above. So none of us are surprised to find few women in this
line of exhibitors. My work as a member of the department jury
confined me to one room, and to an inspection of lists submitted
by the group jurors. So I really had no opportunity for specific
examination of the various groups and classes, except where some
doubt was expressed as to the validity of an award, when I made
it a point to examine that subject with more or less care. Many
women placed specimens of clay and ore in their State
collections. Several Georgia women, I know, did this--some,
though owning and operating mines, and active in submitting
specimens, took shelter under the husband's name. This fact also
came under my own observation.

Nearly all these exhibits were in group 116, class 682. One
collection of clays and pottery produced in the interest of
artistic handicraft came from the Sophie Newcombe Memorial
College for the higher education of girls, of New Orleans, La.,
and was in the same group, but class 690. Many like collections
were seen in the Educational Building, but this is the only one
given space in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy.

The Woman's Club of Pipestone, Minn., showed specimens of
pipestone and jasper belonging to group 116, class 682. In the
whole list I find only two foreigners--one from Toronto, Canada,
and the other from Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, both such near
neighbors to our own country as hardly to seem foreign. The one
making exhibition from Mexico, Esther Lopez, is associated with
a man, Hernano, brother or husband, I presume. Group 118 devoted
to metallurgy, had only one woman exhibitor, Mrs. Abbie Krebs,
San Francisco, Cal., who submitted redwood tanks for an award.

I do not recall any award made to a woman in the Department of
Mines and Metallurgy. Many mercantile houses and large
corporations were competitors, and, as I said before, many women
sent their specimens to their respective State exhibits, and so
increased the chances of the State to an award.

The fine Alaskan exhibition in the Alaska Building was collated,
I understand, by a woman. I did not see it and did not learn the
woman's name, though I made an effort to do so.

From my observation, I think the work of the women would have
been better appreciated and the effect more pronounced had th