DGHM 110: Introduction to Digital Humanities

New York Tribune_1907

Newspaper article with a handwritten notation in ink down the left side "N.Y. Lun__ Mar 31, 1907." The article is as follows: " A Negro Sculptress/ Miss Warrick Appointed by Government to Send Exhibit to Jamestown./ An unusual interest attaches to the appointment by the United States government of Miss Meta Vaux Warrick as sculptress for the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. The appointment is an honor to her sex and an honor to her race, and it is safe to say that many visitors to the exposition will make a point of seeing what this young Negro woman can do. Miss Warrick's plans for the decoration of the Negro Pavillion include a series of fifteen tableaus, illustrating the history of the Negro race from the landing of the first boatload of African slaves at Jamestown in 1619 to the present time. Each group will occupy a square measuring ten feet by ten, (follows on second clipping) the figure being a quarter life size, and the whole series will cover 1,500 feet of space. After the landing of the slaves at Jamestown, the Negroes will be shown at work in the cotton field. There will be shown the escaping slave, and side by side with the Negro soldier will stand the faithful protector of the family of the absent master. In other models will be shown the Negro as farmer, mechanic and banker, the Negro poet, the orator, the painter and the physician. The thirst of the Negro race for knowledge and enlightenment (broken up by a round photograph of Meta and the text "Miss Meta Vaux Warrick./ Sculptress of the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition.") will be reflected by the primitive schoolhouse, and the handsome modern church will be contrasted with the first African Methodist Episcopal Church founded at Philadelphia, in 1816, by Richard Allen. Miss Warrick was educated in the Drexed (word crossed out in ink) School of Fine arts in Philadelphia, of which city she is a native, and she has also studied in Paris."

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"A Negro Sculptress," New York Tribune, March 31, 1907, 50.

1907