Giant see-saw, Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, Tenn., 1897 – Antique 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: Giant see-saw, Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, Tenn., 1897, preserved in this stereograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Giant see-saw, Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, Tenn., 1897
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A giant see-saw, a large amusement ride built for crowds, stands out among the sights at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition in Nashville in 1897. The fair marked 100 years since Tennessee became a state in 1796, and it drew visitors with exhibits, midway attractions and rides. This picture is a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, produced and sold such cards by the thousands, so the image reflects how fairgrounds life reached home parlors and schoolrooms at the end of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, manufacturers and publishers, c1897. |
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| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 52317C2 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 6094. |
| Subjects | Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition--(1897 :--Nashville, Tenn.) Amusement rides--Tennessee--Nashville--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 874 px · prints to 6 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169766 |
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