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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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the Commission in the name of this State.Other entertainments by the sponsors for other cities. States andExposition officials maintained the high standard established. Among the more important functions given during the life ofthe Exposition by the New York State Commission were the receptionto the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, on GeorgiaDay; the breakfast to His Excellency, Governor Charles EvansHughes, orator of the National Holiday, July 4th; a ball, superb inits appointments, in honor of the midshipmen aboard the Fylgia, theflagship of His Royal Highness, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden; thebanquet to the members of the Robert Fulton Association and thedescendants, on Fulton Day; the New York Week, with October 10thas the fete; and pre-eminent among the individual functions was amagnificent banquet given by the President of the New York StateCommission, Hon. Thomas B. Dunn, of Rochester, to His Excel-lency, Governor Swanson, of Virginia, the Commissioners of other
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