World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, Ill.)

Scope and Contents Entries begin with leaving Knoxville to attend the Columbian Exposition/World’s Fair in Chicago Last entry for her 31st birthday Nov. 15, 1898. Ida Jolly Crawley (1867-1946) was born in Pond Creek, Tennessee. In addition to being an artist, she was also a writer, lecturer, and amateur anthropologist. She founded the Crawley Museum of Art and Archaeology in her home on Park Avenue in Asheville, North Carolina. She studied at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D. C. and in Germany and...

Scope and Contents The collection contains photographs, tintypes, a carte de visite album, a hand-stitched, woven alphabetical organizer, and various financial records including receipts, promissory notes, court judgements, and ledger scraps. Some of the photographs are identified, including a photograph of Rogersville Female Academy’s faculty and student body, and one of students and their instructor holding musical instruments. Another photograph depicts the Shenandoah Normal College baseball team. Most of...

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World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; 1st May to 30th October 1893. ;