The Big Show

The "big show" was the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Major Carroll of Ozark, Alabama would have been 53 years old at the time.  His daughter, Emma (Carroll) Espy, would have been 23 yrs old.   Not sure if all the kids went along.  The youngest was seven years old.

The Ozark Tribune

September 13, 1904 

The Ozark Tribune

Sept 13, 1904

This is a 1962 documentary about the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.  It includes interviews with people who attended.

This is another very good documentary.

Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (more commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904.^[4][5] The film stars Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, June Lockhart and Joan Carroll.

The Ozark Tribune

August 23, 1904

The Machester Democrat

September 7, 1904

Click here for some magnificent photos and more history of the 1904 World's Fair.

And click here to find out how a mahogany bar from the 1904 World's Fair ended up in Alabama.