1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, World's Fair, St Louis, Missouri. 1904. With narration by myself. Most of the slideshow photos are high resolution scans of glass negatives in the public domain, sourced from the St Louis Public Library. Most of the narration is sourced from texts from the time of the expo, with the majority sourced from a souveneir book by/for the engineers. I focus more on the architecture and the construction than on the attractions themselves. I was fascinated by the effort to create such a vast spectacle, only to demolish it seven months later. I couldn't help but notice the lack of heavy machinery, power tools, cranes and so forth. Most of these structures were contructed using horse and wagon and scaffolding. Everything was brought in by train. Thinking how electricity was such a new thing, most people hadn't seen electricity in 1904. The amount of effort put forth by people all over the world to create this thing, its truly incredible.
Episode length. 30 minutes. 720p.