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Glimpse of the Centennial buildings across Girard Avenue Bridge [Philadelphia] – Vintage Photo Print

Glimpse of the Centennial buildings across Girard Avenue Bridge [Philadelphia], 1876 — antique engraving
Glimpse of the Centennial buildings across Girard Avenue Bridge [Philadelphia], 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Glimpse of the Centennial buildings across Girard Avenue Bridge [Philadelphia]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Glimpse of the Centennial buildings across Girard Avenue Bridge [Philadelphia]

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Girard Avenue Bridge, which spans the Schuylkill River toward the fairgrounds, gives this wood engraving its vantage point on the Centennial buildings. It appeared in *Harper's Weekly* on May 6, 1876, days before the Centennial Exhibition opened in Fairmount Park that month to mark a century since the Declaration of Independence. For many readers outside Philadelphia, engravings like this one were their first look at the fair's large exhibition halls, and the view shows how the new structures rose above the river landscape.

Created / published1876
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1876 May 6, p. 372. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa.--Phila.--BRIDGES; Pa.--Phila.--VIEWS--1876; Exhibitions--1876; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,254 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131102

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