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Day of the Three Flags, Pageant

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@ Saint Louis Public Library

Schweig (Saint Louis, Mo.), photographer

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Thomas Wood Stevens, author of the Pageant, standing at left on the stage, directs actors in a scene depicting the Day of the Three Flags in the Pageant and Masque of St. Louis. Three Flags Day commemorates the transfer of Upper Louisiana on March 9 and 10, 1804 to the United States. Spain officially turned over the Louisiana Territory to France, which in turn ceded the territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.
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Keywords

  1. Actors
  2. Drama
  3. History
  4. Louisiana Purchase
  5. Missouri
  6. Pageant And Masque Of St. Louis
  7. Pageants
  8. Saint Louis
  9. Saint Louis (Mo.)
  10. Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880 1942

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