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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
New Orleans 1885: Louisiana State Exhibit.....
The Louisiana State exhibit was located in the south-western portion of the Government & States Building. Covering an area of 9,805 square-feet, the host-state's comprehensive display featured a thirty-foot high tower, constructed of latticed sugar-cane, with palmetto fronds woven into branches at the corners. Aisles around the tower were decorated with Spanish-moss, cypress tree trunks, sugar-cane, and palmettos. Along one of the main aisles was a display of rice, located within a canopy thatched with rice straw, supported on pillars of sugar-cane, and decorated with cotton and Spanish-moss. A pyramid of oranges was sheltered by a similar canopy; while large bales of cotton, decorated with bolls and branches of cotton plants, were stacked nearby. A leading feature of the Louisiana exhibit was the timber display, judged as one of the greatest in the Government & States Building. Additional exhibits consisted of minerals, soils, rock-salt, sugar, honey, grapes, tobacco, rice, and cotton. A large number of mounted birds, mammals, and reptiles were also displayed, including a fifteen-foot long stuffed alligator from Bayou LaFourche. In a large glass case was an allegorical group, created entirely from cotton, featuring an elderly man and woman representing "King Cotton & Louisiana". Large obelisks of sugar and salt were displayed, showing the vast amounts of those products produced in the state. Over a large display of sugar-barrels, a sign proclaimed: "Only one-twentieth of the land in Louisiana available for sugar is now under cultivation", while another placard read: "Louisiana wants more men and women of brains, energy, and capital". A fine collection of Indian basketry, produced by the Chitimacha tribe from Bayou Teche, was exhibited among other native-Indian products. A large sign-board prominently displayed Louisiana's "Fruits of Prosperity", consisting of artistically-arranged samples of cotton, sugar-cane, rice, and other crops cultivated in the state during the previous one-hundred years.
November 3rd - 16th, 2008:
San Francisco 1894 - California Midwinter International Exposition.
November 17th, 2008 - January 7th, 2009:
New Orleans 1885 - The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.
January 8th - 31st, 2009:
Long Beach 1928 - Pacific Southwest Exposition.
February 1st - March 6th, 2009:
San Diego 1915 - Panama-California Exposition.
March 7th, 2009:
San Diego 1916 - Panama-California International Exposition.
March 8th - April 12th, 2009:
San Diego 1935 - California-Pacific International Exposition.
April 13th, 2009:
San Diego 1936 - California-Pacific International Exposition.
February 1st, 2018: 1884-NEW ORLEANS-1885 The Great World's Fair - book published!
The Louisiana State exhibit was located in the south-western portion of the Government & States Building. Covering an area of 9,805 square-feet, the host-state's comprehensive display featured a thirty-foot high tower, constructed of latticed sugar-cane, with palmetto fronds woven into branches at the corners. 
Aisles around the tower were decorated with Spanish-moss, cypress tree trunks, sugar-cane, and palmettos. Along one of the main aisles was a display of rice, located within a canopy thatched with rice straw, supported on pillars of sugar-cane, and decorated with cotton and Spanish-moss. 
A pyramid of oranges was sheltered by a similar canopy; while large bales of cotton, decorated with bolls and branches of cotton plants, were stacked nearby. A leading feature of the Louisiana exhibit was the timber display, judged as one of the greatest in the Government & States Building. 
Additional exhibits consisted of minerals, soils, rock-salt, sugar, honey, grapes, tobacco, rice, and cotton. A large number of mounted birds, mammals, and reptiles were also displayed, including a fifteen-foot long stuffed alligator from Bayou LaFourche. 
In a large glass case was an allegorical group, created entirely from cotton, featuring an elderly man and woman representing "King Cotton & Louisiana". Large obelisks of sugar and salt were displayed, showing the vast amounts of those products produced in the state. 
Over a large display of sugar-barrels, a sign proclaimed: "Only one-twentieth of the land in Louisiana available for sugar is now under cultivation", while another placard read: "Louisiana wants more men and women of brains, energy, and capital". 
A fine collection of Indian basketry, produced by the Chitimacha tribe from Bayou Teche, was exhibited among other native-Indian products. A large sign-board prominently displayed Louisiana's "Fruits of Prosperity", consisting of artistically-arranged samples of cotton, sugar-cane, rice, and other crops cultivated in the state during the previous one-hundred years.
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