International Electrical Exhibition, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia – Historic Reproduction
(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: International Electrical Exhibition, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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International Electrical Exhibition, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
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This color poster advertises the International Electrical Exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, an institution named for the man whose experiments linked lightning to electricity. Printed by Burk & McFetridge in 1884, it dates from a period when electric light and the telephone were still novelties. Exhibitions like this one drew crowds to see arc and incandescent lamps and new electrical machinery in operation, and the bold color of the poster reflects how eagerly promoters presented electricity as the future.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : Burk & McFetridge, 1884. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 56 x 70 cm. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,122 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172599 |
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