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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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n as an exposition expert,was asked and furnished his opinion that the Board would do well tolimit industrial exhibitors, seen commonly at previous nationalfairs, and develop the historical and educational lines. The direct shaping of the course in the Expositions Board maybe traced to the period when Lieut.-Gov. J. Taylor Ellyson ofVirginia, began to exert his influence through his increasing interestin affairs, April, 1906. He then stamped his own individualityupon the work by reforming the main schedule of departments orbureaus, by writing into the list the new one — HISTORY. No building had, of course, been scheduled on the list whichwould house such a valuable collection as he had in mind, so thatwas Governor Ellysons second undertaking in behalf of his par-ticular project. Progressive Promoting Mr. Harry St. George Tucker, of Richmond, as president of theExposition, made a journey to Albany on purpose to address NewYorks Legislature, and in announcing the scope of the proposed
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