Articles About Specific Exhibits
Michigan Exhibit, Buffalo Evening News, August 20, 1901
The agricultural exhibit is as complete as any on the grounds. Surrounded by a natural wood facade which serves as an admirable frame for the collection of grains and flours, it includes in addition many other products such as maple sugar, evaportated vegetables used on ships and in mining camps, wool and seeds, etc. The agricultural exhibit is embellished by pictures of the leading colleges in the State. Commissioner Miner T. Cole is in charge of this exhibit, and the exhibit of butter in the Dairy building.
Corn Palace at the Pan-Am, April 3, 1901
It Will Belong to the Illinois Exhibit and be placed in the Agriculture Building.
J. H. Fursman of Peoria, Ill., a member of the Illinois Pan-American commission, called on Supt. Converse yesterday and spent the day in making arrangements for the Illinois exhibit. Illinois' appropriation is $75,000, and with one exception this State's exhibit will be the most pretentious in the Agricultural building.
It has been decided to erect a miniature corn palace, constructed and trimmed similar to the Illinois exhibit at the World's Fair. Corn will be used only in the construction, but in the scheme of decoration and interior furnishings.
The feature will be one of the most interesting in the whole agricultural exhibit.
The Indispensable Experimental Station. (Bennitt Souvenir Guide)
An exhibit of wide interest is made by the Office of Experiment Stations at Washington, D. C., under the supervision of Dr. A.C. True, Director. This is supplemented by the New York State exhibit from Geneva, under the direction of Dr. W.H. Jordan. This presents largely the work of fertilizers, and dairy bacteriology, feeding, statistics, the combating of destructive insects, etc.
Agriculture Building Exhibits (Rand-McNally Handbook to the Pan-American Exposition)
If one enters the Agriculture building from the west door, which leads out on the Mall, the first object which attracts attention is the exhibit of the Argentine Republic, on the left of the aisle. This is the largest exhibit in the building, and is surrounded a highly ornamented and artisically constructed booth. Among the exhibitors here are those of wool, grain and speciments of agate. These are the three prinicipal products of the southern republic, and it is on them that all the business interests of the country have centered to make the republic known to the outer world.
Across the aisle to the south are the exhibits of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Porto Rico, and Costa Rica, which contain many things of interest to people of this country.
The Mexican exhibit is to the east of the Argentine exhibit, but along the north wall of the building. Here are shown the products of the fields of the sister republic.
Canada, Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, New York, Illinois, Missouri, California and Alabama occupy the center tier. The most noticeable exhibit is that of Illinois, which has a corn pagoda in the center and is designed to typify Illinois as the greatest corn producing state in the Union.
In the Lousiana exhibit are shown samples of sugar cane and material descriptive of the making of sugar and molasses. There are also here fine exhibits of tobacco, such as is grown only in that state.
On the south wall of the building Michigan, New Jersey, Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts and Nebraska vie with each other for recognition.
This building has a gallery on the north side in which are to be seen the apiarian exhibit of the state of New York and of the Canadian government. Also the exhibits of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association and paintings showing scenes along the lines along various western railways.