Our Centennial - Memorial Hall - Pres. Grant declaring the Exhibition open – 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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A window into the past: Our Centennial - Memorial Hall - Pres. Grant declaring the Exhibition open, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Our Centennial - Memorial Hall - Pres. Grant declaring the Exhibition open
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Memorial Hall, one of the few permanent structures from the 1876 Centennial Exposition, anchors this view of President Ulysses S. Grant formally declaring the fair open. The exposition in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, marked the nation's 100th anniversary and drew large crowds to its exhibition halls. This image is a lantern slide copied from a wood engraving that originally ran in an illustrated newspaper, so it reflects how the event was pictured for a reading public that could not attend in person.
| Created / published | 1 lantern slide. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1876 |
| Subjects | Lantern slide copy of wood engraving from illustrated newspaper, 1876. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Expos.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; President. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,226 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125993 |
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