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Panoramic photograph of a crowd watching an outdoor field event – Antique Photo Print

Panoramic photograph of a crowd watching an outdoor field event — historic photograph
Panoramic photograph of a crowd watching an outdoor field event. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs collection.

(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: Panoramic photograph of a crowd watching an outdoor field event, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Panoramic photograph of a crowd watching an outdoor field event

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Spread across the full width of the frame, the crowd rings an open field where an outdoor contest is underway, and the panoramic format lets the viewer take in the whole tiered mass of onlookers at once. The scene belongs to the Centennial, the 1876 celebration in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, held to mark a century since the Declaration of Independence. Those fairs drew large crowds to open-air grounds for sport, music, and demonstrations of new technology, and photographs like this one show how central spectatorship was to the public life of the era.

Original scan2,200 × 932 px · prints to 7 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceNY-West-Point-Centennial-19

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