The Centennial Expositio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

World expositions, commonly known in the United States as world’s fairs, were a popular means by which Americans learned about other cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Kingdom of Siam participated in several famous expositions celebrating significant occasions in American history, including the U.S. Centennial (Philadelphia, 1876), the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America (Chicago, 1893), the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase (St. Louis, 1904), and the completion of the Panama Canal (San Francisco, 1915).