Author: United States. Centennial Board of Finance
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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Third Annual Report of the Centennial Board of Finance to the Stockholders
Author: United States. Centennial Board of Finance
Publisher:
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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Designing the Centennial
Author: Bruno Giberti
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813181488
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity—the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of this movement was a shift in the perceived relationship between seeing and knowing and in the perception of what makes an object valuable—its usefulness as a subject of study and learning versus its ability to be bought and sold on the market. Arguments over design of the Centennial reflected these opposing viewpoints. Initial plans were rigidly structured, dividing the exhibits by country and type. But as some exhibitors became more interested in the preferences of their audience, they adopted a more modern stance. Objects traditionally displayed in isolated glass boxes were placed in fictive context—the necklace draped over a mannequin, the vase set on a table in a model room. As a result, the audience could more easily perceive these items as commodities suitable for their own environments and the fair as a place to find ideas for a material lifestyle. Designing the Centennial is a vital first look at the design process and the nature of the display. Bruno Giberti uses official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to illuminate how the 1876 fair revealed changes to come: in future world's fairs, museums, department stores, and in the nature of display itself.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813181488
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity—the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of this movement was a shift in the perceived relationship between seeing and knowing and in the perception of what makes an object valuable—its usefulness as a subject of study and learning versus its ability to be bought and sold on the market. Arguments over design of the Centennial reflected these opposing viewpoints. Initial plans were rigidly structured, dividing the exhibits by country and type. But as some exhibitors became more interested in the preferences of their audience, they adopted a more modern stance. Objects traditionally displayed in isolated glass boxes were placed in fictive context—the necklace draped over a mannequin, the vase set on a table in a model room. As a result, the audience could more easily perceive these items as commodities suitable for their own environments and the fair as a place to find ideas for a material lifestyle. Designing the Centennial is a vital first look at the design process and the nature of the display. Bruno Giberti uses official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to illuminate how the 1876 fair revealed changes to come: in future world's fairs, museums, department stores, and in the nature of display itself.
The Road
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Industrial Statistics
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Category : Industrial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Industrial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Catalogue of the Astor Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Report
Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Industrial Statistics
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
The National Centennial
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368844377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368844377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Senate documents
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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