JON PAUL SANK'S WORLD'S FAIRS PAGE
(1904)
- 1904 ST. LOUIS (BIE World Expo):
- Shortcuts: Websites | Video | Audio | Pics | Guides | Exhibits | Meet Me | Music | Food | Texts | Collections
- Websites, Pages:
- Video:
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Co, 1904 (silent, YouTube):
- Documentaries:
- That Fabulous Summer: The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (1962) (YouTube, TV documentary, 53m38s)
- The World's Greatest Fair (1h57m34s, at Tubi)
- The 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis (YouTube, 34m07s)
- World's Fair Film (KETC-9) (YouTube, television segment, 4m25s)
- Casper the Researcher: World's Fair St. Louis 1904 (YouTube):
- History of St. Louis During the World's Fair (KETC-9) (YouTube, television segment, 16m03s)
- 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Then and Now (YouTube, 11m18s)
- Deaf Newspaper: The 1904 World's Fair: Looking Back at Looking Forward (YouTube, documentary, in American Sign Language, 8m02s)
- The 1904 World's Fair and St. Louis (YouTube, 7m25s)
- The 1904 World's Fair (Missouri Historical Society) (YouTube, lecture, 56m21s)
- 1904 World's Fair Collection (museum video, 10m12s, at C-CPAN)
- Unit 14: Come to the Fair (YouTube, educational film, 10m12s)
- Kid Curator takes a trip to 1904 World's Fair at Missouri History Museum (YouTube, 1m39s)
- Home Documentaries:
- Audio:
- Pictures:
- Construction of the 1904 World's Fair (YouTube, pictures, silent, 7m02s)
- Samuel L. Cupples Hold to Light 1904 World's Fair Postcards (YouTube, pictures with music, 2m57s)
- Hearthside 1904 World's Fair (YouTube, pictures, silent, 5m10s)
- Stereograph Cards (at Library of Congress)
- View Books:
- The Official Photographic Views of the Universal Exposition (320pp, at Internet Archive)
- Sights, Scenes and Wonders at the World's Fair: Official Book of Views (125pp, at Internet Archive)
- Official Souvenir [of the] Louisiana Purchase Exposition (28pp, at Internet Archive)
- The Universal Exposition Beautifully Illustrated: Official Publication (94pp, at Internet Archive)
- The Greatest of Expositions Completely Illustrated (300pp, at Internet Archive)
- Views of St. Louis and the World's Fair booklet, 44p, at Hathi Trust)
- Jackson's Famous Photographs of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (204pp, at Internet Archive)
- The World's Fair at St. Louis: Beautiful Engravings (78pp, at Hathi Trust)
- Grandeur of the Universal Exposition at St. Louis: An Official Book of Beautiful Engravings (60pp, at Hathi Trust)
- Memories of the World's Greatest Exposition (66pp, at Internet Archive)
- The Forest City (498pp, at Internet Archive)
- World's Fair, Louisiana Purchase, St. Louis, 1904 (54pp, at Internet Archive)
- King's Booklets: Exposition at St. Louis (16pp, at Internet Archive)
- Ansichten von der Weltausstellung in St. Louis, mit dem Höchst Interessanten "Pike" (214pp, at Internet Archive)
- Coming Down the Pike (50pp, at Internet Archive)
- 1904 World's Fair Virtual Tour (at Collector's Marketing Resource Center)
- Photos of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (at The Atlantic)
- Categories at Wikimedia Commons:
- Guides, Maps, Catalogues:
- Official Guide to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (book, 211pp, at Internet Archive)
- World's Fair Manual: The Guide Book of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (book, 90pp, at Internet Archive)
- Sherlock's World's Fair Guide and Bureau of Information (book, 98pp, at Internet Archive)
- Laird & Lee's Standard Pocket Guide and Time-Saver (book, 139pp, at Internet Archive)
