Book Title: Jain Center Los Angeles CA 2008 09 Pratishta Souvenior
Author(s): Jain Center So CA Los Angeles
Publisher: USA Jain Center Southern California
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EAST INDIA BUILDING
WORLD'S FAIR 1904
WHERE THE DELICIOUS INDIA ILAS ARE SERVED
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Figure 2. East India Pavilion, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
After viewing the stunning artifact, visitors enjoyed cups of fragrant tea served by attendants dressed in the native India costumes.
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Figure 3. Indian attendants in front of the wooden temple TRACING THE JOURNEY: FROM ST. LOUIS TO LAS VEGAS
When the fair was over, the temple was dismantled, re-crated and marked for shipment to England. For some reason the temple was not returned to England but instead it was purchased by an American art collector who stored it, still crated, until his death. When his
