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Publisher
Keystone View Company
(American (active Meadville, PA), 1892 – 1963)
Date1904
MediumGelatin silver print mounted on cardstock
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/2 × 7 1/8 in. (8.9 × 18.1 cm)
Credit LineRuth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College
Object numberS2024.4.1
Not on view
DescriptionPirated stereograph depicting the main entrance of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Recto, left margin (printed script): "Keystone View Company, / Manufacturers & Publishers, Copyright 1904 by B.L. Singley"
Recto, right margin (printed script): "Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., San Francisco, Ca., / Toronto, Can., New York, NY., London, England."
Recto, bottom margin (printed): "15041- Main Entrance, "The Alps" in the Distance. Louisi- / ana Purchase Exposition, St., Louis, Mo., U.S.A."
Verso, center (printed): "Once every week, usually on Monday, children are / admitted free to the World's Fair. This view taken / on such a day shows throngs of boys and girls scat- / tering in every direction from the main entrance. / As many as 35,000 attend the Fair on each free day. / A part of the main entrance is shown on the / right. In the background are the snowy peaks of / the Tyolean Alps rising behind the quaint build- / ings of the Tyorlese village. / The stockade surrounding the village is shown at / the bottom of the picture and near it appears a part / of the roof of a native bamboo hut. / The great building in the distance is a portion of / the Palace of Agriculture (See 15043) - the largest / exhibit building ever built, having an area of 24 acres. / Copyright 1904 by Keystone View Company."
Recto, right margin (printed script): "Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., San Francisco, Ca., / Toronto, Can., New York, NY., London, England."
Recto, bottom margin (printed): "15041- Main Entrance, "The Alps" in the Distance. Louisi- / ana Purchase Exposition, St., Louis, Mo., U.S.A."
Verso, center (printed): "Once every week, usually on Monday, children are / admitted free to the World's Fair. This view taken / on such a day shows throngs of boys and girls scat- / tering in every direction from the main entrance. / As many as 35,000 attend the Fair on each free day. / A part of the main entrance is shown on the / right. In the background are the snowy peaks of / the Tyolean Alps rising behind the quaint build- / ings of the Tyorlese village. / The stockade surrounding the village is shown at / the bottom of the picture and near it appears a part / of the roof of a native bamboo hut. / The great building in the distance is a portion of / the Palace of Agriculture (See 15043) - the largest / exhibit building ever built, having an area of 24 acres. / Copyright 1904 by Keystone View Company."
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