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[N.Y. - Buffalo - Pan American Expo. - panoramic view, with Electric Tower in center] – Vintage Photo Print

[N.Y. - Buffalo - Pan American Expo. - panoramic view, with Electric Tower in center], c1901. — historic photograph
[N.Y. - Buffalo - Pan American Expo. - panoramic view, with Electric Tower in center], c1901.. Historic photograph from the Buffalo collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [N.Y. - Buffalo - Pan American Expo. - panoramic view, with Electric Tower in center], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The panoramic view centers on the Electric Tower, the illuminated landmark of the Pan-American Exposition, which opened in Buffalo in May 1901 on the grounds of a former Delaware Park site. Its nighttime lighting drew large crowds and made the tower the fair's signature image. The exposition closed early that September after President William McKinley was shot at the fairgrounds and died days later. The record credits the photograph's copyright to C.D. Arnold, and its date and caption details are unverified, so the wider view is best read as a record of the fair's layout during its brief run.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsFormerly filed as Oversize Miscellaneous, B size. Photo copyrighted by C.D. Arnold. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Exhibitions--New York (St.).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,244 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125087

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