Post Your Exposition And World's Fair Tickets

Great continuing thread.

Thanks fellers. :-)

CelticKnot thank you for posting that. Makes me feel all squishy inside. LOL
Others have helped too. Thanks all!

1903 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Dedication Ceremonies Ticket

My long awaited ticket that has two great men pictured on the front. Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

On April 30, 1903, one hundred years to the day after the signing in Paris of the Louisiana Purchase agreement, President Theodore Roosevelt is in St Louis, Missouri, to dedicate the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which did not open until one year later. Roosevelt is visible in the center of the front row of a grandstand, which was also the speaker's platform.

The exposition opened on April 30, 1904, and continued until December 1, 1904. It was the first world's fair to turn a profit. It featured the participation of 62 nations, 43 U.S. states, and the federal government. The fair comprised more than 1,500 individual buildings interconnected by 75 miles of roads and walkways. The infrastructure and buildings required three years to construct. A special exposition company was created for coordinating the process. Nearly the entire population of St. Louis was involved in the work. The scale of the plan was so immense that the fair, originally scheduled for 1903, had to be delayed by a year.

A link to read President Theodore Roosevelts Speech at the Dedication Ceremonies where he is pictured below. http://atthefair.homestead.com/Misc...OSEVELT.html

And my Grand Finale for 1904 World's Fair . . .

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition St Louis Day Ticket


This ticket was given to someone to enjoy "St Louis Day" on September 15th 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition from Dr. Bransford Lewis of St. Louis Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri.

I did find some information about him.


Born Nov 14 1862 in St. Charles County, Missouri.
Died at age 78 at his summer home near Saint Clair, Franklin County, Missouri.
Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery.

He was an accomplished surgeon with a long list of accomplishments.

Affiliate Fellow of the American Medical Association and a member of its House of Delegates in 1913.

A lecturer in genitourinary surgery at his alma mater from 1893 to 1895.

Assistant superintendent of St. Louis City Hospital in 1889 and on the staff from 1902 to 1905 and from 1910 to 1912.

On the staff of the Missouri Pacific Hospital from 1892 to 1896, Rebekah Hospital from 1901 to 1914, Deaconess Hospital from 1905 to 1912, Frisco Hospital from 1898 to 1915.

1912 urologist to St. John's Hospital.

Translated from the German "Genitourinary Diagnosis and Therapy for Urologists and General Practitioners," by Dr. E. Portner ; co-author, of "Cystoscopy and Urethroscopy".

A professor of urology at St. Louis University School of Medicine from 1900 to 1930 and since 1930 professor emeritus member of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons.

Past president of the American Urological Association, fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Past president of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association.

In 1933 vice president of the Pan American Medical Congress.
Edited a "History of Urology" in 1933, and wrote the chapter on the history of the American Urological Association.

He contributed largely to the of the modern development cystoscope.

Wrote about a surgical procedure nephropexy, to correct nephroptosis, a floating kidney, by fixing the kidney in place.

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Pierre Laclede is shown on the front and was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and stepson Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis in 1764, in what was then Spanish Upper Louisiana, in present-day Missouri.


Saint Louis on horseback is shown on the back. Apotheosis of St. Louis, A bronze statue of Saint Louis stands in Forest Park where the Fair took place. The statue is a replica of a plaster statue that stood on the concourse of the Plaza of St. Louis, near the main entrance to the fair

Win a Ford V-8 Ticket
at The 1935 San Diego Exposition


This is an apparently unused ticket to win a Ford at the 1935 San Diego Exposition and will accompany my newly acquired 1935 V-8 Medal from the same.
In the mid 70's I walked right past the Ford Exhibit Building in Balboa Park to enter a very smokey rock concert and never even knew I was on the very grounds of this California Pacific International Exposition, a World's Fair that was open from 1935 to 1936, in San Diego, Southern California.

See this post where I posted the medal. http://goccf.com/t/301479&whichpage=176#3147653

Very nice!

Thank you guys, still hoping to get a 1905 Louis and Clark Portland Day, A 1897 Tennessee Centennial, an 1898 Trans Mississippi someday. I have learned that if I'm patient they do come along at a good price, but it could be a long wait.
I have some in my watch list that re-list over and over but only watching for searching the "View similar items" tab. The sellers want too much for me.
Occasionally a weird obscure one like the 1935 Ford pops up and I was glad to get it.