In 1904, nearly 1,200 Filipinos were flown to the U.S. to take part in the World's

Fair in St. Louis. Some worked as guides, but others were put on display. Now, than a century later a new exhibit explores the impact

in St. Louis and beyond. Our community's correspondent Gabriel Hayes has this report.

The 1904 World's Fair, 20 million visitors, the newest

marvels in art architecture and technology, a giant Ferris wheel, cream and hundreds of human beings on display.

A hundred and twenty years later, there's still people who have perceptions of Filipinos as

sabotages and as primitives.

I have gotten West Indies in the last year asking me

in their buildings in the Philippines.

Ria Unson's great-grandfather, Ramun Achoa,

was brought to St. Louis in 1904

to be a pensionado at the fair, a sort of ambassador promoting the influence of Western culture on their home country.

So I happened to Google his name and this image

better came out with him on the steps at Festival Hall now having spent 28

Harris now in St. Louis really familiar with that bist up right?

It was like hey that looked like it's a world's fair.

Ochoa was part of the Philippine Village,

the largest section of the fair,

a 47-acre display designed to introduce Americans

to the then newly acquired territory.

It cost a lot of money to stage that exhibit.

It was $1.5 million.

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