The Forest city, comprising the official photographic views of the Universal exposition, held in Saint Louis, 1904, commemorating the acquisition of the Louisiana territory
The Forest City is a photographic souvenir book issued in 1904 in Saint Louis by Thompson, compiled by Walter B. Stevens and William Herman Rau to record the Louisiana Purchase Exposition for visitors and commemorators. The single picture is a black-and-white photograph of a wide river bend with a footbridge, low embankment, and exposition-style domed buildings on the far bank under a hazy sky. A designer could take its flat, documentary tonality and the strong diagonal of the bridge across the water as a quiet study in early twentieth-century civic landscape.
