Images of a Smithsonian display showing European settlers in a ship meeting Native Americans in a canoe, made at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition in 1907.
The Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition was held in Norfolk, Virginia, from April 26 to December 1, 1907, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. The display depicted in this collection represents a trading expedition by Captain John Smith at the mouth of the James River in 1607. It was designed by William Henry Holmes and executed by H. W. Hendley and U. S. J. Dunbar.
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Photo Lot 89-6, Underwood & Underwood photographs of Smithsonian exhibit at Jamestown Exposition, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
This may have been donated to the Smithsonian as a sample of a larger collection. Found in the Department of Anthropology Processing Lab by Sue Rowley and transferred to the National Anthroplogical Archives, 1988.
Original Underwood & Underwood stereographs, including additional images of the Jamestown Exposition, can be found in the National Museum of American History Archives Center in the Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, 1895-1921.
Additional photographs of this John Smith display can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, correspondence from Walter Hough.
Administrative files relating to the Jamestown Exposition can be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in SIA RU000192.
Photographs of Native Americans, made at the Jamestown Exposition, can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE glass negatives.
Additional Underwood & Underwood photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 90-1 and Photo Lot 8.