World's Fair, St. Louis: The great ferris wheel – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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World's Fair, St. Louis: The great ferris wheel
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Tall enough to dominate the skyline, the great Ferris wheel was one of the marquee attractions of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, the world's fair that drew millions of visitors to the city that year. Stereograph cards like this one were made to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the wheel and the crowds below a sense of depth and three-dimensional presence. Carried home by fairgoers and sold in souvenir sets, such cards turned the exposition's spectacle into a keepsake of the fair's grand scale and its modern machinery.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by The American Stereoscopic Co. cf. America's Yesterdays, p. 324. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Ferris wheels; U.S. Hist.--1898--War with Spain; South African War, 1899-1902; Navy, U.S.; Theater--Specialty acts; Exhibitions--1904. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,374 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138353 |
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