1884 Cotton Exposition exhibit

The 1884 Cotton Exposition exhibit was a display and reception room created for the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was organized on behalf of the State of Alabama to showcase its natural resources and commercial products.

The primary sponsor and organizer of the exhibit was the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which had extended its service to New Orleans from Mobile just four years earlier. E. Spencer Pratt (later U.S. Consul to Persia) was appointed Commissioner of the Alabama exhibit. J. J. Barclay, Trustee of the Alabama Orphan School in Lawrence County was alternate commissioner. Pharmacist and amateur botanist Charles Mohr, author of The Forests of Alabama and Their Products, served as on-site representative.

Alabama erected a "headquarters" just off the southwest corner of the the large hall dedicated to the U.S. Government and its States and Territories. That building was completed in February 1885.

The state's exhibit was located in the left wing of the U.S. Building.