Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

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417 Notes Abbreviations bia Bureau of Indian Affairs/Indian Service chs Colorado Historical Society Archives cp-fairs Chilocco Indian School Papers–fairs fm Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology fsp Frederick Skiff Papers, Colorado Historical Society Archives lc Library of Congress lccc Lewis and Clark Centennial Corporation lpec Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company as publisher lpec-cf Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company corporate files lpec-drpc Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, Departmental Reports, Publicity, and Catalogues lpec-odp Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, Official Daily Program lpec-opa Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, Official Photograph Albums lpec-wfb Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, World’s Fair Bulletin mhs Missouri Historical Society mp WJ McGee Papers, Library of Congress na National Archives, Washington dc na–Fort Worth National Archives, Southwest Regional Branch, Fort Worth, Texas naa National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution ohs Oklahoma Historical Society orhs Oregon Historical Society rg Record Group ru Record Unit sia Smithsonian Institution Archives sp Frederick Starr Papers, University of Chicago uc University of Chicago Library, Special Collections 418 Note on Archival Sources Louisiana Purchase Exposition organizers left a plethora of operational records, now housed in the Missouri Historical Society as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Corporation Records: personal correspondence and newspaper scrapbooks, daily records, official publications, monthly departmental reports, rosters of daily activities, visitors’ comments, oral histories, and final reports submitted at the close of the fair by each department head. Of special interest are the files of the publicity department, McGee’s incomplete report, exhibit catalogues, and the official photographic albums. Unfortunately the files of nations, states, and individual businesses are exceedingly incomplete. More comprehensive in this regard are the lpec’s published volumes and daily programs. These include information from the standpoint of the lpec. Other information on the exposition is scattered around the country and is cited herein based on archival location and author. McGee kept most of the Department of Anthropology’s files and correspondence after the lpe closed. He considered these materials his personal papers, which means that the materials in the mhs are sketchy. Much of the departmental material is now in McGee’s papers at the Library of Congress. Of special use have been McGee’s scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, (boxes 16 and 32, labeled lpe scrapbooks). Frederick Skiff, William H. Holmes, and Frederick Starr compiled similar scrapbooks. We have utilized these materials extensively. If incomplete information is found in an endnote reference it is because citation information was missing from these scrapbooks. In many cases we have been able to locate the original publication either online or through interlibrary loan. Other newspapers have been accessed online. Materials for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian School are found in three primary locations: the National Archives in Washington, the Southwest regional branch of the National Archives in Fort Worth, and the Oklahoma Historical Society. The most complete run of the Indian School Journal was found at the Fort Worth branch of the National Archives. Like McGee, Samuel McCowan took all the Indian School records with him; they are today found in the papers of the Chilocco Indian School in seventeen boxes identified as “fairs,” arranged consecutively by date from June 1895 to December 1904. We refer to these as Chilocco Papers. A special word should be said about the Indian School Journal. While most issues are sequentially numbered by volume and date, a special October issue is not in numerical sequence with other issue numbers. In addition, the title of many articles is the same in multiple issues. In order to identify the source of particular information we have referred to the article title and then given the month and day of publication. Finally, since author attribution is not given here or in many of the official lpe publications, we have chosen not to use “Anonymous ” but to cite as author the publisher in order to avoid untold confusion. Prologue 1. Slocum (1904) quoted in Moses (1996, 151) and Rydell (1984, 155). 2. Francis quoted in McGee (1905d, 115). While earlier fairs had utilized Native dem-| Notes to page 3 419 onstrators, the lpe’s size and complexity went beyond anything that had occurred previously . 3. Findling and Pelle (1990, 63–107); Rydell, Findling, and Pelle (2000); Rydell (1984); Curti (1950). The English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson is said to have declared it “the world’s great fair.” Official names of these extravaganzas...