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Glimpses of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition & St. Louis 1904 World's Fair

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GLIMPSES OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPEDITION AND THE FAMOUS PIKE
200 Scenes In colors - A scenic panorama of beauty and art.
Published by
Laird & Lee, Chicago, 1904
Very good softcover album with rubbing and worn edges to cover with near fine internal photographs
Photographs from the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. The images show the entrance to the fair, Festival Hall, considered "the crowning feature and most photographed structure at the fair," the transportation building, and the Palace of Varied Industries. "Creation" exhibit which featured a sculpture "portraying the first 6 days in the Book of Genesis" which was later on display at Coney Island's Dreamland Park until a fire in 1911.