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Research Guide: Jamestown Ter- of 1907

Also known as: 1907 or 1907 Jamestown Expo.

Purpose: To commemorate the 300th founding of Jamestown by English colonists. Location: Sewell’s Point in Norfolk County, Virginia (presently the site of ) Opening Date: April 26, 1907 Closing Date: November 30, 1907

Primary Sources: Published works are available for browsing in SMC’s open stacks unless otherwise indicated. See staff for details. Official Seal for Jamestown Exposition

Books and Pamphlets:

Darling, Flora Adams. 1607-1907: Memories of Virginia: a Souvenir of Founding Days. [Washington D.C., c1907] Call #: 975.5 DAR

Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition. The Official Blue Book of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, A.D. 1907. The Only Authorized History of the Celebration. Illustrated. Norfolk, VA: The Colonial Pub. Co., 1909. Call #: 975.5 JAM (SMC Vault)

Laird & Lee's Guide to Historic Virginia and the Jamestown Centennial ... Full Statistics and Itinerary. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1907. Call #: 917.55 LAI

Norfolk Dispatch. Jamestown Exposition Edition of the Norfolk Dispatch. Norfolk, VA: Norfolk Dispatch Pub. Co., 1904. Call #: 975.5521 NOR (SMC Vault)

Rand McNally and Company. Description of the Jamestown Exposition: Celebrating the First Permanent English Settlement in America: Combined with a Complete Atlas of the World. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1907. Call #: 975.5425 RAN (SMC Vault)

Guidebooks:

Evans, Edward S. The Official Encyclopaedic Guide to Richmond and Vicinity, Including Battlefields. Richmond: for the Official Guide Co. by the Richmond Press, 1906. Call #: 917.55451 EVA

Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition. The Jamestown Exposition and Historic . Norfolk, Va.: Seaboard Publishing Company, 1907. Call #: 975.5425 JAM

Thomas, W. F. Information about Norfolk, Portsmouth: the two cities whose industrial growth and common commercial interests bid fair to result, through civic union, in what may be called greater Norfolk: the Jamestown Exposition, Newport News, Hampton, Old Point and vicinity. Norfolk, VA: W.F. Thomas, 1907. Call #: 917.5552 INF

Governing Bodies of Exposition:

Jamestown Exposition. Jamestown Exposition on Hampton Roads, 1907 ... Rules and Regulations Governing the System of Awards. Newport News: Franklin Print. Co., n.d. Call #: 975.54251 JAM

Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition. By-Laws and Manual of the Jamestown Exposition Co. Commemorating the First English Settlement of America at Jamestown in Virginia, May 13th, 1607. Jamestown Ter-Centennial and Naval-Marine Exhibition, 1607-1907. n.d. Call #: 975.54251 JAM

Federal Reports and Documents:

United States. Jamestown Exposition: Hearings Before the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, Fifty-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on Mar. 28, 1904. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1904. Call #: 975.54251 UNI

United States. Jamestown Exposition. Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, Fifty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Feb. 28, 1906. Part 2 Part 2. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1906. Call #: 975.54251 UNI

United States. Final Report of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission: Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting the Final Report of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission, Embodying Reports of Various Officers of the Jamestown Exposition Held at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1907. Washington: G.P.O., 1909. Call #: 975.54251 UNI

State Reports and Documents:

Hinton, Mary Hilliard. The Historical Exhibit at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26-December 1, 1907: A History of the Exhibit, Together with a Complete Catalogue of the Relics, Portraits and Manuscripts Exhibited. Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton, 1916. Call #: 069.5 HIN

Lambert, James H. at the Jamestown Exposition, Hampton Roads, Va., 1907. : Pennsylvania Commission, 1908. Call #: 974.8 PEN

Louisiana. Louisiana at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, 1907. s.l: s.n, 1908. Call #: 975.54251 LOU

Massachusetts. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Massachusetts Exhibit of Colonial Books At the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, 1607-1907. Boston: Priv. Print, 1907. Call #: 686.09 MAS

New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition (1907). Historical Exhibit of New York State at Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Va., April 26-December 1, 1907; An Explanatory List of Articles, Replete with Chronological Material That Will Guide the Visitor and Furnish a Useful Reference to the Student of American History. [Albany]: [J.B. Lyon Company, State printers], 1907. Call #: 974.7 NEW

New York (State) and Cuyler Reynolds. New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907. Albany, N.Y.: J.B. Lyon Co., Printers, 1909. Call #: 974.7 NEW

Organizational Reports:

Confederate States of America, William M. Myers, and Robert N. Rowsey. The Glorious March to the Sea. The Story of the Record-Breaking March of One Hundred and Thirty-Four Miles in Five Days by the Richmond Howitzers to the Jamestown Exposition, June, 1907. Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1907. Call #: 975.5425 CON

United Commercial Travelers of America. Souvenir Celebrating the Eleventh Annual Session, Grand Council, Kentucky, Virginias, Maryland and District of Columbia, U.C.T. of America Commemorating Jamestown Exposition. Norfolk, VA: Old Dominion Council, 298, 1907. Call #: 975.5 UNI

Pictorial Pamphlets:

