Louisiana Purchase Exposition Souvenir Sound Recording Container
date: label: Date made
content: 1904
name: label: maker
content: Columbia Phonograph Company
notes: label: Description
content: Box containing a brown paraffin wax two-minute cylinder recording. The voices of "Ruby" and "Preston (donor's Mother and Uncle) were recorded at the Louisiana Purchase International Exposition, held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Recordings such as this were made by the Columbia Phonograph Company as souvenirs of the Fair.
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: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: Subject
content: Expositions and Fairs
label: related event
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Comdr. C. E. Siegman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0021.02.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0021
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0021.02.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Container, Box
label: Object Name
content: container
label: Object Name
content: container, sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 6.6675 cm