Since this site opened up in March 16, 2008 with 145 pages of information, I believe that I have updated this 1904 World's Fair site more than any WF site on the Internet (of course I may be wrong). Since the list was getting long, I added an ARCHIVED UPDATES button above for the curious to check out how much I have done prior to the below listing. I will still upgrade and add information to this site as I can. Being a full-time teacher, while taking care of elderly parents, does make it tough though.
February 7, 2010: Overhauled and added a dozen plus pictures to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. section.
February 10, 2010: Added a Camp Lewis page in the Misc. section and some editing in various areas.
February 12, 2010: Overhauled and added a dozen plus pictures to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. section.
February 13, 2010: Added two photos to the Constructing the Fair in the Misc. section. Added two images to the After the Fair page in the Misc. section.
February 15, 2010: Added a photo to the Grandeur at the Fair page in the Misc. Section. Added another photo from the Pike in the Pike Section. Added a photo of the Iowa Bldg. in the States Section. Added two photos of Seveille in the Streets of Seville/Pike section. Added a picture of the destroyed Observational Wheel to the Pike and After the Fair section. Added a sobotage story to the Aeronautic Concourse page in the Misc. section. Added one addition to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. section.
February 21, 2010: Had a huge problem of lost information in the Famous Performers and Fairgoers section. I luckily fixed it and then broke the one big page into four smaller ones. Added two notable people on page four. Also added more info. to the Foods Facts page in Misc. section. Added three online book links to the Books Aonline page in the Misc. section. Added authors and pages to the other books.
February 27, 2010: Added one addition to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. section (page 4). Added two large pages in the Misc. Section- Racism and Living Zoos and added three images.
March 2, 2010: Added one image to the Great Anthracite Coal Mine page in the Misc. Section.
March 3, 2010: Added four additions to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. section.
March 6, 2010: New Splash page. Added two additions to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. section. Fixed some grammar.
March 7, 2010: Added a new page- Staff, in the Misc. section. Site maintenance.
March 11, 2010: Added three more photos to the Construction at the Fair page in the Misc. Section. Added one addition to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. section.
March 13, 2010: Added two more additions to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. Added a Fair Calendar page and a Death at the Fair in the Misc. section.
March 14, 2010: Added a: The City of St. Louis and the Fair page in the Misc. section. Added a few `missing' images as well as added more Fair info. here and there. Another name in the Death at the Fair page in the Misc. section.
March 22, 2010: Added a four images of the Original Photos at the Fair, and added a fourth page, in the Misc. section.
March 23, 2010: Added an image of the Original Photos at the Fair, on page four, in the Misc. section. Maintenance.
March 27, 2010: Added an image to the Palaces page, in the Palace section.
March 28, 2010: Added some small images to the Fair Calendar page in the Misc. section, added a Companies at the Fair page in the Misc. section and started to add 16 companies that were there. Added one addition to the Famous People who visited or worked the 1904 World's Fair in the Misc. section.
March 30, 2010: Got rid of the Fair Calendar.
April 3, 2010: Added 13 more companies to the Companies at the Fair page in the Misc. section
April 7, 2010: Added 5 images to the Lesser Known buildings and exhibits page in the Misc. section.
April 8, 2010: Added eight more companies to the Companies at the Fair page in the Misc. section and added thirteen images to this same page. Added two Steinway piano images to the New York State page in the States Section. Added an image to the Anthrocite Coal Mine page in the Misc. section. Added two images for the Battle Abbey page in the Pike section. Added a picture of Model City to the Model City page in the Misc. section. Added a butter sculpture to the Food Sculptures/Oddites page in the Misc. section.
April 11, 2010: Added one image to the People at the Fair page in the Misc. section. Reinstated the Fair Calendar, but took a lot of the details out to make it a more general calendar, in the Misc. Section.
April 22, 2010: Added one company to the Companies at the Fair page in the Misc. Section. Added a Special Exhibits section in the Misc. Page. And a Photographing the Fair- the thoughts of William H. Rau in that exhibit.
April 24, 2010: Added `How to Reach the Fair,' and `President Roosevelt's address' in the Special Exhibits section in the Misc. Page.
April 25, 2010: Added `Secretary of State's address' and four Governor proclamations to the Special Exhibits section in the Misc. Page.
July 13, 2010: It's been a long, long time (in-joke). I added 4 original Fair photos to the Private Fair Photos and a destroyed Ferris wheel to the After the Fair section all in the Misc. section.
