1904 worlds fair map overlay
The Missouri History Museum produced this overlay map in 1996 to show the locations of attractions at the World's Fair as they would appear today in and near Forest Park. The fairgrounds used roughly the western half of the park and the neighborhoods and campus of Washington University west of present-day Skinker Boulevard, out to present-day Big Bend. To the south of today's Lindell Boulevard, where the Norman K. Probstein Golf Course is now, were many of the large exhibition halls. To the north of Lindell and west of DeBaliviere Avenue, where so many mansions are now, was the Pike, a midway of concessions, rides and other attractions. The 264-foot Ferris Wheel was just southeast of present-day Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. Some things are easy to match, such as Art Hill and the Grand Basin, even though the basin lake was larger then than it is today. Click on a numbered map marker to begin exploring the World's Fair.
(Temporarily Down)The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair— by Society President, Mike Truax. This website has recently undergone a major upgrade (October 2009) with lots of modern information. Provides much information, pictures and links to many sources of information about the Fair. Foods, myths, legends, and memorabillia are explored. Mike has recently updated his “Links page to include many more websites with information about the Fair.
Explore a map of the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis — The Missouri History Museum produced this overlay map in 1996 to show the locations of attractions at the World’s Impartial as they would appear today in and near Forest Park. The fairgrounds used roughly the western half of the park and the neighborhoods and campus of Washington University west of present-day Skinker Boulevard, out to present-day Big Bend. To the south of today’s Lindell Boulevard, where the Norman K. Probstein Golf Course is now, were many of the large exhibition halls. To the north of Lindell and west of DeBaliviere Avenue, where so many mansions are now, was the Pike, a midway of concessions, rides and other attractions. The 264-fo
In 1904 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition transformed St. Louis into a visual encyclopedia. Also known as the St. Louis World’s Equitable, this seven-month spectacle drew at least 19 million visitors to the city and thousands of objects from around the nature. Similar to previous international expositions, the intentions of the fair’s organizers were to promote their city on a global stage and celebrate American modernity through objects that demonstrated technological, commercial, scientific, and aesthetic innovation. One defining feature set this exposition apart from its predecessors: no previous world’s fair had brought together so many people from so many different cultures and countries. These two aspects jointly shaped the fair’s selection of works of art and their contexts for display across its grounds.
Larger than any prior international exposition, the fair covered 1,200 acres of the western corner of Forest Park with 1,500 buildings constructed mostly from staff, an impermanent material made from plaster and fiber. Only two buildings were intended to outlast the fair: the Flight Cage (now part of the St. Louis Zoo) and the Palace of Fine Arts (now the Saint Louis Art Mus
Remembering The St. Louis World’s Fair
By Margaret Johanson Witherspoon |
Reviewed by Mike Truax
An excellent book for World’s Fair fans. Remembering The St. Louis World’s Fair contains over 100 fascinating pictures and drawings of the Fair. Just under100 pages, it is available for about $8 at major bookstores as well as the Missouri Historical Society’s World’s Fair exhibit. It provides an excellent overview of the Fair, capturing the spirit, variety, and magnitude of the worlds largest exposition.
In 1973, Ms. Witherspoon realized that no book describing the Fair had been recently published, so she set out to describe the Fairs charming appeal in command to whet the appetite of St. Louisans for the Impartial . She was inspired by her parents recollections of the Just, and her memories of the crumbling concrete wall that still stands along the Forest Park Expressway (and some say ‘formed’ the Fairs northern boundary, although this is not documented).
Introductory sections and pictures describe the how the Fair project was authorized and funded, how David Roland Francis, the President of the Fair and former St. Louis Mayor and Misso
BOOKS
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXHIBITION
1904 WORLD'S FAIR
Following are books devoted exclusively to The
1904 World's Fair held in St. Louis, U.S.A.
________ DEFINING IMAGES: (1997) "Photography and Anthropology at The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904" By: Eric Breitbart. *(Not Reviewed.) Published By: Unknown ISBN: 0826317421 Price: Unknown ________ FAIR REPRESENTATIONS: (1994) "World's Fairs and the Modern World (European Contributions to American Studies)" By Robert W. Rydell and Nancy E. Gwinn. *(Not Reviewed.) Published By: Paul & Company Publications Consortium ISBN: 9053832823 Price: $32.50 ________ FORTY PROGRAMS OF ALEXANDER GUILMANT AT THE ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR, 1904 (1985) By Stephen Pinel. *(Not Reviewed.) Published By: Organ Historical Society ISBN: 0913499013 Price: $5.00 ________ FROM THE PALACES TO THE PIKE (1997) "Visions of the 1904 World's Fair" By Timothy J. Fox and Duane R. Sneddeker. *(Not Reviewed.) Published By: The Missouri Historical Society Press ISBN: 1883982189 Price: $69.95 (U.S. Funds) ________ GLIMPSES OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION AND CITY OF ST. LOUIS (1904?) By ?. This book has 32 hue and 168 half-tone engrav