World's Fairs, Museums, Theme Parks, Living History, and More: Education With a Deliciously Creative Flair!

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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David R. Francis, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company President

Addressing the Opening Day crowd, April 30, 1904

"So thoroughly does it represent the world's civilizations, that if all man's other works were by some unspeakable catastrophe blotted out, the records here established by the assembled nations would afford all necessary standards for the rebuilding of our civilization."