Items

• Letter, Wong Kai Kah to May Wright Sewall, May 7, 1904

  Wong Kai Kah writes to thank Mrs. Sewall for the elaborate arrangements being made for Prince Pu Lun. The Prince will speak at the Girls Classical School graduation ceremony and assist with handing out diplomas to the young ladies. Wong Kai Kah was a member of the first group of Chinese students to come to this country to study. He was Secretary of the Chinese Embassy at the coronation of King Edward, VIII of England, and was Chinese vice-commissioner to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, traveling with His Imperial Highness Prince Pu Lun
• Katharine [Kate] Carl, “the author in Chinese costume."

  photograph on page 235
• Examples of documents and publications contributed for display at the Fair.
• Empress Dowager Cixi, 1903
• David R. Francis, President Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

  portrait
• D. Percebois

  portrait
• Cover image, Le Rire: Journal Humoristique. July 14, 1900
• Correspondence, Kate A. Carl to Halsey Ives
• Construction of China's pavilion for the 1904 World's Fair

  Source Caption: A view from the southwest of the construction of the Chinese pavilion for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The Chinese compound consisted of four buildings surrounded by a stone wall. No. 2030.
• Constructing China's pavilion for the 1904 World's Fair

  Source caption: A view from the southwest of the construction of a building in the China pavilion at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. China's pavilion consisted of four buildings surrounded by a stone wall. No. 2270.
• CHINESE PAVILION
• Chinese Empress Dowager’s 70th Birthday Reception, November 16, 1904

  Second Row Center, Miss And Mr. Carl; First Row, Mrs. Carl, Mrs. Wong, Mrs. Francis, Mr. Wong, Mrs. Manning.
• Chinese delegation at Administration Building

  Caption from source: A delegation from China, led by Imperial Vice Commissioner Wong Kai Kah, visited the Louisiana Purchase Exposition headquarters in July 1903. Pictured, from left, in the first row are Tong Foo Pei, Director of Works Isaac S. Taylor, Wong Kai Kah, President of the Exposition Company David R. Francis, Li Kit Helen, Chang You Tong, Ma Kang Yu, and Kee Owyang; standing on the steps are Reception Committee chair F.D. Hirschberg, exposition Secretary W.B. Stevens, F.V.J. Skiff, Yu Kit Men, Russell Stanhope and Theodore Hardee. [Building later renamed Brookings Hall.]
• Chinese artisans in St. Louis, names unidentified

  Chinese craftsmen working on the China pavilion
• China’s Exhibits at the Palace of Manufactures
• China’s Exhibit of Carved Furniture at the Palace of Liberal Arts
• CHINA BUILDING, OFFICIAL SOUVENIR WORLD'S FAIR ST. LOUIS 1904.
• China : catalogue of the collection of Chinese exhibits at the Louisiana purchase exposition, St. Louis, 1904

  Cover of printed catalog. Previous catalogs described exhibits grouped by themes. Percebois added another system of categorization. In this catalogue, the Chinese exhibits were divided into several regional collections and exhibits, such as Hankow Collection, Shanghai Collection, Hupeh Provincial Exhibit. The catalogue became a display of China’s regional characteristics, so the reader learned about China overall.
• Carved Wooden Shi Statue from the Chinese Pavilion at the 1904 World's Fair

  Carved wooden shi or guardian lion statue
• Calling Card of Ching Ta-chen, secretary to Prince Pu Lun