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While the lpe would be a place where everyone could learn, for working citizens it would be special. ”5 Education was conceptualized broadly, but the ultimate goal was to educate men who would use their new knowledge to expand industry and commerce. The exposition also had to make money. Federal subsidies had to be repaid; the business community wanted its investment to make a great profit. The Organizing the Louisiana Purchase Exposition | 19 Fig. 4. Government Building beyond Sunken Garden, with Liberal Arts Building (left) and Mines and Metallurgy Building (right).

In fact, it could be the most outstanding feature of the St. Louis Exposition. They unanimously accepted it and sent Francis an outline of the ambitious vision. “It will depart from the plan of all past expositions, and make life and movement its distinguishing and marked characteristic. It will embrace in its scope a comprehensive anthropological exhibition, constituting a congress of races, and exhibiting particularly the barbarous and semi-barbarous peoples Organizing the Louisiana Purchase Exposition | 27 of the world, as nearly as possible in their ordinary and native environments” (Lehmann 1901).

8 Ironically, Bushnell was not appointed to the anthropology committee, nor was his father, a member of the Missouri Historical Society’s fair committee. Interestingly, neither was Chouteau. In fact there was no one with any anthro- Organizing the Louisiana Purchase Exposition | 21 Fig. 5. Frederick W. Lehmann, 1903, Chair of the Anthropology Committee and International Congress. lpec publicity photo by L. Strauss. St. Louis Public Library, image no. lpe0167. pological experience on the committee.

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