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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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re worth a hundred timesthe amount of money expended. State Buildings A walk along the sea line road brought one face to face with aseries of beautiful State buildings. This avenue was as attractiveas those fronted by the great, white palaces of varied industriesand arts. Each was a reproduction or replica of some famous building inthe State it represented. There was the Old State House trans-ported, as it were, from Boston; Independence Hall, as it appearsin Philadelphia; the Adena, for Ohio, a copy of the stone housebuilt in 1799 bv Thomas Worthington, the first United States Sena-tor from that State, and many others of like nature. Georgia wasrepresented by a reproduction of the Bullock House, occupied by thematernal ancestors of President Roosevelt, which he considered agracious compliment. The Negro Building deserves to come in for a share of unstintedcommendation. Designed by a negro as architect and solely con-ducted by educated people of that race, it carried out logically the
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o Z 3■j 0Q _ Jamestown Exposition 177 original conception of demonstrating the progress they had made,for within its walls were examples of what the negro has accomplishedin the arts and manufactures, one specimen of which was a walllined with books which men and women of that race had written. The Filipino Village, typifying Uncle Sams new ward, provedentertaining to those who like to behold strange peoples, to standand watch them busied naturally in their native habitations, whichresembled thached bunks, in some cases hanging over a streamfrom bamboo poles, resembling a mammoth bird-nest; sewing, cook-ing, manufacturing, or at their games and in their grotesque dances. Parade Ground Lee Parade Ground was an attractive place, especially everyafternoon, for it was here that the United States regulars, veteransfrom the Philippines, the Twelfth Regiment, and State militia drilledin spectacular fashion at 4 oclock. When the cavalry or artilleryoccupied the center of the scene, the grea

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