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The American Centennial Festival Exhibition: Scene in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia--Negro militia after drill – Historic Reproduction

The American Centennial Festival Exhibition: Scene in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia--Negro militia after drill, [1876] — antique engraving
The American Centennial Festival Exhibition: Scene in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia--Negro militia after drill, [1876]. Antique engraving from the World's Fairs collection.

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The American Centennial Festival Exhibition: Scene in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia--Negro militia after drill comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Published in the *Illustrated London News* in May 1876, this wood engraving shows a Black militia company resting in Fairmount Park after drill during the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The Exhibition opened that month on the park grounds to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and it drew large crowds from across the United States. The catalog card lists "Humor" among its subject tags, which suggests the artist meant a comic treatment of soldiers at leisure rather than a straight record of the unit. Readers should keep that framing in mind, since British illustrated papers of the period often viewed American subjects through a satirical lens.

Created / published[1876]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1876 May 13, p. 465. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Humor; African Americans--Miscellaneous; Expositions--1876; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,296 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127248

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