The Jamestown Exhibition: Illustrated
Richmond: Jamestown Official Photo Corporation, 1907. Softcover. Official Publication. The Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, marking the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown and the Virginia colony by settlers from England, was held in Norfolk, Virginia, from April 26 to November 30, 1907. The event was one in a series of large fairs and expositions held across the United States, beginning with the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, which commemorated the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. Such events were designed as international showcases for arts and technology and were often linked to important anniversaries in order to highlight the notion of historical “progress.” More than its predecessors, the Jamestown exhibition emphasized athletics and military prowess, the latter drawing some protests. Very good. Item #300374
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