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1904 St. Louis World's Fair
This view of the majestic Festival Hall, the richest architectural jewel of the Exposition, was taken from the slope east of the building, near the…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
The Government of the United States has generously participated in all the important expositions in the country, and its building at the Louisiana…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
When the lights were turned on the effect was enchanting, as thousands testified who broke forth in monosyllables of ecstasy, when they first beheld…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
The remarkable advance in electrical engineering and the new discoveries in the sciences during the last ten years made the exhibition in the Palace…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
One of the architectural triumphs of the Exposition was the successful blending of classical architecture with the wealth of form which the modern…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
On an island created by the digging of the lagoons stood in purely classical, Grecian architecture the Palace of Education.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
The guns shown in the picture are twelve-inch guns for battleships.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Texas has a total land area of 262,290 square miles, or 167,865,600 acres, of which seventy-five per cent are farm land.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
This birdseye view takes in the Palace of Liberal Arts in the left foreground, the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy, one of the pavilions flanking the…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Missouri selected a Roman type of architecture, crowning the whole with a hemispherical gilded dome topped with a large statue of Winged Victory.