, is...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Government officials; Men
Secretary of War William Howard Taft (third from left), President Theodore Roosevelt's representative at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri (and his successor as U.S. President, in 1909), exchanges greetings with local dignitaries: Thomas H....
At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a crowd of people stand in concentric rings around a track, watching what appears to be a parade, while people walk on a path through the center of the grassy plot in the middle of the track. There...
Crowds stand in sections on the walks in front of a palatial white building with columns and spires. A large white monument, topped by a model of the Statue of Liberty standing on a globe supported by children or cherubs, is on the lawn. Four words...
Pedestrians walk in front of the Palace of Varied Industries, a long white building with columns, a portico, and a cupola, at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. A sign near a group of trees in a small plot of grass says "No...
The opening ceremonies of the 1904 World's Fair at the Plaza of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. A crowd, seated on wide benches, faces two men at a podium at the base of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Monument. The monument bears the words of...
The opening ceremonies of the 1904 World's Fair at the Plaza of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. A crowd stands at the base of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Monument, alongside one of the palaces . Stamped on lower left corner: 4453. Stamped...
Smooth, reflective canal (also referred to as the lagoon) and bridge, with Palace of Manufactures, featuring columns, dome, and arches, at left, and other World's Fair structures partially visible. People and carriages traverse the sidewalk and...
View of "Grand Canal" (also known as the lagoon) and bridge at World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, with Palace of Liberal Arts at left; Palace of Mines and Metallurgy at right; and United States Government Building at rear. There are a...
Sculptures of a bull and of children; Grand Canal (lagoon); and Palace of Manufactures at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. People cross the bridge alongside the sculptures. Stamped on lower left corner: 4210. Stamped on lower right corner:...
Pedestrians walk or sit on benches along a wide, tree-lined path left of the "Grand Canal" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The Palace of Manufactures is visible beyond the canal. Stamped on lower left corner: 4674. Stamped on...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Buildings; Exhibition buildings; People
Building at World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, with a first floor and small second floor topped by a dome and United States flag. Over the top portion of the entrance hang two United States flags which are at either side of a white flag showing...
Two-story brick building with a pinnacled tower. "The Town Hall" is written above the building's top windows, which hold a banner reading "National Educational Association." Two curving sets of stairs with statues in front lead...
Row of buildings on Model Street at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri; the center one, marked "San Francisco," has a rectangular tower; the one to the right is "Guild Hall." Two women with a parasol walk down a road in...
Stone building with pediment, faux columns, and two large bell towers reads "California" above its arched door; it is a replica of the old Franciscan Mission of La Rabida, at Santa Barbara, recreated for the World's Fair in St. Louis,...
Two-story white Colonial building with a large, pillared front porch and windows with shutters. At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, the New Jersey State Building replicates the old Ford House at Morristown, New Jersey. There are four tall,...
Kentucky's Tobacco Exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, is an interior table display and glass cabinet display behind a metal cordon. On the table are cubbyholes of circular items, and two model buildings. The cabinets may contain...
