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Rare Southern Exposition. Substantial b

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Rare Southern Exposition. Substantial b
Rare Southern Exposition. Substantial bound volume, New York at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 1895. 71/2 x 103/4, 302 pp., stylishly gold-stamped cover, wine leatherette, floral endpapers, cream enamel text. Photographs, index. Printed by (N.Y.) State Printers, 1896. "Atlanta, as the capital of the Empire State of the South...justly regarded itself as the proper place for holding an Exposition which should reveal the rapid progress being made in the heart of the New South in the arts and industries which accompany the onward march of civilization...." Sections on architectural features of Cotton States Exposition; contributions of women; colonial, Revolutionary War, and historical relics loaned by N.Y., including documents, books, and clothing; discussion of blacks, their industrial training, voting, and integration; Manhattan Day at the Expo, and much more. "The old Union feeling that existed before the War, nowhere stronger than in the southern States, has revived...." Lengthy address of Booker T. Washington at opening of Exposition. Full-page photo of "Negro Building," with extensive text, "without doubt the most interesting feature of the Exposition... Nothing like it has ever been seen at any former exhibition...It marks the rise of the black man...." Description of electric trolley used at Coney Island, invented by Granville Woods, "...an indication of the immense advance which has been made by the negro race...." "Queer Types of Humanity" seen at the Fair, including the Georgia "cracker," Japanese, "phlegmatic Germans," "vivacious Italians," and "Afro-Americans" an early use of this term. "The negroes are as happy-go-lucky and careless as ever...." Minor blemish at edge of beveled board, cloth worn at lower hinge, else V.G. Fascinating.