Birds eye view of Philadelphia & centennial grounds – Antique Wall Map
(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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Step back in time with Birds eye view of Philadelphia & centennial grounds, a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Birds eye view of Philadelphia & centennial grounds
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Looking down over Philadelphia from an elevated vantage point, this view also sweeps across the Centennial grounds in Fairmount Park, which were being readied for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition. That world's fair marked a century since the Declaration of Independence and drew roughly ten million visitors. Bird's-eye panoramas like this one were a popular format in the 1870s, letting viewers take in a whole city and its fairgrounds at once. The associated name Bachmann comes from an unverified shelflist card, so treat the attribution as tentative.
| Created / published | c1875. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | F12466 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bachmann. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,088 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129526 |
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