Details
Creator Centennial Photographic Co.
Title [Martha Maxwell and her exhibit of "Woman's Work", Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Centennial Photographic Co
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date c1876
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen mounted on stereograph mount ; 10.5 x 18 cm. (4.25 x 7 in.)
Description Shows Mrs. Martha Maxwell surrounded by her habitat display, with stuffed animals and birds, arranged in a rocky landscape in the Kansas-Colorado Building at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.
Is part of International Exhibition, 1876.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer, from a description of a duplicate in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's collections, reproduced in Maxine Benson's Martha Maxwell: Rocky Mountain naturalist (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1986).
Martha Maxwell opened her Rocky Mountain Museum in 1874 in Boulder, Colorado, and moved it to Denver in 1876. She hoped her museum would advance scientific education, but also display curiosities and other amusements to attract the general public.
See Maxine Benson's Martha Maxwell: Rocky Mountain Naturalist (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1986).
For a similar view of Martha Maxwell's displays, see stereo - unidentified - Exhibitions [P.2007.12].
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Maxwell, Martha, 1831-1881 -- Portraits.
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Animals.
Birds.
Natural history.
Taxidermy.
Exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
SP1 Women.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. - Maxwell's Rocky Mountain Museum [P.2007.15.1]
Accession number P.2007.15.1