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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.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
The view shown here is looking east from the Observation Wheel.
1904 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
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
At the right is the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy, and beyond it is the splendid Palace of Liberal Arts.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
The Palace of Mines and Metallurgy represented an entirely original architecture. It covered nine acres and cost nearly $500,000 to build.
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Palace of Varied Industries
1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Japan was one of the first nations to complete its exhibition in the Palace of Varied Industries.