Official universal exposition photo-gravures
A photo-gravure album published in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904 by the Official Photographic Company, documenting the Louisiana Purchase Exposition for visitors and buyers of souvenir views. The pictures are sepia architectural views of the fair's white neoclassical palaces, colonnades, and reflecting basins, with formal walkways and figure groups, useful for designers seeking Beaux-Arts grandeur, monumental symmetry, and early twentieth-century exposition styling.
