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The Centennial: The Products of Iowa – Vintage Print

The Centennial: The Products of Iowa, 1876 — antique engraving
The Centennial: The Products of Iowa, 1876. Antique engraving from the World's Fairs collection.

(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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Iowa's farm products, arranged for display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, are the subject of this wood engraving. *Harper's Weekly* published it on November 11, 1876, on page 921, working from sketches by illustrator Theodore R. Davis, who drew many scenes from the fair for the magazine. Engravings like this let readers far from Philadelphia see the exhibits, including the agricultural displays that showed how far the Midwest's farming had grown. Agriculture was a major theme of the exposition, which marked the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Created / published1876
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsWood engraving from sketches by Theo. R. Davis. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1876 Nov. 11, p. 921. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Agriculture; Iowa; Exhibitions--1876; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,323 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130308

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