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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: Campbell Printing Press and Manufacturing Company
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Category : Fairs
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781390901689
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Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Excerpt from Something for the Children, or Uncle John's Story of His First Visit to the Centennial Uncle john! Carrie, Mary, and I have come in to have you tell us all about the big Show at Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John Henry Hepp
Publisher: Brookline Books
ISBN: 1955041032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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First book on the Centennial in nearly four decades, offering a new insight into this seminal event. The Centennial was America’s first world’s fair, taking place only twenty-five years after the first international exposition in London. The exhibition was a paean to progress by people fascinated by science and technology. The organizers—largely leading Pennsylvania industrialists and merchants—wanted to show the world that the United States was as advanced as any nation in Europe and for the most part their plan succeeded. Everyday Americans attended the fair to be reassured of their nation’s economic and technological past, present, and future. Mystery and Marvel looks at the 1876 Centennial Exposition through the eyes of the ten million visitors to the fair to help us understand the technological enthusiasm of middle-class Victorians. Although this enthusiasm was not unbounded and was occasionally tinged with a combination of nostalgia and uncertainty, overall the women and men of the late nineteenth century were usually happy to be part of a world they thought was as modern and as cutting edge as the one we live in today. In and around the buildings that appeared in the city’s Fairmount Park that spring and summer were the physical embodiments of this culture. The sights, the sounds, and even the smells of the exhibition presaged the coming of a modern America. In 1876 Philadelphia was the nation’s largest manufacturing city and Pennsylvania one of the most important industrial states. The exposition can serve as a wonderful lens to examine America’s shift from the young agricultural republic of 1800 to the industrial empire of 1900.

Author: Katharine Martinez
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566397919
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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In their day, from 1830 to 1930, the Sartain family of Philadelphia were widely admired as printmakers, painters, art administrators and educators. This collection of essays examines their achievements of three generations of Sartains, from John to his granddaughter Harriet.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Walter Barlow Stevens
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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Author: Henry Wells Hand
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Category : Nunda (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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