The Saint Louis World's Fair of 1904: In Commemoration of the Acquisition of the Louisiana Territory; a Handbook of General Information, Profusely Illustrated |
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Page 18 - An Act to provide for celebrating the four hund-redth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding' an International Exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures and the products of the soil, mine and sea, in the City of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,
Page 51 - Stoller is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Institute of Radio Engineers, the American Geophysical Union, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
Page 44 - He was a member of the International Jury of Awards at the Paris Exposition (1889), and was then made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
Page 39 - ... PALACE. WORLD'S FAIR. ST. LOUIS, 1904. CASS GILBERT, ARCHITECT. factures and Liberal Arts, lies in the fact that in the former art must be the predominating feature and the object must be the original work of the artist and not a reproduction by another hand or the result of any mechanical process. Special galleries will be provided for the installation of models of buildings, sculptural decorations, mural paintings, wood carvings, pyrographic designs, mosaics, leaded and mosaic glass, etc.,...
Page 78 - DEPARTMENT OF SCULPTURE. KARL TF BITTER, Chief. The appropriation for this department is half a million dollars, of which about $100,000 is for permanent work. The general scheme is designed to symbolize the history, local color and allegory of the Louisiana Territory by representing the four successive occupants of the soil: First, the wild animals; >econd, the Indians; third, the discoverers and pioneers, and fourth, the advanced races — French, Spanish and American — which have built up its...
Page 44 - The long facade, especially, shows a magnificent entrance, which is almost pure Corinthian. Here is what the architects say of their structure : — " The style of architecture is a severe treatment of the French Renaissance for the exterior facades. In fact, the treatment embodies rather a feeling of the classic than of the Renaissance. It has been the endeavor of the architects to depend largely on sculpture in the decoration of the building, refraining from the over-use of stereotyped architectural...
Page 77 - Said l>oard of lady managers may, in the discretion of said commission and corporation, appoint one member of all committees authorized to award prizes for such exhibits as may have been produced in whole or in part by female labor.
Page 37 - Exposition authorities adopted a classification in which is involved a recognition of the fact that there should be no distinction between what commonly has been considered as "fine art" and that which has been termed "industrial art.
Page 77 - John Miller Horton. Buffalo, N Y. ; Mrs. AL Von Mayhoff, New- York City; Mrs. James Edmund Sullivan, Providence, RI; Mrs. Annie McLean Moores, Mount Pleasant, Tex.; Mi
Page 6 - In 1876, and later was given a Master's degree. For three years he was a student at the National Academy of Design, New York, later was connected for several years with the New York Tribune, for nine years was editor of National Academy Notes, and In 1884 edited the Art Union Magazine. From 1883 to 1886, inclusive, he was Director of the Art Department of the Southern Exposition, at Louisville, Ky. In 1889 he became art editor of the...