Daily official program for the World's Fair or Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis on August 12, 1904, which played host to that year's Olympic Games, 16 pages, 6 x 9, providing schedules and descriptions of the day's diverse events, which includes: “Feeding hour for seals, turtles, sturgeons, and birds,” “Anthropological Athletic Contest,” “U.S. Life Savers’ Drill,” and more. The upcoming Olympic events is listed on last page. In very good to fine condition, with a horizontal fold, and wear and toning to covers. Of considerable interest is the mention of the controversial Anthropology Days event held on August 12-13, some two weeks before the opening ceremony. Indigenous men from around the world, attending the World's Fair as part of the Department of Ethnology exhibits, participated in physical displays alongside cultural presentations as a means for anthropologists to see how they compared to their white counterparts.
