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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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with a most complete and entertaining descriptionof all that took place, is Mr. Charles Russel Keiley, and great creditis his for his painstaking work. Having examined the History Exhibit made by New York State,he has this to say at the commencement of a lengthy article describingit in detail: The New York State historical exhibit was one of the mostinteresting on the grounds. In the selection of matter the most 244 New York at Jamestown scholarly judgment was used and the arrangement was excellent,each exhibit being placed chronologically. This placing enabled avisitor to begin at one end of the section and trace by steps the com-plete history of the State from the pre-Colonial period to the presentday. Around the three walls of the exhibit room were placed a num-ber of heavy glass cases, displaying priceless relics. Over the casesthere depended about thirty paintings and engravings illustrating thehistory which the relics recalled. Cuyler Reynolds, of Albany, N. Y.,was the Curator.
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s x X uJ >-DCOH;2 X uJf- - 2 CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITION AN EXPLANATORY LIST OF ARTICLES, REPLETE WITHCHRONOLOGICAL MATERIAL THAT WILL GUIDETHE VISITOR AND FURNISH A USEFUL REFERENCETO THE STUDENT OF AMERICAN HISTORY 247 Catalogue of Exhibition THE Past of a locality, presented in a history, acts as an incen-tive to the Present and determines the Future. It showswhat has been done by heroic characters, or rather, what greatthings were accomplished by those, possibly simple-living folk, who didtheir full duty, and the people of the present age, imbued with thespirit of progress invariably desire to surpass the efforts of those whowent before. It is the spirit of the times,— Surpass,— Excelsior/ The fact that one strives for a new record or for something betterthan has been, takes it for granted that to excel one must surpasswhat has been achieved, and the story that tells of this,— is History.The Historical Exhibit is but another form of presenting a history,and a stri

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