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[Exhibit displays at Centennial Exhibition, Phila.: Mt. Washington Glassworks display #274-] – Antique Print

[Exhibit displays at Centennial Exhibition, Phila.: Mt. Washington Glassworks display #274-], c1876. — historic photograph
[Exhibit displays at Centennial Exhibition, Phila.: Mt. Washington Glassworks display #274-], c1876.. Historic photograph 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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Glassware fills the shelves in this stereograph of the Mt. Washington Glassworks display at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the 1876 fair that marked the nation's hundredth birthday in Fairmount Park. The Massachusetts firm used the exhibition to show its pressed and decorative glass to a huge audience of American and foreign visitors. Stereo cards like this one, sold in pairs and viewed through a stereoscope, were a popular way for people far from Philadelphia to tour the fair's exhibits from their parlors.

Created / publishedc1876.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,358 × 1,686 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126517

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