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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"King Cotton."”.
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Remolding Mexican Identity: The Wax Art of Francisco Vargas in 19th Century New Orleans
… Commissioner R. H. Henry to produce the 30-foot King Cotton for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Though the family's success continued after Francisco's death, an examination into the family's business, artworks, travels, and personal connections during …
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Read it out loud : the construction of Southern identity within the living newspaper plays of the Federal Theatre Project.
… South. The final living newspaper discussed is King Cotton, a regional piece written by the unit at Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Though written by non-Southerners, the style is distinctly of the region. This play offers a more authentic look at Southern identity through the blending of two …
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Politics, patriotism, pageantry : performing power at the Texas Cotton Palace, 1910-1930.
This study specifically examines the Texas Cotton Palace Exposition of 1910-1930 as a performative event reflecting, endorsing, and reinforcing cultural attitudes and priorities of select groups within the Waco community. The Cotton Palace in those years was an expansive exhibition, incorporating …
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The struggle for recognition by the Confederate States of America
… war period. Two indispensable secondary sources, King Cotton Diplomacy by F. L. Owsley, and Great Britain and the American Civil War by E. D. Adams, were secured from the State Loan Library at Austin. Findings The first efforts of the South after secession were directed toward negotiating with the …