Louisiana Purchase Exposition Souvenir Button, Festival Hall and Cascades
date: label: Date made
content: 1904
notes: label: Description
content: Souvenir button commemorating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Button features an image of the Fair's Festival Hall and Cascades.
label: Description
content: In 1904 a World’s Fair was held in St. Louis, Missouri to commemorate the 100th anniversary of “The Louisiana Purchase,” a land deal with the French that greatly expanded the boundaries of the United States. Between April and December, over 19.5 million visitors attended the Fair, hosted on a 1,270-acre site constructed at the city’s Forest Park and the Washington University campus. While the Exposition presented advances in technology and the arts and sciences, it is remembered today for its racist and dehumanizing displays of living foreign peoples. The Exposition also served as the site of the 1904 Olympic Games, the first ever held in the United States.
label: Description
content: The “world’s largest" pipe organ played to daily crowds of up 4,500 people at “Festival Hall,” the Louisiana Purchase Exposition signature architectural landmark. The building was fronted by “The Cascades,” an impressive water feature that flowed from the Hall into the Exposition’s “Grand Basin.. The Hall also featured a “Wooden Colonnade of States”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, St. Louis
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: Subject
content: Expositions and Fairs
label: related event
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Larry Zim World's Fair Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0438.0972
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0438.0972
label: accession number
content: 1989.0438
label: catalog number
content: 1904B03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button (Pinback)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in; x 3.175 cm