Exhibits: Search Room and Traveling
Searchroom Exhibits:
Maryland on the World's Stage: The 1893 Chicago World's Fair
The Maryland State Archives holds a small box documenting the State's involvement in the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Until recently, this box's contents were rarely viewed, if ever. Through this single box of records, supplemented with other fascinating items, we find a time capsule. Explore the construction and highlights of Maryland's pavilion, discover individual Marylanders' award-winning achievements, meet advocates fighting for more accurate representations of Maryland's diverse population. These items show how archival collections add further value to how we understand the people, places, and events of the past, and therefore inform how we view ourselves.
The exhibition can be viewed anytime during the Maryland State Archives' open hours. Visitors will be able to show a photo ID, sign in at our Lobby, and then explore the one-of-a-kind exhibition in our beautiful public Search Room. For questions about visiting, then please feel free to contact us.
Visitors also can learn more by checking out our article in the Archives' newsletter, The Clamshell, and watching our recorded Lunch and Learn talk.
Read The Clamshell article
Frazier, Rachel. "Maryland at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair." The Clamshell. Fall 2023, pgs. 14-20.
Watch the Virtual Talk
Lunch & Learn: Maryland at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Browse the Collection That Started It All
Board of World's Fair Managers (General File) 1890-1894.
S1998.
Available online
Traveling Exhibits:
Stories of Flight from Maryland
Currently on display at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center & Museum
The Stories of Flight from Maryland exhibit was created and designed between 2010 and 2011 in part to meet matching requirements of a U.S. Department of Education Office of Post Secondary Education Grant to study the Underground Railroad in five counties of Maryland's Eastern Shore, including Dorchester, Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot and Kent.
View the Stories of Flight Exhibit Online
To schedule this exhibit for your location, please contact Emily Oland Squires.
This web site is presented for reference purposes under the doctrine of fair use. When this material is used, in whole or in part, proper citation and credit must be attributed to the Maryland State Archives. PLEASE NOTE: The site may contain material from other sources which may be under copyright. Rights assessment, and full originating source citation, is the responsibility of the user.