Details
Contributor Pan-American Exposition Co., publisher.
Title Ethnology Building. [graphic].
Publisher [Buffalo], Pan-American Exposition Co
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1901
Date c1901
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 13 x 8 cm.(5 x 3 in.)
Description Trade card issued for the world's fair held in Buffalo, N.Y., May 1-November 2, 1901 depicting the Ethnology Building built after the designs of George Cary. Shows fair visitors entering the classical-style building adorned with Renaissance decorative treatment, which housed ethnographic and archaeological exhibits of the Niagara area. Lewis Gibb and John Bucher formed Bucher & Gibbs in 1870.
Notes Copyrighted by the Pan-American Exposition Co.
Illustrated advertisement for "The Butcher & Gibbs Plow Co., Canton, Ohio. U.S.A." printed on verso. Illustration depicts a scene between a Butcher & Gibbs agent, with a plow, and a farmer declaring "The Imperial is the Best Plow in the World" surrounded by vignettes depicting a disc harrow, spring tooth harrow, spike tooth harrow, and one horse cultivator.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Michael Zinman.
Subject Bucher & Gibbs Plow Co.
Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) -- Buildings.
Agricultural machinery industry -- Ohio -- Canton.
Plows.
Harrows.
Genre Trade cards -- 1900-1910.
Chromolithographs -- 1900-1910.
Printer Pan-American Exposition Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.107]
Accession number P.2008.36.107