Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, Tenn., 1897: Auditorium – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, Tenn., 1897: Auditorium. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, Tenn., 1897: Auditorium
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Held in Nashville in 1897 to mark a century of Tennessee statehood, the Tennessee Centennial Exposition drew crowds to a fairground of temporary exhibition halls. This stereo card shows the Auditorium, the large hall built to hold big crowds for ceremonies and programs. Stereographs like this one, issued by the Keystone View Company from a negative by B.L. Singley, let home viewers see such scenes in three dimensions through a hand viewer. The card's catalog tags also list Illinois, a reminder that the exposition drew visitors and exhibitors from well beyond Tennessee.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 7004. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Tenn.--Nashville; Tenn.--Hist--1897; Illinois--Hist--1897; Centennials; Exh.--1897. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,530 × 1,686 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142054 |
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