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Our Centennial - the rush for rooms at the Philadelphia Hotels – Vintage Wall Art

Our Centennial - the rush for rooms at the Philadelphia Hotels, [1876] — antique engraving
Our Centennial - the rush for rooms at the Philadelphia Hotels, [1876]. Antique engraving from the World's Fairs collection.

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Few places felt the Centennial's crowds more sharply than Philadelphia's hotels, and this *Harper's Weekly* cover from late May 1876 turns that pressure into a scene of scrambling for rooms. The Centennial Exhibition opened in Fairmount Park on May 10, 1876, to mark the nation's hundredth birthday, and the city had far fewer beds than the visitors arriving by rail. Charles Stanley Reinhart, a regular illustrator for Harper's, drew the design, which was engraved on wood for reproduction on the magazine's cover. The print offers a lively record of how the fair spilled into everyday life in the city.

Created / published[1876]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesWood engraving from a drawing by C.S. Reinhart. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly (1876 May 27), cover. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Hotels; Exhibitions; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,232 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127246

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