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Frederick Dent Grant (center), son of President Ulysses S. Grant, Cyrus F. Blanke (left), president of C.F. Blanke Tea & Coffee Company of St. Louis, and a military officer pose on horseback in front of the log cabin built by Grant's father in the mid-19th century when he farmed in St. Louis County, Missouri, a few days before the cabin was moved to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition grounds. Exhibited at the 1904 World's Fair, it was later purchased by August A. Busch and moved to ""Grant's Farm"", the Busch estate on Gravois Road in St. Louis County. Blanke owned the cabin at the time of the exposition. Copyright 1903, C.F. Blanke. No. 332No. 223 written on glass plate envelope.
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Keywords

  1. Blanke, Cyrus F., 1862 1942
  2. Exhibitions
  3. Exhibitions & Displays
  4. Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850 1912
  5. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822 1885
  6. Homes & Haunts
  7. Log Cabins
  8. Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
  9. Missouri
  10. Saint Louis
  11. Saint Louis (Mo.)
  12. Saint Louis County

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