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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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York —Washington, Jay, Hamilton, Schuyler, Stuyvesant, Hudson, Fultonand a dozen others. Special effort was made to accomplish this; but became soserious an undertaking that it engrossed time without yielding results.It was a distinct feature which a special committee might havepursued. Gilbert Stuarts Washington, owned by Morris K. Jesup,Esq., of New York City was shown to the Director and personallyoffered by him as a loan; but when the delayed time came for installingthe States exhibit, the owner, having closed his city house and goneto Lenox, asked to be excused. The suddenness of this turn in eventswas graciously smoothed over by the Hon. Andrew Hamilton, wholoaned his oil portrait of Washington painted by Rembrandt Peale. The portrait of Stuyvesant hanging in the New York HistoricalBuilding was only a loan, and according to rules could not be per-mitted to leave the building. The New York Chamber of Commercedid not sanction the loan of its valuable, large portrait of Alexander
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PATROON KIL1AEN VAN RENSSELAER He bought from the Indians his important tract that included the site of Albany, N. Y., on July 27, 1630From oil portrait owned by Howard Van Rensselaer, M. D., Albany New York State History Exhibit 219 Hamilton, painted by Trumbull, nor would the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, next appealed to, loan theirs. The Municipal Art Commission in the City Hall, despite much kindness on the part of Mayo rMcClellan in escorting the Director on a tour of that building to see what of interest might be loaned, refused at its meeting to consider the appeal of the State for the painting supposedly a likeness of Columbus, and it may be said that in so doing they safeguarded the interests of the city for which they acted as custodians. Handicapped by Hardships There are a few pertinent reasons why the sending of an exhibit from this State was placed at a disadvantage which had to be over-come by the unusually laborious work of the Director, among them these: His appointment one mo

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