Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Indians of North America; Bows (Archery); Arrows
Native American men and women, some holding bows, others holding arrows, and one holding a tall pole, pose, probably in Indian Village, one of the Anthropology Villages at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Such "living displays"...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Indians of North America; Dakota Indians; Arapaho Indians; Headdresses; War bonnets; Games; Tug of war
Two teams, each composed of 4 Native American men (Sioux versus Arapahoe), wearing buckskin, breechcloth, and leggings, play tug of war before a crowd of spectators, including two Native Americans wearing feathered warbonnets. Such "living...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Indians of North America; Headdresses; War bonnets
Native Americans of all ages, some wearing feathered warbonnets; some wearing buckskin, breechcloth, and leggings; and some wearing Western-style clothing, stand in a row, probably in Indian Village, one of the Anthropology Villages at the World's...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Indians of North America; Pawnee Indians; Headdresses; Sports; Archery
Native Americans at Anthropology Days intertribal archery competition, published in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition official scrapbook. Pawnee Frank Moore, wearing a headdress with feather, braids, breechcloth, leggings, and moccasins, shoots an...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Forging; Furnaces
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a Mexican man wearing a sombrero, probably Jesus Tobano, sits on a plank connected to a piece of machinery; he is holding onto two ropes and his feet are resting on two spools of copper wire. In front of...
Four bearded men, three kerchiefed women, and two young girls, all wearing patterned kimonos, stand outdoors on dirt ground in front of a white wall with windows and buttresses. From the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the Ainu's thick hair...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Forestry
In the Forestry building at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, arches made of small logs spell out "Kentucky" connect tree trunk pillars in a large room with a metal-beamed ceiling. There are displays in the background. One display...
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....
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; People; Crowds; Entertainment
Crowds promenading along "the Pike," a wet, brick boulevard at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Some of the buildings at left have signs: "Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office," "Indian Con[. . .]."...
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...
A crowd, many holding umbrellas, stand on or near the steps to a white building, probably the United States Government Building, which has pediments, columns, two United States flags at the entrance, and more flags on top of the roof. Title...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Airships
Two balloons, one of them only partially filled, in a large, beamed room at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Stamped on lower left corner: 10969.
