EEpbE't OF Boaeb of "Womkn Managkes. 1T7 



that these pages should be bound and placed on exhibition. The book 

 rested on a ta,bTe bookbaSe in the south record rOora of the Woman's 

 Building during the exposition, and lias since been renioved with the 

 other records to the State Library. 



The Afro- American exhibit was a varied collection of articles, chiefly 

 the handiwork of colorted women with a few interesting loans. The case 

 in which it was exhibited was fur nii^hed for th6 purposb by the ISTatidnal 

 Board, who desired to show their interest, and stood in the southwest 

 room leading from the gallery of the Woman's Building. The statuette 

 of " Hiawatha " by Edtoonia Lewis, a colored woman sculptor of note, 

 was with some difficulty obtained as a loan by Miss Howard, aided by 

 the chairman of the executivfe committee, from the Boston Young 

 Men's Christian Association, and this wa^ shown in the library. 



The only theft from any of the New York exhibits was made from 

 the Afro- American collection. The door of one of the cases was 

 found open one morning in July and a gold chain with ear-rings and 

 brooch extracted. The occurrence was at once reported to the depart- 

 ment of secret service, but the thief was never detected, and, therefore, 

 the articles were never recovered. The board regretted the loss and 

 felt that the exposition aiithorities should makte restitution to the owner. 

 President Higinbotham was addressed on the subject, and half the 

 valiie of the exhibit, which was placed at $210, was obtained from the 

 exposition compaiiy, the board of women managers paying the owner 

 the remainder. The Afro- American exhibit received an award. 



Committee ok the Colonial and Revolutionaey Exhibit. 



Mrs. Ralph Trautman, ISTew York's representative on the ]!^ational 

 board, informed the State board, at the meeting held in September, 

 1892, that a committee had been formed, for the purpose of preparing 

 a colonial exhibit for the exposition. She told the ladies that in order 

 to make the collection a success the State boards would have to cd-op- 

 erate by organizing committees. The matter was not acted upon at 

 once, in fact the members of the board felt themselves already suffi- 

 ciently taxed, but later Mrs. F. E,. Jones, who was asked to fill a 

 vacancy on the Women's Board, was invited and, consented to take com- 

 plete charge of the colonial exhibit, asking an appropriation of $10,000. 

 As she had no definite idea of the cost of such an exhibit; but knew 

 the charges for insurance would be heavy, the executive committee, 

 although anxious to aid Mrs. Jones in every way, felt that $10,000, 

 being one-sixth of the entire amount at their disposal, was too large a 

 sura for one exhibit. Several of the mdmbers so expressed themselves 

 to Mr. Thacher, adding that the executive committee felt that $5,000 

 was all it could afford as an appropriation from the Women's Board, and 

 asking that the Bdard of G-endral Managers shoiild sharfe the expense of 

 the exhibit ; this Mr. Thabhfer agreed should be done, sayih^, if $10,000 

 was needed, the second $5,000 should be furnished by his bdard. , 



It was at first intended that the exhibit should oUly oCciipy a show- 

 case, filling one arch in the rotunda of thd Government Building, but as 

 it outgrew this space, it was divided into two parts — those objects 

 which had distinct historical associatidiis ahd valiie being shown in the 



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