Sunken Garden

Boehl, Emil, 1839-1919

1904

picture

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Gardens

Saint Louis (Mo.)
Forest Park (Saint Louis, Mo.)

1900-1909

8x6 in photograph of the Sunken Garden at the 1904 World's Fair. The picture was taken from the Government Terrace (later Government Drive) looking north all the way to the distant towers of the Palace of Varied Industries. The buildings on the left are the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy with the obelisks flanking its entrance and the Palaces of Education and Social Economy. On the right is the Palace of Liberal Arts with its columns and ornate cornices and the Palace of Manufactures behind it.

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