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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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g most satisfactorily throughout the season, andhis companion was detailed at intervals of two weeks. There was an extensive collection of Colonial pewter, embracingfully two dozen artistically designed pieces, the property of Mr.Gardner C. Leonard of Albany. There was a painted Dutch prayer-bench of 1702 and a crude sort of cradle, said to be the oldest in theState, both loaned by Geo. Douglas Miller, Esq., and allied with thisin the Dutch exhibit was an enormous iron fire-place back removedfrom the Schuyler Flatts, and shown because of the peculiar patternof design cast in its back, apparently an odd form of the Englisharms. Making a lasting impression upon every one who saw it was oneof the enormous iron links, weighing about eighty-five pounds, fromthe Great Chain, which was cast at the Stirling Iron Works of theTownsend family and was buoyed across the Hudson from WestPoint to Constitution Island to prevent the British from sendingtheir fleet further north in Revolutionary times.
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PENNY POSTMAN What was styled a physiognotrace (silhouette) was popular In the century beforephotography. Penny Postman Wm. B. Wlnne was one of the first to carry city mail,1795 to 1832, when it had been brought to Albany by stage-coach, and the originalprint Is preserved In the Post-Office there. This was half a century before stampswere in use. New York State History Exhibit 235 Some Rare Curios A quilt composed of squares worked by wives of members of theColonial Congress, when in Philadelphia, and its central piece workedby no less a character than Martha Washington, was an object loanedby Mr. John Mack, and he also sent a fine specimen of herembroidery in silk, which hung in an old-fashioned gilt frame, andthe first flag taken by the Americans in the War with Spain. Dr. William J. Milne loaned the manuscript in the hand of EdwardEverett of the first opening oration ever delivered before a normalschool. The contract for the first rails to be laid in crossing NewYork State was inte

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