National Museum of American History
Industry, Skill, Ingenuity: Southern Black Expositions, 1880-1915
February 2, 1988 – June 1, 1988
Featured is a display of objects from the Colored People's Industrial Exhibition at the Cotton Centennial in New Orleans (1884-1885). Included are household, industrial and craftspersons' tools, and photographs of some of the earliest Afro-American materials collected by the Smithsonian.
