The American Centennial Exhibition: The Graphic Section"" – Vintage 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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The American Centennial Exhibition: The Graphic Section"" comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The American Centennial Exhibition: The Graphic Section""
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Rather than a view of the great exhibition halls, this wood engraving shows the Graphic Section of the American Centennial Exhibition, the part of the Philadelphia fair devoted to printing, publishing, and the reproduction of images. It appeared in *The London Graphic*, an illustrated weekly founded in London in 1869, in its 12 August 1876 issue, while the exhibition was still open. The fair ran from May to November 1876 to mark the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, and the British press followed it closely, so engravings like this one let readers in London see displays they could not visit themselves.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving in 'The London Graphic' 12 August 1876, p. 164. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Printing; Newspapers; Exhibitions--1876; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,280 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138902 |
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