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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8238916, member: 20201"]1904 St Louis FairCoin Of AdmissionSo-Called Dollar HK-305 [ATTACH=full]1449945[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1449946[/ATTACH]  SOUVENIR COINS OF ADMISSIONCalled by some "handsomest metal products" of exposition. Issued by Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Coin Co. was in no way connected with the exposition company. Round specimen appeared first at cost of 50 cents. The purchaser was entitled to guess the number of total paid admissions, winner to receive $50,000 in gold!Promoters planned office at exposition entrance to redeem medals for admission tickets. A scheme launched at the same time as Official Souvenir Coin Department of exposition became active and the public long thought they were the same was part thereof. Situation was finally clarified by press releases.Obverse of medal bears crowned bust of Louis IX resembling that on Isabella quarter; also reverse bears word "coin." U.S. Treasury Department was asked by exposition to rule on both points but apparently no action taken.However, after "less than 25,000" round medals were sold, "a large order" was placed for octagonal shape.Almost concurrently, the Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Coin Company disappeared following failure to secure either official recognition or concession privileges and the octagonal issues were bought up by souvenir and coin dealers.Most medals bear serial number on reverse, round ones under No. 25,000, octagonal ones over No. 25,000. [ATTACH=full]1449947[/ATTACH] I collect exposition tickets as well as related medals and a St Louis ticket has been difficult for me to hunt down at a bargain. This, for awhile was as close as I could get so far to a ticket. 1903 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Dedication Ceremonies Ticket [ATTACH=full]1449954[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1449955[/ATTACH] 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. [ATTACH=full]1449957[/ATTACH] A link to read The President Theodore Roosevelt Speech at the Dedication Ceremonies where he is pictured below. <a href="http://atthefair.homestead.com/Misc/SP-ADDRESSOFPRESIDENTROOSEVELT.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://atthefair.homestead.com/Misc/SP-ADDRESSOFPRESIDENTROOSEVELT.html" rel="nofollow">http://atthefair.homestead.com/Misc/SP-ADDRESSOFPRESIDENTROOSEVELT.html</a> 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. Then this became available . . . 1904 Louisiana Purchase ExpositionSt Louis Day Ticket [ATTACH=full]1449949[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1449950[/ATTACH] 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. _____________________ 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. [ATTACH=full]1449952[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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