A simple Google search of Jamestown Exposition rendered numerous web sites including
this:
http://www.rkpuma.com/ov/nickel22expo.htm
which has at least one image of a marching band playing at the opening.
Bruce Terrell
----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Cabell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006 11:15 am
Subject: Re: Photos of Jamestown 1907 Exposition
> Thank you Bruce and Ed Terrell for suggestions. But I must admit
> that from
> the vantage point of several hundred miles from Tidewater, it is
> dauntingfor me to even think about trying to find the right
> building (or even get
> on?) the Naval Base at Norfolk. But we are going to be in Hampton
> thisweekend for Christening of a granddaughter, so I shall inquire.
>
> Your notes about the "Pennsylvania Building" and Admiral's row
> brings back
> fond, though distant memories. My father was army liason officer
> with the
> Fifth Naval District during most of WWII and we lived on the base.
> I well
> remember Admiral's row, and the PA house was the officers club. I
> played on
> the golf course in front of Admiral's row, and recall 40mm
> antiaircraft guns
> around the perimeter of the golf course. YE GODS!!!!!
> 40mm!!!!!!! Those
> things could only shoot a few thousand yards, so I don't know where
> theyexpected swarms of Stukas to originate. Years later, I went to
> graduatebusiness school with a guy who served in the Navy there as
> some sort of base
> maintenance officer. That was in the middle 1950's. He reported
> how very
> difficult it was to keep those big houses functioning, since they
> had been
> built only to survive the 1907 exposition, but were still housing
> admirals50 years later. It is now 100 years later. Are they still
> there, or
> perhaps completely rebuilt?
>
> Randy Cabell - Master at strolls down memory lane(s)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Terrell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Photos of Jamestown 1907 Exposition
>
>
> >I believe that the Hampton Roads Naval Museum at Nauticus in
> Norfolk has a
> >collection
> > pertaining to
> > the 1907 Jamestown Exposition. The Exposition grounds served as the
> > foundation of the
> > Norfolk
> > seaplane base and later naval base at Sewell's Point. I briefly
> served as
> > archaeologist and
> > ass't. curator
> > there in the 1980s when the museum was located in the Pennsylvania
> > building. All of the
> > buildings on
> > todays "Admiral's Row" were Exposition buildings.
> > Bruce Terrell
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006 9:21 am
> > Subject: Re: Photos of Jamestown 1907 Exposition
> >
> >> Have you searched the Library of Virginia website catalogue?
> Virginia>> Historical Society website catalogue - or checked with the
> >> Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation?
> >>
> >> > Things are falling into place for my Jamestown projects. Thanks
> >> to the
> >> > Library of Virginia, I have six outstanding color covers of piano
> >> music,> and will put them into a package with the music itself.
> >> >
> >> > Dr. David Diggs at Lehich University will make a CD of music from
> >> > celebrations of 1807, 1907, and 2007 (the latter so far is only
> >> my march
> >> > THE TRUMPETER OF JAMESTOWN). And that brings up a question.
> >> >
> >> > We would like to put some appropriate picture on the cover,
> >> probably of
> >> > the 1907 celebration. I have one and have seen a second book
> on the
> >> > Exposition, and there are a wealth of photos in both. Can
> >> anybody tell me
> >> > where those photos reside, and if I can browse through them and
> >> see if
> >> > there is a good one for the CD jacket?
> >> >
> >> > Also I would appreciate any other suggestions for a color
> >> painting or such
> >> > which might be appropriate for jacket.
> >> >
> >> > I have completed a one-page FANFARES for THE TRUMPTER OF
> >> JAMESTOWN and
> >> > shall be glad to mail it to anybody who needs (or just wants)
> some>> > fanfares which are typical of that time, and who knows....
> part>> of which
> >> > may have been played by that elusive trumpeter.
> >> >
> >> > Randy Cabell
> >> >
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> >> >
> >>
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