The Centennial - State HQ on State Ave. – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of The Centennial - State HQ on State Ave.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Centennial - State HQ on State Ave.
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State Avenue at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was lined with buildings erected by individual states and territories, which served as gathering places and offices for their visitors. This wood engraving, published in *Harper's Weekly* on June 3, 1876, shows one of these headquarters while the fair was in its first weeks. The Centennial marked a century since the Declaration of Independence, and the weekly's engravers, working from sketches and photographs, gave readers far from Fairmount Park a detailed view of the grounds.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraved scenes of the Phila. Centennial Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1876 June 3. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions--1876; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131341 |
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