Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Letters of introduction of Kessler from President of Heim Brewing Co. Joseph Heim to Treasurer of the St. Louis Brewing Association William Nolker and to President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company David R. Francis. Correspondence with Director of Works Isaac Taylor, Secretary Walter B. Stevens, Surveyor and Civil Engineer Julius Pitzman, Kansas City attorney Edward L. Scarritt, and Superintendent D.W.C. Perry. Information includes landscape ideas for the World's Fair including the removal of trees to make way for fair buildings and a permanent greenhouse. (77 pages), 1899-1902
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.
Dates:
1899-1902
Correspondence with Louisiana Purchase Exposition Director of Works Isaac Taylor, Park Commissioner Franklin L. Ridgely, status reports from Superintendent D.W.C. Perry, requests to nurseries for appropriate plants, trees and flowers, and requests from newspapers for information regarding the World's Fair. Of interest is an invitation to dinner at the German Pavilion (May 10, 1904) and an offer from The Cartoonists' Club to publish character drawings and biographies titled "The World's Fair Immortals" (September 5, 1904). (52 pages), 1902-1904
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.
Dates:
1902-1904
Recapitulation Table of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company Landscape Department and various reports including "Materials and Methods of Construction in the Exposition Building" by Philip Markmann, "Landscape of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company" by George Kessler, report by the Chief Designer for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company Emanuel Masqueray, a report on the Cascade Garden, a sketch of the Tesson Greenhouse, an itemized list of buildings built for the exposition, notes on the building and planting scheme for the fair, and a brief biography of Kessler. Includes three publications regarding the fair: "Facts about the World's Fair," "Universal Exposition 1904," and "The Architectural Record." (105 pages), [ca. 1904]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The George E. Kessler Papers include business and personal correspondence, pamphlets, reports, minutes of proceedings, invitations, postcards, brochures, photographs, blueprints, sketches, and maps.
Dates:
[ca. 1904]