United States Universal Exposition Papers, [ca. 1904]

University of Texas.

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These slides were transferred to the Briscoe Center from the Harry Ransom Center in 2008. From the guide to the UT Color Slides Collection 2008-079., 1938-1965, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) These images were used for UT’s 75th Anniversary presentations in 1958. Many are copies of photographs in the Briscoe Center’s collections and are dated much earlier than the reproductions in this collection. From the guide to ...

Phillips, W. B. 1875-1918.

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Texas. World's Fair Commission, 1904.

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Celebrating the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, the United States Universal Exposition of 1904, also known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition or St. Louis World's Fair, covered two square miles of St. Louis, Missouri, and included over 200 buildings. Its enormous size and cost of $19.6 million were double that of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago ten years earlier. The event aspired to demonstrate the progress of the industrialization of Western nations, primar...