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The American Centennial celebrations - Temperance procession in Philadelphia – Vintage Print

The American Centennial celebrations - Temperance procession in Philadelphia — antique engraving
The American Centennial celebrations - Temperance procession in Philadelphia. 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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This rare antique engraving captures The American Centennial celebrations - Temperance procession in Philadelphia in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A temperance procession winding through Philadelphia on July 29, 1876, is the subject of this wood engraving, one of the many parades that filled the city during the Centennial year. That summer, Philadelphia was hosting the Centennial Exhibition in Fairmount Park, drawing crowds from across the country to mark the nation's hundredth birthday. Temperance societies, which had grown steadily since the 1870s, used such marches to show their numbers and press for limits on alcohol. Wood engravings like this one were commonly reproduced in illustrated weeklies, giving readers a view of street events they could not attend in person.

Medium1 print : wood engraving.
Notes1876 July 29.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,365 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122944

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