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1904 World's Fair Slideshow
with Music
The 120th Anniversary of the St. Louis World's Fair April 30, 2024
for Schools, Libraries, Scouts, History Museum and Societies, Hospital Auxilaries and Church Program
See zoomable Presentation: http://prezi.com/wh7f015gwr8h/louisiana-purchase-exposition/
by Karl M. Kindt III
kkindt@earthlink.net
https://sites.google.com/site/1904scrapbook
CLICK HERE to see 3,000 images of the Fair
314 308 7075
A slideshow program for all ages that I bring to the public, private schools, libraries and scout groups. It is a lively fun program with lots of good history presented. Time travel then and now photography will show what is here now and then fade back in time to what was there 120 years ago.
This scene depicts what "Art Hill" looked like in 1904. The huge building at the top of the hill hides the Art Museum which is dwarfed by its size. This building housed the world's largest pipe organ - an organ that is still the world's largest - but was moved from St. Louis to Philadelphia where you may still hear it played at a large department store there.
Music from the 1904 Fair is also a part of this amazing slideshow presentation and students and families learn about an experience like none other.
I also bring items that are from the World's Fair and a World's Fair scrapbook. And most awesome, movies were made of some part of the Fair in 1904 using Thomas Edison's new invention and some short movie clips will be shown in the presentation.
Examples of the movies made back in 1904:
The scene to the left is just one of the hundreds of slides shown during the presentation and shown in 2d and 3d.
For more information call 314 308 7075 to talk to Karl who is is a retired instructor of Webster University and currently teaching at Southwestern Illinois College. The Missouri History Museum asked Karl to digitize over 400 of the 8x10 glass plate negatives taken at the 1904 World's Fair and many of these are used in the presentation.