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[Pin for the Texas Cotton Palace]

Description: Pin for the Texas Cotton Palace. The pin design is of the palace grounds and reads "Texas Cotton Palace Waco Nov 5-20".
Date: unknown
Creator: Texas Novelty Adv. Co. Hillsboro, Tex.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[First Premium Ribbon]

Description: Blue "First Premium" ribbon from the Texas Cotton Palace in Waco, Texas.
Date: 1914
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Badge for Commissioner J. N. Mitchell]

Description: Commissioner badge for J. N. Mitchell. This badge is from the 1929 Texas Cotton Palace and Dairy Show.
Date: 1929
Creator: Schwaabs & Co.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Columbian Exposition Medal]

Description: Souvenir medal from the world's fair in Chicago. One side has an image of Christopher columbus wearing armor, with his arms outstretched as he makes landfall, with the text "Christopher Columbus Oct-XII MCCCCXCII" at right. On the reverse, there are a number of images around the central text: "World's Columbian Exposition in Commemoration of the Four-Hundredth Anniversary of the Landing of Columbus. MDCCCXCII - MDCCCXCIII to T.V. Munson." Images include (at top) a globe with an angel on eit… more
Date: 189X
Creator: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 & Barber, Charles E., 1840-1917
Partner: Dallas Historical Society

[Louisiana Purchase Exposition Bronze Medal]

Description: Round commemorative medal featuring a bald eagle with wings outspread, holding up a box with the text: "Bronze Medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Below the text box are two fishes and a shell. On the reverse, there are two female figures, at left, a woman wearing a helmet and holding a U.S. flag out behind her, next to a partially-naked woman removing cloth decorated with bees. Text around the outside of the image says: "Universal Exposition Saint Louis United States of America, MCMIV."
Date: 1904
Creator: Weinman, Adolph A. (Adolph Alexander), 1870-1952
Partner: Dallas Historical Society

[Achievement Badge From the 1929 Texas Cotton Palace]

Description: Achievement Badge From the 1929 Texas Cotton Palace. The badge is attached to a cream colored ribbon on the top. The badge reads "Achievement Display Cotton Palace Waco Texas"
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[French Exposition Medal]

Description: Souvenir medal from the world's fair held in Paris, featuring a number of symbolic images. On one side, there is a woman seated beneath a tree, holding out a laurel crown to a man at left; at the bottom is an image of the exposition space with the Eiffel Tower. Text around the image says "Exposition Universelle" around the edge and the year, 1889, near the center. The other side has an angel blowing a trumpet in a tree, below a star, with her arm around the bust of a person wearing laurels (… more
Date: 1889
Creator: Bottée, Louis Alexandre
Partner: Dallas Historical Society

[Commemorative Louisiana Exposition Medal]

Description: Triangular commemorative medal with images in central circles, surrounded by stars and inititials. On the front, there is a bald eagle with wings outspread, holding up a box with the text: "Commemorative Medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Below the text box are two fishes and a shell. On the reverse, there are two female figures, at left, a woman wearing a helmet and holding a U.S. flag out behind her, next to a partially-naked woman removing cloth decorated with bees. Text around the o… more
Date: 1904
Creator: Weinman, Adolph A. (Adolph Alexander), 1870-1952
Partner: Dallas Historical Society

[Miniature Stein]

Description: Miniature ceramic drinking stein in an orange marbled pattern, with a hinged, connected metal lid. A small tag attached to the stein says, "German Exhibit Cotton Palace Waco 1912."
Date: unknown
Creator: Texas Cotton Palace
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

HemisFair's fun! Sticker

Description: Bumper sticker that reads, HemisFair's Fun! San Antonio World's Fair.
Date: 1968?
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

HemisFair '68 sign

Description: Advertising sticker with "HemisFair 1968" written in alternating magenta and orange capital letters with smaller magenta text below: "San Antonio World's Fair."
Date: 1968?
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

HemisFair '68 sign

Description: Sticker advertising HemisFair '68 in large green and blue alternating letters, with smaller text below: "World Exposition April 6-October 6, 1968 San Antonio, Texas."
Date: 1968?
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

HemisFair '68 sign

Description: Advertising sticker with the text "HemisFair '68" printed in alternating green and blue capital letters with smaller text in blue below: "World Exposition April 6-October 6, 1968 San Antonio, Texas."
Date: 1968?
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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