Virginian Pilot_1907

Newspaper article in four pieces. The title of the newspaper is 'Virginian Pilot, Sunday, November 10, 1907' with a headline 'Negro Building at Expo. Interesting Ethologic Study'. The article has handwriting in pencil up the side ' Mrs. Edith Mr. Swith. a southern woman/This article was prepared by ...(rest is missing)' and in blue colored crayon on top 'Norfolk VA'. The article is as follows "...edge teh wisdom of his teachings. As you enter from the east a series of historic tableaux, representing the negro in the different phases of our national life, at once attract attention. They were designed and executed by Meta Vaux Warrick of Philadelphia, who studied at the Art School in her native city and later on in Paris, and are most life-like. This young sculptor has other evidences of her talent in the building, and for these tableaux she has been awarded a gold medal by the Exposition Company. It may be said, en passant, that the exhibitors in the Negro building have thus far received 163 medals, twenty-six gold, fourty-four silver, and ninety-three bronze. Beginning with the landing of slaves at Jamestown in 1619, the scenes following represent successively: Work in the cotton fields; an escaping slave; organizing the first negro church, with a colored minister and officers, in 1816; an old slave defending his master's home during the Civil War; first school house; beginning of home-making among the negroes (they own at present five million dollars' worth of property); negro soldiers, of whom ther are four regiments in the regular army; negroes tilling their own farms (there are twenty thousand in this state who are farmers). The next two tableaux rerpesent the mechanic and the bank operated and owned by negroes (there are twenty-four of this kind in the United States); an improved home; a Sunday scene, and last a college comencement with Fred Douglas in the foreground."

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Virginian Pilot, Sunday, November 10, 1907

1907