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...
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...
A girl in a beaded dress and head covering stands with her arm in front of a tree trunk. In her hand she holds a cloth. She may be Bagobo Moro (a Muslim tribe from the western coast of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands). Since the World's Fair in...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Airships; Men
A man leans his arms on a rail in a large, beamed, sunlit room where there are two partially filled balloons and a gas bag for a dirigible. Stamped on lower left corner: 10968.
A man wearing a turban sits on a camel, probably in Festival Hall at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds a stick, and is seated behind what appear to be a pair of drums. A man with a walking stick wearing a turban and white robe...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Airships; Airplane propellers; Men
A man, possibly T. C. Benbow, of Columbus, Montana, adjusts the rudder and propellers for this airship, named the Montana Meteor, in a large, beamed room. Benbow launched the Montana Meteor at the 1904 World's Fair and remained aloft for 15...
A man, three women or girls, and a boy stand in a row while two small girls sit at their feet. The man has a mustache, is holding a cigarette, and wears a vest, cummerbund, and overcoat over one shoulder; he and the boy are wearing fezzes. The boy...
A row of men in loincloths dance behind one another, banging on metal drums. Handwritten twice at bottom of photo: Igorata Wedding Dance. The Igorots come from the Cordillera region, in the Philippines island of Luzon; since the World's Fair in St....
A woman wearing a hat, flowered shawl over a dress, and high heels stands in profile in front of a large fountain encircled by stone lions, probably in Festival Hall at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Handwritten at bottom of photo: A...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Kentucky--Social life and customs; Coal mining; Oil wells; Lumber industry; Croplands; Horse farms; Buildings; Educational facilities
Assembled in 1904 for display in the Kentucky Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in St. Louis by the chair of the Kentucky delegation, Arthur Y. Ford, two of the albums contained 309 photographs from the Appalachian,...
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...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; North Africans; Indigenous peoples; Men; Clothing & dress; Turbans
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a man wearing a silk turban, embroidered vest, collarless shirt, sash, and white cloth stands holding a staff. He may be a Nubian (from North Africa). Such "living displays" were intended to...
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...
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, an Ainu woman in a robe and scarf bends down to greet Lorenza, a Tehuelche woman (from Santa Cruz, Argentina) wearing a string headband who is sitting on the dirt ground wrapped in a blanket in which she...
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; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Copper; Forging
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, five men take turns hitting copper with mallets; they are hitting the metal which a sixth man, who is kneeling, is holding onto a block with tongs. Five of the men are wearing white sombreros. The men are...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Furnaces; Huts
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, in a yard inside a stockade fence, a man holds a shovel to an opening in a large oven under a roof. Two men, one in a sombrero, stand by two long troughs; one trough is resting on the other. The men are...
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, pedestrians walk along the sidewalk (known as the "Pike") and pairs of two women and two men cross the wide, tracked street in front of a two-story building which has curving sides, pillars, and...
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, three barefoot men in bead-adorned shorts, jackets, and sheaths, each wearing a different style of hat, hold swords. Behind them is a hut and trees. They are Bagobo Moros, a Muslim tribe from the western...
