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Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition buildings: Fairmount park Philadelphia – Antique Map Print

Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition buildings: Fairmount park Philadelphia, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875. — antique lithograph
Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition buildings: Fairmount park Philadelphia, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875.. Antique lithograph 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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Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition buildings: Fairmount park Philadelphia comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Drawn from an elevated vantage point, this hand-colored lithograph lays out the whole Fairmount Park site in Philadelphia before the 1876 Centennial Exhibition opened. Currier & Ives issued it in New York in 1875, when the grounds were still taking shape for the fair that marked the nation's hundredth anniversary. The exhibition's large halls, including the main exhibition building and Machinery Hall, were meant to show American industry and invention to millions of visitors. Looking at the layout today, you can see how the fair was organized around these buildings, and how much of the park's design was built to hold them.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0593.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,327 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174144

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