Louisiana Purchase Exposition Souvenir Coin, Palace of Mines and Metallurgy/ Palace of Machinery
date: label: Date made
content: 1904
notes: label: Description
content: Souvenir coin commemorating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1904. Coin has an image of the Fair's Palace of Mines and Metallurgy on one side and of the Palace of Machinery on the other.
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 Palace of Mines and Metallurgy provided models of mine operations as well as extracted materials and examples of products made from them. In addition to displays of mechanical technology, the Machinery Building served as home to Fair's massive electrical generator, made by General Electric.
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
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair 1939-1940
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0542.1779.04
label: accession number
content: 1990.0542
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coin
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 mm; x 1 3/8 in