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The Cotton Palace in those years was an expansive exhibition, incorporating elements of fair, public drama, parade, concert, landscape spectacle, carnival, and educational exhibit. Throughout the Texas Cotton Palace Exposition, the performance of power and the promotion of civic virtue were demonstrated to the community through a variety of performative elements enacted by or evocative of iconic characters. 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