Louisiana Purchase Exposition Souvenir statuette, Show Me I'm From Missouri
date: label: Date made
content: 1904
notes: label: Description
content: Souvenir statuette of a donkey or mule commemorating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Around base is inscription, "WORLD'S FAIR ST. LOUIS 1904 [/] SHOW ME I'M FROM MISSOURI;" statuette of a braying mule on an oval shaped base.
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 as well as 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 mule has long been associated as a symbol of Missouri, and in 1995 was designated the state's official animal. Missouri's nickname is the "Show-Me-State".
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: Subject
content: Mules
label: related event
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1989.0438.1025
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0438.1025
label: accession number
content: 1989.0438
label: catalog number
content: 1904MD03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Statuette, Donkey
label: Object Name
content: statuette
label: Object Name
content: souvenir, statuette
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 3.81 cm x 5.715 cm