Details
Creator Potsdamer & Co.
Contributor Potsdamer & Co., printer.
Title International Exhibition. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 1876. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Potsdamer & Co
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date c1875
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 14 cm. (3 x 5.5 in.)
Description Stock trade card for lithographer Potsdamer & Co. depicting buildings constructed for the International Exhibition in 1876. Includes the Main Building, Art Gallery, Horticultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Agricultural Hall as postcards displayed in a montage on a silver platter. Potsdamer & Co. operated from the mid 1870s until Ketterlinus acquired the firm in 1885. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Advertising text on verso: Potsdamer & Co. 321 Chestnut Street, commercial, lithographic and letter press printing house, Philadelphia. Includes in the upper left-hand corner a design for the Franklin Institute Exhibition silver medal the company won in 1874 for engraving and printing.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 40
Subject Potsdamer & Co.
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Trade cards - P [P.9728.1]
Accession number P.9728.1
P.9728.1 verso