Quarto album with paper covers, and remnants of a leather spine, containing 97 photographs of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, each marked lower right in the negative, Copyright 1904/ Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., 7.5 x 9.25 in., mounted one per page. In 1904, the city of St. Louis was host to an exposition held to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, and this fabulous album documents various exhibits, peoples, buildings, and statues featured at the exposition. The highlight of the album is a portrait of Geronimo, which is credited to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., but was produced by Charles Henry Carpenter, a chief photographer of the Field Museum from 1899 until he retired in 1947. Carpenter traveled the Hopi reservations, and in 1904, photographed at the St. Louis World's Fair, where he made over 3,000 negatives of many Indian tribes including portraits such as this of Geronimo and notable Pacific Northwest Coast natives. There were over forty-seven acres of exhibits of Philippine and Native American tribes including Pawnee, Pueblo, Pima, Pomo, Kwakiutl, Eskimo, Oglala and Rosebud Sioux who recreated ceremonies and lived in native habitats on the Fairgrounds. The album includes several views of native peoples within their habitats, some posed together, or in the act of cooking, trading, or participating in ceremonies. Views of Cairo, Japan, and the Tyrolean Alps Village are also included. The album features photographs of the classically inspired buildings constructed for the exposition, such as Festival Hall, the Palace of Agriculture and the Great Floral Clock, and the Palaces of Education, Electricity, Manufacture, and Varied Industries, as well as impressive views of the waterways and gardens. Over 40 photographs of individual sculptures and statuary, ranging from allegorical figures to historical leaders such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin are also included in this exciting album, which truly brings the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to life. Condition: Some light, even toning to the photographs; overall, album's interior in very good condition; remnants of leather spine indicates that this might have been bound in leather at one point, but the rest of the binding is no longer present.
Quarto album with paper covers, and remnants of a leather spine, containing 97 photographs of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, each marked lower right in the negative, Copyright 1904/ Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., 7.5 x 9.25 in., mounted one per page. In 1904, the city of St. Louis was host to an exposition held to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, and this fabulous album documents various exhibits, peoples, buildings, and statues featured at the exposition. The highlight of the album is a portrait of Geronimo, which is credited to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., but was produced by Charles Henry Carpenter, a chief photographer of the Field Museum from 1899 until he retired in 1947. Carpenter traveled the Hopi reservations, and in 1904, photographed at the St. Louis World's Fair, where he made over 3,000 negatives of many Indian tribes including portraits such as this of Geronimo and notable Pacific Northwest Coast natives. There were over forty-seven acres of exhibits of Philippine and Native American tribes including Pawnee, Pueblo, Pima, Pomo, Kwakiutl, Eskimo, Oglala and Rosebud Sioux who recreated ceremonies and lived in native habitats on the Fairgrounds. The album includes several views of native peoples within their habitats, some posed together, or in the act of cooking, trading, or participating in ceremonies. Views of Cairo, Japan, and the Tyrolean Alps Village are also included. The album features photographs of the classically inspired buildings constructed for the exposition, such as Festival Hall, the Palace of Agriculture and the Great Floral Clock, and the Palaces of Education, Electricity, Manufacture, and Varied Industries, as well as impressive views of the waterways and gardens. Over 40 photographs of individual sculptures and statuary, ranging from allegorical figures to historical leaders such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin are also included in this exciting album, which truly brings the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to life. Condition: Some light, even toning to the photographs; overall, album's interior in very good condition; remnants of leather spine indicates that this might have been bound in leather at one point, but the rest of the binding is no longer present.
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