Louisiana Purchase Exposition Souvenir Pillow, Cascades
date: label: Date made
content: 1904
label: associated dates
content: 1904 04 30 / 1904 04 30, 1904 12 01 / 1904 12 01
notes: label: Description
content: Souvenir pillow commemorating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Inscribed "WORLD'S FAIR [/] ST LOUIS [/] 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 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 “world’s largest" pipe organ played to daily crowds of up 4,500 people at “Festival Hall,” the Exposition's signature architectural landmark. The Hall was fronted by “The Cascades,” an impressive water feature that flowed from the building into a “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: 1989.0438.1098
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0438.1098
label: accession number
content: 1989.0438
label: catalog number
content: 1904T02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pillow
label: Other Terms
content: Pillow; Commemorative
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: feather stuffing (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: orange, reddish (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23 in x 23 in; 58.42 cm x 58.42 cm