Award Medals
of America’s Expositions & World’s Fairs

America had some wonderful expositions and world fairs in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Award medals, official medals, souvenir medals, award medals, badges, pins, tokens, prize medals were issued at the US expositions and are great collectables. This site shall be to catalog most of the medallions from these events focusing on the beautifully designed award medals but inclusive of official medals, souvenir medals and tokens. These medals are historical, beautiful and interesting. This is a medal collection by Robert Fowler.

Click the name of the exposition or world fair for more medals from each.

1876 US Centennial Exposition Award Medal

1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition- Philadelphia, PA Medals

1884-5 Silver Souvenir Medal from The World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Expo in New Orleans

1884-5 Souvenir Silver Medal from The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Expo in New Orleans

1884 New Orleans CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION

1876 PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BRONZE AWARD MEDAL

SAINT GAUDENS' WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION AWARD MEDAL

WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION in 1893 Chicago

Saint Guardian World’s Columbian Exposition Official Award Medal 1893

Gold Medal Atlanta Cotton States Exposition 1895

Atlanta Cotton States Exposition in 1895

Gold Award Medal – Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition

Silver Medal Charleston SC Interstate and West Indian Exposition 1901-1902

Charleston South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition in 1901-1902

Silver Award Medal – 1901-1902 Charleston SC Exposition

Gold medal 1904 St Louis Louisanna Purchase Exposition

Louisiana Purchase Exposition St Louis 1904

Gold Award Medal – 1904 Saint Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Bronze Medal 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition

Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Norfolk County VA 1907

Gold Award Medal – 1904 Saint Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Bronze medal Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909

Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909

Bronze Award Medal – 1909 Seattle Exposition

Medal from 1915 San Francisco Exposition

Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco 1915

Bronze Award Medal – 1915 San Francisco Exposition

medal 1915 San Diego Panama-Pacific Exposition

Panama-California Exposition San Diego 1915

Award Medal – 1915 San Diego Panama-California Exposition