- The Piker and World's Fair Guide (book, 156pp, at Internet Archive)
- The World Almanac and Encyclopedia and Officially Compiled Guide to the LPE (book, 694pp, at Internet Archive)
- Handbook of Ready Reference, World's Fair St. Louis 1904 (booklet, 72pp, at Internet Archive)
- Daily Official Program (June 16) (booklet, 24pp, at Internet Archive)
- Official Directory of the LPE (book, 112pp, at Internet Archive)
- Ground Plan of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904 (JPG, map, 8999x5499, at Big Map Blog)
- Maps at Library of Congress:
- Official Catalogue of Exhibitors, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A. (book, 1,852pp, at Internet Archive)
- Exhibits, Pavilions, Shows:
- Agriculture:
- Alaska
- Anthropology:
- The Unfair Fair: Prejudice on the Pike (YouTube, pictures and text with music, 8m21s)
- Ota Benga (pictures, at Wikimedia Commons)
- Department of Anthropology (pictures, at Wikimedia Commons)
- Anthropology at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Science, December 22, 1905) (article, at Internet Archive)
- Listen: Bought in a Slave Auction, Displayed as Evolutionary "Science" (article, with audio and video, at Evolution News and Science Today)
- Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World's Fair (article, at The New Inquiry)
- Borden:
- Brazil:
- Burns Cottage Association:
- China
- Columbia Phonograph Company:
- Connecticut Building:
- Dedication (April 30-May 2, 1903):
- DeForest Wireless Telegraphy Tower (at Early Radio History):
- Distinguished Visitors:
- Ferris Wheel
- Festival Hall Organ
- Fisheries
- Forest Insects Exhibit
- Indiana
- International Sunday Rest Congress
- Japan:
- Kiralfy's Louisiana Purchase Spectacle:
- Libbey Glass Company:
- Mysterious Asia
- National Bureau of Standards Exhibit:
- Naval Battle
- New Jersey
- New Zealand:
- North Dakota:
- Opening Day (April 30):
- Pan-Slav and Journalistic Conference:
- Parades:
- Pennsylvania:
- Pennsylvania Railroad:
- Persia:
- Philippines Exposition
- Filipino Scouts. Musical Drill. St. Louis (American Mutoscope and Biograph, 1904) (YouTube, silent, 1m56s)
- St. Louis Expo 1904: Philippine Exposition (YouTube, pictures with captions and music, 4m12s)
- Little Manila Community Showcase 2015: 1904 St Louis World's Fair (YouTube, documentary, 3m48s)
- Souvenir of the Philippine Exposition (book, 96pp, at Internet Archive)
- Report of the Philippine Exposition Board (book, 147pp, at Internet Archive)
- Souvenir: Igorot Village (booklet, includes disturbing images, 20pp, at Hathi Trust)
- "Savages" in the White House and the 1904 World's Fair (article, at Theodore Roosevelt Center, Dickinson State University)
- Un-fair design (article, at Mindanao Times)
- Photography:
- Pike
- Rhode Island
- Sculpture:
- Siam:
- Special Days:
- Stuttgarter Möbelfabrik
- Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games: Football: Carlisle Indians vs. Haskell Indians, President's Day, November 26, 1904: Daily Official Program (4pp, at Internet Archive)
- Federico Buffa Racconta: Olimpiadi Saint Louis 1904, Sport e Partecipanti (YouTube, documentary, 3m14s)
- Events
- Medal Winners
- Sportspeople
- The craziest Olympic marathon of all time (article, at Running Magazine)
- Der skurrile Marathon von 1904 (article, at Sport ORF)
- St. Louis Olympics was really World's Fair with some sports (article, at WSLS-10)
- Tiffany and Co.:
- United States
- University of Missouri:
- Westinghouse:
- World's Fair Handicap:
- Meet Me in St. Louis (YouTube):
- Story (movie, TV, radio, stage):
- Warner Archive (YouTube, movie scenes, 1944):
- Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien - Under The Bamboo Tree (Meet Me In St. Louis, 1944) (YouTube, movie scene, 2m08s)
- The Making of Meet Me in St. Louis (thejudyroom.com/louis.html)
- TCM Comments on Meet Me in St. Louis (YouTube, TV segment, 5m40s)
- General Electric Theater (1959) (YouTube, TV production, 1h58m52)
- TV Series, Unsold Pilot (Shelly Fabares, Celeste Holm, 1966) (22m33s)
- Lux Radio Theatre (1946) (MP3, 59m40s, at Internet Archive)
- Hewitt Trussville High School (2016) (1h53m53s)
- Northpointe Christian High School (2016) (2h02m06s)
- Music:
- The Song (Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis, by Andrew B. Sterling and Kerry Mills):
- Other Music:
- Music at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (slide show, at Prezi)
- Official World's Fair March (J. Fred De Berry) (score for piano, at Washington University St. Louis)
- Hymn [of] the West (John Knowles Paine) (National Gallery Orchestra under Richard Bales) (YouTube, audio, 5m37s)
- St. Louis Souvenir March (Alfonzo Hart) (audio, 2m42, with description, at Rag Piano)
- The Cascades: A Rag (Scott Joplin) (YouTube, audio with follow-along score, 2m56s)
- Charley's Dream of the Fair (YouTube, audio with sheet music, 4m16s)
- St. Louis Rag (Tom Turpin):
- Pryor's Orchestra (1904) (audio, 2m23s, at Library of Congress)
- Chris Chapman, xylophone, with orchestra (1906) (audio, 2m01s, at Library of Congress)
- Tom Brier, piano (YouTube, music performance, 2m15s)
- The St. Louis Rag (sheet music, 6pp, at Library of Congress)
- St Louis Tickle (Theron C. Bennett):
- Music of the 1904 Era (MIDI files at WashingtonMO)
- Hohner 1904 World's Fair Accordion (YouTube, instrument demonstration, 2m05s)
- "Wanamaker Organ playlist" (search results, at YouTube)
- Sheet Music (at Internet Archive):
- Sheet Music from the 1904 World's Fair Collection (collection, at Washington University in St. Louis)
- Food:
- Texts:
- Books:
- World's Fair Souvenir of the Engineers Club of St. Louis (book, 185pp, at Internet Archive)
- Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition (book, 312pp, at Internet Archive)
- Uncle Jeremiah and His Neighbors at the St. Louis Exposition (book, 332pp, at Internet Archive)
- The St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, in Commemoration of the Acquisition of the Louisiana Territory (1903) (book, 84pp, at Internet Archive)
- Louisiana and the Fair, by J W Buel (books at Hathi Trust):
- A Trip Around the Main Picture and Through the Plateau of States (The Cable Company) (booklet, 42pp, at Internet Archive)
- Pictorial History of the Louisiana Purchase and the World's Fair at St. Louis (book, 496pp, at Internet Archive)
- Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (book, 551pp, at Internet Archive)
- Lousiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 (Union Pacific: The Overland Route) (booklet, 50pp, at Internet Archive)
- The World's Fair City, 1904: The New St. Louis (booklet, 52pp, at Internet Archive)
- Magazines:
- Scientific American, Vol. 90 No. 19 (May 7, 1904) (24pp, at Internet Archive)
- The World's Work (August 1904): The World's Fair at St. Louis (384pp, at Hathi Trust)
- The Cosmopolitan, Volume 37 (1904 May-Oct.) (magazine volume, with 25 articles about the fair, at Hathi Trust)
- World's Fair at St. Louis (booklet, 40pp, at Internet Archive)
- Annual Supplement to the Labor Compendium: The Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition (book, 104pp, at Internet Archive)
- Articles:
- Poetry:
- Collections, Archives:
Sub-Page Last Modified April 2, 2023