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The St Louis Fair, 1904 5 years 6 months ago #70144

QSAMIKE Offline Senior Member Posts: 5957 Thank you received: 2076	Great items for a St. Louis Collection many I have never seen before..... Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing everyone..... Mike Life Member Past-President Calgary Military Historical Society O.M.R.S. 1591
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The St Louis Fair, 1904 5 years 6 months ago #70151

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The St Louis Fair, 1904 1 year 1 month ago #98213

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A poster I haven't seen before. The actual stunt was a little less dramatic.

DE WET'S ESCAPE

"SOUTH AFRICAN BOER WAR / NEAR TEMPLE OF FRATERNITY / INTRAMURAL STATION ELEVEN / EAST OF AGRICULTURE BUILDING / THREE PERFORMANCES DAILY / 2:30, 4:30, 8:30 P.M. / Produced under direction of FRANK E. FILLIS / CAPT. ARTHUR W. LEWIS, Gen'l Manager / MILITARY CAMP, 12 ACRES / Savage South African Kraals. National South African Exhibit and Curio Museum open from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m."

Commandant J.N. Boshof, General Piet Cronje, General Ben Viljoen and Commandant G.M. van Dam posing in front of a "blockhouse".
The chute used for the De Wet stunt is out of view on the left.
For orientation, the building in the far distance on the right is the Temple of Fraternity (see map above).

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The setup for the De Wet stunt, erected on the west side of the arena.

Postcard advertising the same stunt at Brighton Beach.
The photograph appears to have been taken at the St Louis re-enactment.

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The St Louis Fair, 1904 1 year 1 week ago #98671

azyeoman Offline Senior Member Posts: 649 Thank you received: 519	Here are some more pages from the Official Program of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair featuring the Anglo-Boer War. Attachments: The following user(s) said Thank You: Ians1900, Neville_C, Moranthorse1
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The St Louis Fair, 1904 5 months 6 days ago #101650

Neville_C Away Administrator Posts: 2158 Thank you received: 3691	Below are a couple of commemorative pin badges, issued for the Boer War Exhibition and carrying portraits of General Cronje together with the arms of the Transvaal. "HERO OF PAARDEBERG / GEN. CRONJE / BOER WAR / ST LOUIS WORLD FAIR 1904". .. Attachments: The following user(s) said Thank You: EFV, Ians1900, Moranthorse1
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