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The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million (equivalent to $509 million in 2023) [ 1 ] were used to finance the event.
In 1904, over 1,100 Filipinos were displayed at the St. Louis World's Fair in association with the 1904 Summer Olympics. Following the Spanish-American War, the United States had just acquired new territories such as Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. [31] The organizers of the World's Fair held "Anthropology Days" on August 12
Alfred Tennyson Beals. . . (m. 1897) . Jessie Tarbox Beals with John Burroughs, 1908. Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She is best known for her freelance news photographs, particularly ...
The Philippine Constabulary Band was the lead unit in the United States presidential inaugural parade of 1909, which saw its former patron William Howard Taft inaugurated as president of the United States. It was the first time a band other than the United States Marine Band served as the musical escort to the president of the United States.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos Getty/Public DomainAs the Tokyo 2020 (or 2021) Summer Games finally get underway, it often seems like they have faced challenges unlike any other ...
Promoter Richard Norris advertised bullfights on June 5, 1904, capitalizing the spirit of the World's Fair. He built an eponymous 16,000 seat arena, and contracted Spanish bullfighter Manuel Cervera Prieto and 35 others. [1] Norris sold more than 8,000 $1 tickets. [1] Bullfighting was illegal in the United States and the state of Missouri. [2]
The Saint Louis Exposition or St. Louis Expo was a series of annual agricultural and technical fairs held in St. Louis' Fairgrounds Park, from the 1850s to 1902. In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a major World's Fair, was held in St. Louis, Missouri. The annual agricultural/technical exposition was not held in 1903-4, and ceased after ...
Jim Key at the 1904 World's Fair. Beautiful Jim Key was a famous performing horse around the turn of the twentieth century. [1] His promoters claimed that the horse could read and write, make change with money, do arithmetic for "numbers below thirty," [2] and cite Bible passages "where the horse is mentioned."