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[Crowd in front of building at the opening ceremonies of the centennial in Philadelphia, 1876. Band playing Wagner's Centennial March] – Vintage Photo Print

[Crowd in front of building at the opening ceremonies of the centennial in Philadelphia, 1876. Band playing Wagner's Centennial March], [1876] — antique engraving
[Crowd in front of building at the opening ceremonies of the centennial in Philadelphia, 1876. Band playing Wagner's Centennial March], [1876]. Antique engraving from the Philadelphia 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: [Crowd in front of building at the opening ceremonies of the centennial in Philadelphia, 1876. Band playing Wagner's Centennial March], preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few openings drew as much public attention as the one that launched the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and this wood engraving shows a crowd gathered before a building as a band plays Wagner's Centennial March. The exhibition, held in Fairmount Park, marked the nation's hundredth year and showcased American industry and invention to visitors from around the world. *Harper's Weekly* published the scene in late May, while the grounds were still filling with crowds. Worth noticing is how densely the spectators packed the approach, a sign of the enormous interest the fair generated.

Created / published[1876]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's Weekly (1876 May 27). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127238

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