The Louisiana Purchase Desk

Among the many remarkable pieces of furniture at the World's Fair the most important one was the desk on which the Louisiana transfer was signed. It stood in the great hall of the second floor of the Cabildo, Louisiana's historic building. Above the desk hung a painting of the Marquis Pierre Clement Laussat, colonial French Prefect of Louisiana, seated at the very same desk. This interesting relic was in a perfect state of preservation although it was by no means new when the Louisiana territory became a part of the United States in 1803




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