A world on display : photographs from the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904 / Eric Breitbart.

Main entry:

Breitbart, Eric.

Title & Author:

A world on display : photographs from the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904 / Eric Breitbart.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 108 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-104) and index.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition : image and authenticity -- The Philippine reservation -- Ainu and pygmy -- Indians on display.

Summary:

In the spring and summer of 1904, St. Louis hosted a world's fair to commemorate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. In addition to offering a grand exposition of America's economic and artistic resources, the fair's organizers brought some 2,000 native people to St. Louis to take part in the most extensive anthropological exhibits ever assembled for a world's fair. The author has assembled seventy-five photographs of these "living exhibits" and explores what the photographs represented when they were made, how they were used and what significance they hold for viewers today. In other words, this is a book about the meaning of photographs.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0826317421
9780826317421

Subject:

Saint Louis (Mo.) Weltausstellung (1904)
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) Pictorial works.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Weltausstellung 1904 Saint Louis, Mo.
Photography in ethnology History 20th century.
Indigenous peoples Pictorial works.
Photographie en ethnologie Histoire 20e siècle.
Indigenous peoples
Photography in ethnology
Bildband
Ethnologie
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 Saint Louis, Mo.) Pictorial works

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193535
Call No.: T860.B7 (ID:97-B4586)
Status: Available

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