Sylph-like forms in the sculptor's marble, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A. – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this stereograph of Sylph-like forms in the sculptor's marble, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sylph-like forms in the sculptor's marble, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.
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Rising in pale marble, the slender figures named in the title are the focus of this stereograph rather than the visitors who passed beneath them. The view comes from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the 1904 world's fair held in St. Louis to mark the 1803 land deal that nearly doubled the nation's size. Sculpture was a prominent feature of the fairgrounds in Forest Park, and the decorative and monumental pieces there were meant to show the fair's ambitions. Printed as a stereograph, the scene was designed to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the white forms a sense of depth and solidity.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H56853 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1905 by C.L. Wasson"" |
| Subjects | Louisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.) Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. Sculpture--Missouri--Saint Louis--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 729 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168440 |
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