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1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 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.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
The view shown here is looking east from the Observation Wheel.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
This picture reproduces the view from a point near the northeast angle of the waterways. It shows the stairway of the Cascade Gardens.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
If a proof was needed that "truth is stranger than fiction," it was found in the enchanting spectacle of Festival Hall, the Colonnades of States and…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
Japan was one of the first nations to complete its exhibition in the Palace of Varied Industries.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
An entire mile of streets lined on both sides with places of amusement, all of high class and instructive, more elaborate and costly than have ever…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
The concession "Tyrolean Alps" was the most popular among all the amusement resorts on the Pike.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
Something new in architecture - totally different from every accustomed style, but certainly pleasing to the eye, was the Austrian Pavilion,…
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
Within a modern Italian garden, enclosed in a high wall, stood the Italian Pavilion, a structure in the Graeco-Roman style of the times of Augustus.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair
Of Spanish Mission Architecture, the New Mexico State Building stood on Constitution Avenue.