Thank you to our expert panelists for pointing us to the following resources, where you can learn more about race and Buffalo’s 1901 Pan-American Exposition.
The slideshow from the 4/16/26 program can be viewed HERE.
Website
“Doing the Pan…” (created by Susan Eck)
Mabel Barnes’ Pan-Am Scrapbooks
digitally-preserved by The Buffalo History Museum
- Vol. 1: Peeps at the Pan American, vol. 1 : Barnes, Mabel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Vol. 2: Peeps at the Pan American, vol. 2 : Barnes, Mabel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Vol. 3: Peeps at the Pan American, vol. 3 : Barnes, Mabel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
From the Library of Congress
- African American Photographs Assembled [by W.E.B. Du Bois] for 1900 Paris Exposition
- Edison Films Relating to the Pan-American Expo
Articles
- “Doing the Pan: The African American Experience at the Pan American Exposition, 1901,” in Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 28, No. 1, January 2004 (23-41).
- “An Uncrowned Hero: The Untold Story of James Benjamin Parker,” Western New York Heritage Magazine, Volume 20, No. 4, Winter, 2018.
Books
- All the World’s A Fair, by Robert W. Rydell
- Ephemeral Vistas, by Paul Greenhalgh
- The Anthropology of World’s Fairs, by Burton Benedict
- Whose Fair? by James Gilbert
- Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs & Museums, by Mabel Wilson
- Wild West Shows & the Image of American Indians, 1883-1933, by L.G. Moses
- The Electrifying Fall of the Rainbow City, by Margaret Creighton