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1913-36 “Negro Buildings” at Fairs and Expositions

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1913-36 “Negro Buildings” at Fairs and Expositions

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Heading: (1913-36 Negro displays at Fairs and Expositions)
Author:
Title: Scarce postcards of "Negro Buildings” at Tennessee and Texas Expositions, and a related racist Virginia letter
Place Published: Knoxville, Tenn., Dallas, Tx. and Jamestown (Virginia).
Publisher:
Date Published: 1913-36
Description:

2 unused pictorial postcards: "Negro Building...National Conservation Exposition Grounds", (Knoxville, Tenn., 1913) and "Hall of Negro Life at Texas Centennial Exposition" (Dallas, 1936). And used postcard showing an unrelated scene from the Jamestown (Virginia) Exposition of 1907 with handwritten message on verso by a New York visitor: "The darkies know their place all right down here..." (See also the listings below from the 1940 American Negro Exposition)

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1913-36 “Negro Buildings” at Fairs and Expositions

Name: 1913-36 “Negro Buildings” at Fairs and Expositions
SKU: 33605888
Price: 40 USD
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