Jamestown Official Photograph Corporation. Scenes at the Jamestown Exposition: With Historic Sites in Old Virginia. New York: Press of I.H. Blanchard Co., 1907. Call #: 917.55 JAM

Jamestown Official Photograph Corporation. The Jamestown Exposition Beautifully Illustrated; Photographs Made with Georz Lenses. New York: Press of I.H. Blanchard Co., 1907. Call #: 975.5425 JAM

Laird & Lee, Publishers. Glimpses of the Jamestown Exposition and Picturesque Virginia; Original Photographs Graphically Reproduced, Depicting the Most Unique Exposition Ever Held on American Soil. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1907. Call #: 975.5425 GLI

Speeches:

Halsey, Don P. The Limits of Centralization. The Address of Hon. Don P. Halsey of the Lynchburg Bar Before the Virginia State Bar Association at the Inside Inn, Jamestown Exposition, July 30, 1907. Richmond: Richmond Press, 1907. Call #: 342.73 HAL

Williams, John Skelton. Address: Delivered Richmond Day July 18, 1907 at the Jamestown Exposition. [Richmond, Va.]: [Richmond Press], 1907. Call #: 975.5451 WIL

Government Records:

Jamestown Exposition Minute Books (MSS 0000-175) – Typed ledgers of minutes and reports for the Jamestown Exposition various governing boards. (SMC Vault)

Norfolk City Council Minutes (on microfilm)

Norfolk Public Schools School Board Minutes (on microfilm)

1907 Aerial Oblique Postcard of Jamestown Exposition and Hampton Roads harbor. Maps: (See staff for access)

A Progressive Map: Jamestown Exposition On Hampton Roads Virginia Plan of Exposition Grounds and Buildings, 1907 February 1 SMC Map Collection - Folder 29, Item 13

Progress Map, Jamestown Exposition on Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1907 June 1 SMC Map Collection – Folder 62, Item 2

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Database (ProQuest) – Norfolk, Virginia April 1907 (2 sheets) Online Database at NPL

Periodicals:

Newspapers: (on microfilm)

• Daily Press (Hampton/Newport News, VA) • Hampton Monitor (Hampton, VA) • Norfolk Landmark (Norfolk, VA) • Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (Norfolk, VA) • Peninsula Enterprise (Accomack County, VA) • Portsmouth Star (Portsmouth, VA) • Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)

Magazines:

• The Confederate Veteran Magazine. Bound Periodicals section • Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition. Jamestown Magazine. Norfolk, VA: A. Hess, 1906. Call #: 975.54251 JAM • The Jamestown Bulletin. Norfolk, VA: Woman's Jamestown Association, etc., 1904. Bound Periodicals section

Photographs: (See staff for access)

• Sargeant Memorial Collection Postcard Collection, circa 1900-1980 (MSS 0000-PCC)

• William R. Hudnall Photograph Collection, circa 1898-1930 (MSS 0000-593)

• Isabella and Carroll Walker Photograph Collection (MSS 0000-243)

Special Collections: (See staff for access)

• Caroline Doonan's Jamestown Exposition Collection, 1907 (MSS 0000-177) Ephemera, other printed materials, and memorabilia from 1907 Jamestown Exposition.

• Feasibility Study of Restoration of Flag Officer's Quarters (MSS 0000-176) Documents related to the restoration of surviving Jamestown Exposition buildings now Flag Officers’ homes on the Naval Base.

• Norfolk Public Schools Jamestown Exposition Exhibit Books (RG 16 0000-001) Contains works by students showcased in exhibit at 1907 Jamestown Exposition.

• and Ohio to the Jamestown Exposition Brochure (MSS 2016-050)

• Jamestown Exposition Collection (MSS 0000-131) Ephemera, other printed materials, and memorabilia from 1907 Jamestown Exposition.

• Jim Bradshaw Norfolk Memorabilia Collection (MSS 2015-019) Ephemera, other printed materials, and memorabilia from 1907 Jamestown Exposition.

• Virginia War History Commission, Norfolk, Virginia Records (MSS 0000-182) Contains the general layout of 1919 Norfolk Naval Base and photographs of buildings including those still standing from 1907 Jamestown Exposition. Box 16: Organizational Reports – Folder 3: Reports, Item # 1 Photographs Box 19: Oversized Materials, 1919 – Folder 2 Map, Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1919

Secondary Sources:

Costa, Tom. An Illustrated History of the Jamestown Exposition. [Norfolk]: [Hampton Roads Naval Museum], 2000. Call #: 975.5425 ILL

Maloney, Cathy Jean. World's Fair Gardens: Shaping American Landscapes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. Call # 635 MAL (Slover’s General Non-Fiction)

Rydell, Robert W., John E. Findling, and Kimberly D. Pelle. Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States. Washington D.C.: Press, 2000. Call # 907.473 RYD (Slover’s General Non-Fiction)

Yarsinske, Amy Waters. Jamestown Exposition: American Imperialism on Parade. Vol. 1. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 1999. Call #: 975.5425 YAR v. 1

Yarsinske, Amy Waters. Jamestown Exposition: American Imperialism on Parade. Vol. 2. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 1999. Call #: 975.5425 YAR v. 2

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Sewell’s Point Sewell’s 1907 Map of Jamestown Exposition at at Exposition Jamestown of Map 1907