July 30, 2010: Added 33 new book links included two large volumes in the Books Online page in the Misc. section. Also alphabetized all the book links.
August 6, 2010: Added another page (seven), to the Paintings Exhibited at the Fair. Added four paintings to the same pages in the Misc. section.
August 12, 2010: Added two thank yous to friends from this site. Added a picture of John Phillip Sousa at the Fair. in th Music at the Fair/Misc. section. Added a picture of the Wisconsin Bldg. under construction in the WI page state section.
September 3, 2010: Did some site maintenance and added two photos of the NY to the North Pole Pike attraction.
September 26, 2010: Added one interior image of the Palace of Fine Arts and an orignal Floral Clock image in the Private Fair Photos (page 4), in the Misc. page.
November 20, 2010: Added one blimp picture for the Aeronautic Concourse section in the Misc. page.
January 15, 2011: Added four Pike images in the Pike section. Also fixed a lot of site problems due to Homestead's not WYSIWYG builder.
March 24, 2011: Fixing errors and grammar.
April 3, 2011: Added three pictures on the Construction the Fair page, in the Misc. section.
June 3, 2011: Added three pictures (including one of Helen Keller), on page four of the Private Fair Photograph page in the Misc. section.
June 4, 2011: Added a page five to the Private Fair Photographs page and added four more original photos in the Misc. section.
June 28, 2011: Added four painting to the Paintings Exhibited at the Fair on page seven in the Misc. section.
August 15, 2011: Fixing a problem with the United States Gov. Building in Nations section (the link was missing). Updated links to every nation and fixed grammar.
August 22, 2011: Added a picture of the Glass Weavers building on the Pike, in the Pike section. Changed the site's info. from Glass Weaving to Glass Weavers.
September 3, 2011: Added a new page to the Misc. section- Water at the Fair.
September 12, 2011: Added a partial picture of thr International Doll House in the Lesser Know Buildings page in the Misc. section. Added a Farie Floss picture in Food Facts page in Misc. section.
November 25, 2011: Added a new `famous,' Fair-attendee'- Simon Newcomb to the Famous Performers/Fairgoers in the Misc. section.
January 7, 2012: Added two galleries of modern Fair Art. in Misc. section
June 3, 2011: Fixed a lot of grammatical errors. Thanks Linda!
I have deleted all the updates from MANY years back, and just included the most recent.
As you can see the updates between 2012 and May 2018 were minimal. Call it burnt out, whatever. In June of 2018, I decided to do MASSIVE revamping of this site.
Here are the latest updates:
January 7, 2012: Added two galleries of modern Fair Art. in Misc. section
June 3, 2012: Fixed a lot of grammatical errors. Thanks Linda!
August 21, 2013: Added a photo in Vulcan Page. Thanks Derek!
January 2014: New streamlined Main page and links fix.
March 8, 2014: Added the Innside Inn Menu to it's respected page in the Misc. section.
July 23, 2014: Started to fix massive spacial problems due to software. This is going to take months to repair! Added a 1904 WF appreciation Facebook
link and description. Re-worked Contact page and reinstated Guestbook.
July 25, 2014: Added more info. about the Observation Wheel in Misc. section.
February 2, 2015: Added another book link to the Fair Books in the Misc. section.
February 8, 2015: Added new page (empty) of Original Photos in the Misc. section.
November 4, 2015: Added info. to Gunshots at the Fair in Misc. section.
November 28, 2015: Added photo in Fair Construction sec. of Misc. page
August 7, 2016: Added photo Hereafter attraction in Pike Section
October 22, 2017: Added photo of Sunnybrook Distillery in Little Know Buildings/Misc. section.
June/July 2018: A MASSSIVE UPDATE TO THE ENTIRE SITE. Toning down the excess images, and making it easier to navigate and see. I fixed a lot of messed up links and pages. Some info. has been partially blocked (like Companies at the Fair), typos fixed, added pages. And re-scaled every pager on this site. Fixed links, errors, and added a lot of information on State and Pike attractions. Renamed every page as well (so it won't be read as simply- Palaces) Added Links to Fair Videos, more books, and sites.
July/August 2019: Adding various pictures, and info. and a lot more content. Added info. on Famous people at the Fair, Food Facts, and Racism at the Fair. Fixed some mistakes.
June 2020 through 2021: Massive update of images, adding many new elements, more artist exhibitors, food facts, Creation, and other updates.
August 20, 2021: New title page.
