Louisiana Purchase Exposition: The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (Collection)

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The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, commonly known as the Saint Louis World's Fair of 1904, was the last great international exposition before the Great War of 1914. The fair, built on a 1,200 acre site, was conceived on a gigantic scale. It included hundreds of thousands of objects, people, animals, displays, and publications from 62 exhibiting countries and 43 of the 45 states. The setting of world's records, such as the largest organ, and working displays of every important technological advance were significant design goals. It was no accident that the 11-volume set, Louisiana and the Fair; an exposition of the world, its people and their achievements (included here) was published by the World's Progress Publishing Co. The Fair itself was a combination of trade show, civic showpiece, monument to cultural self-consciousness and boosterism, along with more than a tinge of American exceptionalism. It betrays the grandiose ambition of the gilded age, forming a kind of collective utterance encompassing the nineteenth century's paean to international understanding in the furtherance of peace, prosperity, and progress. It's a grand snapshot in time of American and foreign societies as they wished to portray themselves.
The documents here are intended to complement existing Internet collections and to further scholarly research and serious inquiry. They are from the collections of the University of Missouri Libraries and University Archives and were selected because they were not yet available on the Internet. Perhaps the most important of these is Mark Bennett's History of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The diversity of subjects is huge: veterinary practice, the famous artist Max Klinger, and poverty and relief efforts in Leipzig - and this just from Germany. The Committee on Digitization Initiatives of the MU Libraries hopes that these resources will be useful to the people of the State of Missouri and beyond, and we welcome any comments or questions.
The digitization in 2010 of the resources in this collection was supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
MU ID: mu:5211.

: Amtlicher Bericht über die Weltausstellung in Saint Louis 1904; Title vignette, head and tail pieces, illuminated initials., Contents: Die Teilnehmer an dem Internationalen Kongress für Kunst und Wissenschaft (p. 159-171) -- Luftschiffahrt (p. [386]-388)

: Artistic views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 (Collection); 25 color plates

: Assembly : in honor of a delegation of distinguished visitors from the World's Fair International Congress of Arts and Sciences \u2026

: Dedication ceremonies, St. Louis, U.S.A., April 30th and May 1st-2nd, 1903.

: Dinner given in honor of the Missouri World's Fair Commissioners; Walter Williams's copy, with 32 autographs including his., In case with title: New Missouri book.

: Handbook on the minerals and mineral resources of Virginia

: History of the Louisiana purchase exposition; By Mark Bennitt, editor-in-chief ... Frank Parker Stockbridge, managing editor ... with an introduction by Walter B. Stevens ... Illustrated under direction of Edgar M. Dilley with more than four thousand engravings.

: Illustrations of selected works in the various national sections of the Department of art; With an introduction by Halsey C. Ives ... descriptive text for paintings by Charles M. Kurtz ... descriptive text for sculpture by George Julian Zolnay.

: International Exhibition Saint Louis, 1904.; Issued by the Royal Commission. Includes indexes.

: Leipzig im Jahre 1904

: Manual of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, World's Fair, Saint Louis, 1904

: New method in agricultural education.

: Official catalogue of exhibitors; United States -- Argentine -- Austria -- Belgium -- Brazil -- Bulgaria -- Canada -- Cuba -- France -- Germany -- Great Britain -- Holland -- Hungary -- International. Ceylon, Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland -- Italy -- Japan -- Mexico -- Portugal -- Russia -- Sweden., Complete title and subtitle: Official catalogue of exhibitors : Universal Exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A. 1904 : Division of Exhibits, ... Department B, Art, Halsey C. Ives, Chief.

: Opening ceremonies of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A., April 30th, 1904; The addresses by prominent personages and the ceremonies of the opening day witnessed by the largest attendance of people in the history of World's Fairs.

: Photographs illustrating the laboratories of the Department of Botany, University of Missouri; Photographs with captions.

: Proceedings of the World's Press Parliament held at the Universal Exposition, Saint Louis, U.S.A., May 19, 20, 21, 1904

: Relatorio apresentado ao exm. sr. Lauro Severiano Müller, ministro da industria, viação e obras publicas

: Report of industrial exhibits of the Philippines schools at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

: Report of the Nebraska State Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Missouri, 1904

: Report to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

: Saint Louis world's fair of 1904

: The true and complete story of the Pike and its attractions, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.

: Univerity of Missouri : [photographs]

: Univerity of Missouri College of Agriculture : [photographs]

: Univerity of Missouri Entymology, Horticulure : [photographs]; Photographs with captions.

: Univerity of Missouri School of Engineering : [photographs]

: Univerity of Missouri physical culture : [photographs]

: Universal exposition of 1904; [I] Inception and development. Pre-exposition. Exposition. The exhibits. Concessions and utilities.-[II] Conclusions. Financial statement, 1901-1913. Illustrations. Appendices., Complete title and subtitle: Universal exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A., 1904 : prize-list and rules and regulations (Preliminary) ; for the government of and the awarding of prizes in the Department of Live Stock, with conditions of entry, quarantine and customs requirements relative to foreign animals, etc. Issued August, 1903.