| Creator |
Centennial Photographic Co. |
| Title |
Porcelain ware, Japanese Court. [graphic] / Centennial Photographic Co., International Exhibition, Philadelphia. Edward L.
Wilson, W. Irving Adams, proprietors.
|
| Publisher |
Philadelphia : Centennial Photographic Co |
| Date |
c1876 |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 11 x 18 cm. (4.25 x 7 in.) |
| Description |
View showing porcelain ware, mostly vases, in a stall in the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit
and Joseph M. Wilson. Other framed artwork hangs on the walls and a table and other objects rest on the carpeted floor. The
fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art.
|
| Is part of |
International Exhibition, 1876 2175 |
| Notes |
Title on negative. |
|
Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted
by date range 1776-1876.
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Advertisements printed on verso for twelve businesses including Centennial Photographic Company, Gilbert & Bacon, Partridge's
Dining Rooms, The Crosscup & West Wood and Photo-Engraving Co., Starkey & Palen, Amos Hillborn & Co., A. & G. