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Contributor Craig, Finley & Co., printer.
Title Pennsylvania State Fair, Philadelphia, 1885. $41, 000 in premiums! Opens September 23d, closes October 14th. [graphic] : Manufactures, machinery, implements, produce, live stock.
Publisher Philadelphia : Craig, Finley & co., prs, 1020 Arch St
Date [1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 13 cm (3.5 x 5 in.)
Description Advertising card containing a montage of captioned vignettes depicting the fair buildings and heavily trafficked grounds at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue. Vignettes show the Main Building (Society of Arts); Poultry Agricultural Hall; Cattle Sheds; Restaurant; and Music Stand. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts."
Notes Advertising text on verso: 31st. Pennsylvania State Fair, 1885. The spacious building and fine grounds, Broad St. and Lehigh Ave., Phila'a. for all the purposes of a grand exhibition of American industry, In [sic] all its departments, are unsurpassed in the United States. The lofty Main Building and its Annexes are devoted to General Machinery and Manufactured Goods, under the management of the Society of arts, office and books of entry, 411 N. 18th St., George W. Fryer, secretary. The Agricultural, Horticultural and Poultry, as well as other Live Stock Buildings, are devoted to special agricultural machinery products and manufactures. Under the management of the Penna. State Agricultural Society, Office and Books of Entry, N. E. Cor., 18th and Market Sts. D. W. Seiler, Secretary, Cheap Excursion Fares on all railroads entering Philadelphia. Low special rates of transportation on all objects entered for exhibtion. Trains run to Fair Grounds without change. Books of entry close Sept. 16.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 288
See POSP 239, Free Library of Philadlephia - Oversize Philadelphiana - Fairs, festivals
See related tradecard for Cheltenham Coach Works, Shoemakertown, PA. Moore & Ervien in FLP Americana - Tradesmen's Cards (A-D) - Folder C. Tradecard illustrated with a montage of views of the fair buidlings.
Subject Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society -- Exhibitions & displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Farmers' groups -- Pennsylvania.
Crowds -- Pennsylvania -- Philadephia.
Geographic subject North Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia.| Print Department| trade card - Pennsylvania [P.2014.41.1]
Accession number P.2014.41.1