Louisiana at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition of 1904
January 2003 marks the beginning of the year-long celebration of the Bicentennial of the
Louisiana Purchase. Next month NOPL's contribution to the celebration, an exhibit titled "A Great and
Growing City": New Orleans in the Era of the Louisiana Purchase, will open in the Louisiana Division
of
the Main Library (and here in NUTRIAS). Meanwhile, we kick off the festivities by presenting several images
showing Louisiana's participation in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904, the great world's
fair which had as its focal point and raison d'être the celebration of the Centennial of the
Purchase. The images are taken from two sources contemporary to the St. Louis fair: Louisiana at
Louisiana Purchase
Exposition: Report of the Louisiana Board of Commissioners to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Held at
St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, published in New Orleans circa 1905; and Louisiana and
the Fair: An Exposition of the World and Its People and Their Achievements, edited by J.W. Buel and
published in ten volumes in St. Louis in 1905.
