Virginia.—Virginia is represented among the State buildings at
the World's Fair by a reproduction of Monticello (Little Mountain),
the home of the President who directed the purchase of Louisiana.
Mr. Jefferson was an enthusiastic student of architecture, and an amateur
draughtsman, who brought back from his foreign tours many
studies of famous old buildings.

The building covered  an area of 113 by 99 feet, and cost  17,000 dollars. It had a picturesque site on `The Trail' leading from the Palace of Fine Arts to
the Foreign Buildings. It contained a life size statue of the Jefferson, contributed by the University he founded.

Virginia had exhibits in Agriculture which included one of tobacco, which  featured  an Indian maiden standing on a pedestal 23 feet high and holding in her outstretched hand a bundle of tobacco.

The Forestry, Fish, and Game exhibit included: 28 by 30" transparencies, they   were used to illustrate forest scenes.

In The Mines palace, there were award -winning exhibits that included- ores of gold, silver, lead, iron, asbestos, kaolin, mica, clays, zinc, manganese, talc, etc., while exhibits of marble, rough and sculptured, together with cubes of building stones and mineral waters were displayed.
VIRGINIA
                AT THE FAIR  The 1904 St. Louis World's   Fair 
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The Viriginia exhibit in the palace of  Agriculture contained many open-sided structures or display cases topped by domes and then balls with triangular tufts above.  The exhibit is decorated with ears of dry corn, dried herbs, and stalks of grain. One of the domed structures appears to hold many bottle of champagne. Many bottles or glass containers  appear to be filled with dried grain.
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