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Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
Created to help oversee the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, this federal commission left behind a detailed record of one of the biggest public events of its era. Its report is less a personal author profile than a window into how the exposition was funded, organized, and presented to the nation.
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Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
About the author
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission was a United States federal commission, not an individual writer. It was established under the March 3, 1901 act that provided for commemorating the centennial of the Louisiana Territory purchase by holding an international exposition in St. Louis.
Its best-known work is the 1906 Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, published by the Government Printing Office and transmitted through the Secretary of State to President Theodore Roosevelt and Congress. The report gathers official material on the exposition's planning, ceremonies, finances, and participating governments and states.
For readers today, the commission matters as a historical voice of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, better known as the St. Louis World’s Fair. Because this was a government body rather than a person, there is no personal life story to tell—and no true author portrait to use.