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Memphis Exhibit Negro Building Atlanta Exposition – Historic Photograph Print

Memphis Exhibit Negro Building Atlanta Exposition, 1896 — historic image
Memphis Exhibit Negro Building Atlanta Exposition, 1896. Historic image from the Atlanta collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Memphis Exhibit Negro Building Atlanta Exposition, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Memphis Exhibit Negro Building Atlanta Exposition

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The Memphis exhibit in the Negro Building at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta is the focus of this view, which shows one of the displays set up by different cities and states inside the building. The exposition opened in September 1895, and Booker T. Washington gave his well-known address there that month. The Negro Building was among the exposition's most visited spaces and was meant to show the progress of Black Americans in education, industry, and the arts, with exhibits from across the South and beyond. The photograph is dated 1896 in its record, a year after the fair opened.

Created / published1896
NotesNo. 10691.
SubjectsCotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta Ga.) Exhibitions--Georgia--Atlanta--1890-1900. African Americans--Exhibitions--Georgia--Atlanta.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,608 × 2,289 px · prints to 15 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-STV-268034

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