Bird's eye view, Centennial Buildings, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 antique lithograph of Bird's eye view, Centennial Buildings, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bird's eye view, Centennial Buildings, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
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Seen from a high vantage point, this color lithograph lays out the Centennial Buildings across Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, the grounds prepared for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition. H.J. Toudy & Co. published the view around 1875, in the years before the fair opened, to give the public a sense of the site's scale. The exhibition marked the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and drew millions of visitors to the park along the Schuylkill River. Bird's-eye views like this one were a popular way to show such large sites at a glance.
| Created / published | Philadelphia, Pa. : Published by H.J. Toudy & Co., c1875. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | 2648g(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.J. Toudy & Co. |
| Subjects | Centennial Exhibition--(1876 :--Philadelphia, Pa.) Exhibitions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,643 × 3,761 px · prints to 15 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220813 |
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