Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904

Varied Industries Bldg., St. Louis World's Fair

Stereograph shows the Varied Industries Building for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition under construction.

Administration Bldg. of the Great St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.

Pres. Roosevelt at the dedication ceremonies, St. Louis Exposition /

At the speaker's platform, President Theodore Roosevelt prepares to enter a carriage.

St. Louis's object lesson to anti-expansionists / Keppler.

Illustration shows a statue of Thomas Jefferson labeled "Thomas Jefferson The Father of Expansion" at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, with Puck directing the attention of George F. H... more

Vice Commissioner General Wong Kai Kah receiving site of Chinese Imper...

Photograph shows Wong Kai Kah atop a platform on the site of the future Chinese Imperial Pavilion for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, or St. Louis World's Fair, with David R. Francis, president of the exposi... more

Navajos

Group of Pueblo Indians, three men in front holding snakes, two Caucasian men in center.

DeWitt Clinton railway train

Photograph shows a DeWitt Clinton train on display.

Columbia

Photograph shows portrait of Inuit girl, Nancy Columbia, and dog taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Missouri, 1904.

Chinese girls

Photograph shows portrait of Chinese girls taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Missouri.

Liberal Arts Palace

Postcard shows an ornate building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis.

"Esquimau woman"

Photograph shows portrait of an Inuit woman taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Missouri, 1904.

Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Mines and Mining Building, Sunken Garde...

Cascades and Festival Hall from the east, Louisiana Purchase Expositio...

Mines and Metallurgy and the Liberal Arts Building from east cascade t...

Bust of President Roosevelt sculptured in butter, Louisiana Purchase E...

Grand entrance to Education and Social Economy Building, Louisaina Pur...

Education and Social Economy buildings from Festival Hall, Louisiana P...

The Visayan village from Arrowhead Lake, Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Palace of Electricity, night.

After the Battle of Colenso, Boer War exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Expo...

Festival Hall and cascades from Electricity Building, Louisiana Purcha...

Artillery in action, Battle of Modder River, Boer War exhibit, Louisia...

New York to the North Pole and Transportation Buildings, Louisiana Pur...

Transportation and Machinery Buildings and from New York to North Pole...

Grand approach to Festival Hall, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904

The Louisiana Purchase Monument

The entrance gates. Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

West pavilion and floral garden, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Lo...

Hunter's cabin in Esquimaux village, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo.

Five Eskimos in doorway of cabin, with four dogs outside.

Arrival of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt for luncheon at West Pavil...

The great entrance to the Palace of Manufactures, World's Fair, St. Lo...

Festival Hall with Statue of Napoleon in foreground, World's Fair, St....

View of Grand Basin and Palace of Varied Industries, lighted by thousa...

Domestic arts of the Bagobos women, in the Philippine Village, St. Lou...

Boers working a field gun, Boer War, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.

Evening effect of electric lights on Manufacturers Bldg., reflected in...

Imperial Japanese gardens and Exposition from half way up the ferris w...

Iowa, terrace of 14 states comprising original Louisiana Purchase Worl...

"Spring" and "Bacchante," Italian statuary, Manufactures Building, Lou...

After the battle victorious British awaiting arrival of Boer prisoners...

Imposing Louisiana Purchase Monument, commemorating the Louisiana Acqu...

Fountains and Education Building, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo.

Towards the De Forest Tower from Plaza of St. Louis, World's Fair, St....

Machinery Hall from across central and eastern cascade, World's Fair S...

Statue of Louis Joliet, Louisiana Purchase Monument and Festival Hall ...

Festal beauty of leaping fountains and noble exhibit buildings around ...

S. Dakota, terrace of 14 states comprising original Louisiana Purchase...

"A midsummer-night's dream" - Moonlight on the Grand Basin, World's Fa...

Manufactures and Education Bldgs., from Wireless Tel. Tower S. to Fest...

World's Fair officials in parade on St. Louis Day, World's Fair, St. L...

The slope of Art Hill, Festival Hall and w. pavillion at left, Machine...

Looking south across the beautiful cascades, Festival Hall at right, S...

A vista of the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo.

Plaza St. Louis N. E. from the center of Grand Basin, World's Fair, St...

Government Building from Daniel Boone Bridge over south lagoon, Libera...

Tired World's Fair visitors resting at the Sunken Gardens, World's Fai...

Louisiana Monument and Palace of Varied Industries, World's Fair, St. ...

Kansas City's crack team of Midland Camp carrying state banner, M. W. ...

Machinery building at night, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis,...

A section of the World's Fair grounds as seen from the ferris wheel, S...

Esquimaux fighting polar bear in the Arctic regions exhibit at World's...

On St. Louis Plaza, World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, Mo.

Palace of Varied Industries, considered one of the most striking examp...

Celebrating a century's advance, boat parade passing Electricity Bldg....

Over gushing fountains to Palace of Electricity from Festival Hall, Wo...

Gondolas, Flower Parade, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo....

East lagoon and Palaces of Education and Manufactures, north from the ...

Feathery fountains above the basin, Electricity and Varied Industries ...

Panoramic view, World's Fair, St. Louis, U. S. A.

Its gushing fountains beauteous to the eye, make all the place seem a ...

U. S. Government Building, from Education Building over Sunken Gardens...

Festival Hall, beautiful and imposing, the pivot of the great Expositi...

The boat landing near Palace of Manufactures, Louisiana Purchase Expos...

Statuary, fountain-terraces, monument and exhibit buildings about the ...

View between Transportation and Machinery Buildings, World's Fair, St....

Louisiana Purchase Monument, Varied Industries Bldg., and gondolas on ...

Magic splendor of electric blaze - Festival Hall and fountains in Basi...

Grand illumination of Varied Industries Building and waterway, World's...

Electric illumination of the cascades and of Education and Mines Build...

The great floral clock, it's dial 100 feet in diameter, World's Fair, ...

Beautifully illuminated Festival Hall from West Cascade, Louisiana Pur...

East from West Restaurant Pavilion over West Cascade and Grand Basin t...

The Palace of Varied Industries, a magnificent building covering 14 ac...

[Opening day crowd around large column at Louisiana Purchase Expositio...

Floral clock and the ferris wheel, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. ...

Millions paused to listen to the "Laughing Waters" of the World's Fair...

Looking down through the ferris wheel at the World's Fair, St. Louis, ...

In the Rainbow Gardens, World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, Mo.

Allegorical group, "The Apotheosis of St. Louis" and equestrian statue...

Festival Hall and the Cascades from the East Court, Louisiana Purchase...

Wierd beauty of electric lights on Liberal Arts Building, reflected in...

Eskimo boy and his faithful dog, in an igloo (representing a snow-hous...

Machinery Palace filled with the wonders of modern invention (view S. ...

Palace of Electricity at night, looking from lower west cascade, Louis...

Filipino village, Agricultural Building in distance, Louisiana Purchas...

Japan in America - pretty maids in garden before a Japanese tea-house,...

The Grand Basin from Art Hill, Louisaina Purchase Exposition, St. Loui...

Cowboys "Shooting up the Town," statue on St. Louis Plaza, Louisiana P...

Floral clock and north end of Palace of Agriculture, from Ceylon Build...

An enchanted city, The St. Louis Exposition at night