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Pennsylvania RR Centennial Depot and main entrance to Exhibition – Vintage Print

Pennsylvania RR Centennial Depot and main entrance to Exhibition — antique engraving
Pennsylvania RR Centennial Depot and main entrance to Exhibition. Antique engraving from the World's Fairs 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: Pennsylvania RR Centennial Depot and main entrance to Exhibition, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Centennial Depot served the main entrance to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, which opened in Fairmount Park that May to mark a century since the Declaration of Independence. This wood engraving appeared in *Scientific American* on May 27, 1876, within weeks of the fair's opening. Wood engraving was the standard way to illustrate weekly newspapers and magazines at the time, so the print shows how the fair was presented to readers far from Philadelphia. Railroads were central to the event, since many visitors arrived by train.

Medium1 print : wood engraving.
Notes1876
SubjectsIllus. in The Scientific American, 1876 May 27, p. 345. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exhib; Railroads--Stations; Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Rr; Bridges; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,285 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128557

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