the fairs, and this happened at many of them. at st. louis, essentially anything they could think of to put the name st. louis world's fair or louisiana purchase exposition on, they did. we have hundreds of plates, a lot of them with buildings, some with other things. there's a lot of cut glass items. we have a number of things that won gold medals at the fair from matches to crayons, to dr. pepper, which won a medal at the fair, a gold medal, so we have a number of those industrial objects, including a corset that we have here that was done especially for the fair. you wouldn't think that was important, but it was awarded a prize at the st. louis fair. companies tended to use their awards as advertising after the fact, so on their boxes, they would say, gold medal, or in here, highest award st. louis 1904. they would have replicas of the medals so that people could know that this is a wonderful product because it won an award at a fair and during the late 19th, early 20th century, having that award was a key part of promoting items that they were selling. we have a couple things from the jefferson guard. it was, essentially, a police force that was done

the 1904 st. louis world fair. the fair came here as part of a series of international ex expositions. the crystal palace exposition,