“1907 Souvenirs of Jamestown,” the latest exhibit at the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, explores the 1907 Ter-centennial Exposition, which celebrated the establishment in 1607 of the first permanent English settlement in America. Planned and promoted as a major tourist attraction on a par with the World’s Fair, the Jamestown Exposition was a grand national pageant, through which we can recognize turn-of-the-century popular ideas about nation, race, gender, class, progress and history. The 1907 Jamestown Exposition generated souvenirs and ephemera, many of which are on display through a generous loan from collector and area businessman Preston Coiner. The exhibit will be on view in the McIntire Building through the end of June.
Posted by river queen at 11:56 PM PDT
