Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indigenous peoples; East Indians; Tibetans; Clothing & dress; Headdresses; Elephants
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, fifteen Tibetan and North Indian men stand in a row in front of two elephants and an archway to a temple, with two other men (one apparently Caucasian and wearing a cap and jacket; the other wearing a...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Bagobo (Philippine people); Indigenous peoples; Men
Young man with hair to his waist over a bead-adorned jacket and shorts, posing outdoors in front of trees. He is likely Bulon, a nineteen-year-old Bagobo Moro (a Muslim tribe from the western coast of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands). Since the...
Young woman, possibly Igorot, smoking a pipe, wearing a striped cloth wrapped over her other clothes at the shoulder. She is standing near several thatched-roofed huts, probably in the Philippine Exhibit. Since the World's Fair in St. Louis,...
A car labeled "World's Fair Auto Transit Co." filled with riders passes in front of two horse sculptures at the edge of the "Grand Canal" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The Palace of Education and Social Economy is...
View of "Grand Canal" of World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, with domed Festival Hall and Central Cascades (three fountains). The right side of the canal is bordered by a barrier with some low and high pillars, and a boat traverses the...
Portrait of Mary Cecil Addison (Mrs. William T.) Gould of St. Louis, Missouri. She is wearing a large brimmed hat and fur-collared coat. The photograph has been marked with paint, warping at top edge, and spots of discoloration. Handwritten on back...
Tugboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
SERGEANT FLOYD, a diesel propeller inspection and towboat with steel hull (138 ft. x 30 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1932. Owned by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, SERGEANT FLOYD operated on the Missouri and upper Mississippi Rivers before...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Ship equipment & rigging; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
MARK TWAIN, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (157 ft. x 42 ft. x 6 ft.), and the last steam towboat made by Howard, was built in 1931. Owned by Inland Waterways Corporation in St. Louis, she operated on the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
STE. GENEVIEVE, a side-wheel railroad transfer with wood hull (214 ft. x 45 ft. x 7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1903. Owned by Southern Missouri Railroad, STE. GENEVIEVE operated on the Mississippi River between Little Rock Landing, Missouri and...
Emmet Field was born in Louisville in 1841. He was educated in Missouri, at Westminster College, and served in the 2d Missouri Cavalry of the Confederate army. He returned to Louisville in 1864, and the next year graduated from the law department...
Two-story wooden building at the corner of Thirty-Fourth and Missouri (now I-64), Louisville, Kentucky; looks more like a residential property than a commercial one. Ground floor houses Joe Murta Cafe, which advertises Frank Fehr Lager Beer and...
African Americans; African American physicians; African Americans--Hospitals; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Education; Segregation in education; African Americans--Medical care; Hospitals; Medical education; Race...
Oral history interview with Louisville physician Maurice Rabb. Dr. Rabb discusses his early life and education in Mississippi. He speaks of his experiences as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, comparing race relations in his...
Eleven men and women stand on the top deck of a docked, smoke-blowing ferry boat which is marked "Katherine" and "Cairo. Birds Point. Wickliffe." The boat, two stories with a small enclosure above, is on the Mississippi River,...
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...
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...
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...
