The Centennial: View of state Avenue, Looking West – Vintage Photo Print
(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: The Centennial: View of state Avenue, Looking West, preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Centennial: View of state Avenue, Looking West
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Along State Avenue, one of the main walks through the Centennial grounds in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, the states had built their own pavilions, and this view looks west down that row. The engraving was cut from sketches by Theodore R. Davis, a Harper's Weekly illustrator who worked at the fair, and it ran in the magazine on November 11, 1876. The exhibition marked the nation's hundredth year, and wood engravings like this one gave readers far from Philadelphia a way to see its crowds and buildings. The record's caption notes are unverified, so the specific structures shown are worth checking against the magazine's text.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving from sketches by Theo. R. Davis. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1876 Nov. 11, p. 673. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Agriculture; Iowa; Exhibitions--1876; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,250 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130309 |
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