1872 St Saint Louis Agricultural Exposition Expo Fairgrounds Fair Pamphlet

Description

A scarce and highly ephemeral site brochure from the 1872 iteration of the Annual Fair of the St. Louis Agricultural & Mechanical Association (popularly referred to as the "St. Louis Exposition" or "St. Louis Expo"). Includes 4 pages of dense, highly specific regulations for Fair exhibitors and 4 pages of engraved illustrated ads for local businesses and products including a "Portable Gas Machine," an internal combustion, gasoline powered household generator hawked by local pitchman Horace Holtman and shown in a detailed and large, cut-away illustration.
The annual fairs were held from about 1856-1902 over a sprawling grounds north of Downtown and were nationally heralded events seen as something of a massive County fair. Search is dominated by the prominent Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, though what we can discern in holdings and commerce is quite a few of the annual bound reports issued by the Association, though nothing resembling this in library records or commerce. A highly ephemeral and scarce survivor, thus.
[Americana].
[Exhibitor's Regulation Pamphlet for the 1872 St. Louis Exposition]
. St. Louis, Missouri: [1872]. [1-2]3-4[5]6pp. 9" x 5 3/4." Pamphlet. 3 ads with engraved illustrations. Edge wear, some light chipping from left margin. Appears complete.
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