1904 ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR -- THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION


Possible Starting Places

  Alan Taylor, "Photos Of The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair," Atlantic (September 9, 2019).

  1904, The World's Fair -- Looking Back At Looking Forward:

  Louisiana Purchase Exposition -- Wikipedia:  An entry from the on-line encyclopedia.


Primary Sources

1904 World's Fair -- The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri:  An on-line edition of a 1904 guidebook.

Official Guide To The Louisiana Purchase Exposition At The City Of St. Louis, State Of Missouri, April 30th To December 1st, 1904.  St. Louis: Official Guide Company, 1904.

  Official Catalogue Of Exhibits, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, USA, 1904.  Saint Louis: Official Catalogue Company, 1904.

  The World's Fair -- Comprising The Official Photographic Views Of The Universal Exposition Held In Saint Louis.  Saint Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904.

Louisiana Purchase Exposition Miscellaneous, St. Louis Public Library Digital Collection:  An archive of primary documents associated with the Fair.

  Louisiana Purchase Exposition -- The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, University Of Missouri Digital Library:

"Kiralfy's Louisiana Purchase Spectacle: An Allegorical, Lyric And Dramatic Production In Prologue And Four Acts," 1904, Hagley Digital Archives.


Web-Sites

  1904 World's Fair Virtual Tour:

At The Fair -- The Grandness Of The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair:

Celebrating The Louisiana Purchase:

  1904 World's Fair Society:


Audio And Video Sources

"The 1904 World's Fair -- A Film By Alex Mathiesen," May 14, 2020.  [34 mins]


Photographs

  Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis Public Library Digital Collection:


Race Relations And The Fair

  Walter Johnson, "The Largest Human Zoo In World History," Lapham's Quarterly (April 14, 2020).

"'Savages' In The White House And The 1904 World's Fair," Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, July 6, 2019.

  Frederick Starr, Ainu Group At The Saint Louis Exposition.  Open Court Publishing Company: 1904.


Miscellaneous

  S. H. Dudley, "St. Louis World's Fair Of 1904 -- Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis."  [5 mins]

Jon Paul Sank's World's Fair Page (1904):  An extensive series of fair-related links.


 

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