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[Exhibit displays at Centennial Exhibition, Phila.: American Glassware #2217] – Vintage Print

[Exhibit displays at Centennial Exhibition, Phila.: American Glassware #2217], c1876. — historic photograph
[Exhibit displays at Centennial Exhibition, Phila.: American Glassware #2217], c1876.. Historic photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Exhibit displays at Centennial Exhibition, Phila.: American Glassware #2217]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This stereograph shows a display of American glassware at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the world's fair that opened in Fairmount Park in 1876 to mark the nation's hundredth birthday. Stereo cards like this one were sold as souvenirs and viewed through a stereoscope, which made the rows of cases and objects appear to stand out in three dimensions. The exhibition gave American manufacturers a chance to show pressed and cut glass beside European work, and images such as this preserve how those products were arranged for visitors. The card's caption data is unverified, so the exact exhibitor and display details are best checked against the original card.

Created / publishedc1876.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,414 × 1,686 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126520

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