Centennial commemoration at Philadelphia July 4 1776-1876 – Historic Print
![Centennial commemoration at Philadelphia July 4 1776-1876, [1876] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/54/54e801b286ff-L.webp)
(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 vintage poster captures Centennial commemoration at Philadelphia July 4 1776-1876 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Centennial commemoration at Philadelphia July 4 1776-1876
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The poster's text sets a contrast at the center of its message: "Three millions of colonists on a strip by the sea" against "forty millions of freemen ruling from ocean to ocean." It marks the nation's 1876 centennial in Philadelphia, the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and it promotes the Centennial Exhibition that opened that spring in Fairmount Park. The exhibition drew millions of visitors and celebrated American industry and westward growth. Color woodcut posters like this one were a common way to advertise such events in the 1870s, and this example is notable for linking the nation's origins with its continental expansion.
| Created / published | [1876] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut ; 76 x 112 cm. |
| Genre | Exhibition posters American 1870-1880.Woodcuts Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Title continues: Three millions of colonists on a strip by the sea: Now forty millions of freemen ruling from ocean to ocean. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1998:093 |
| Subjects | Centennial Exhibition--(1876 :--Philadelphia, Pa.) Exhibitions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1870-1880. Centennial celebrations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1870-1880. Westward movement--1870-1880. United States--Territorial expansion. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,643 × 3,737 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221721 |
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