Unit 14: Come to the Fair
Technology at the 1904 World's Fair
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Possible Research Topics
- David Roland Francis
- Architecture
- St. Louis' Forest Park
- Washington University
- 1904 Olympic Games
- Forest Park
- Palace of Education
- Palace of Manufacturers
- Anthropology
- Motion Picture
- The South African Boer War
- Palace of Electricity
- Thomas Edison
- Tape Recorder
- X-ray
- The St. Louis Art Museum
- The Cascades
Resources
Bibliography
- Louisiana and the Fair: An Exposition of the World, Its People and Their Achievement
Buel, James
St. Louis Worlds Publishing Company
St. Louis, Mo.
1905 - Remembering the St. Louis World’s Fair
Witherspoon, Margaret Johnson
Folkestone Press
St. Louis, Mo.
1973. - The St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904: In Commemoration of the Acquisition of the Louisiana Territory
Kurtz, Charles M.
Gottschalk Printing Company
St. Louis, Mo.
1904
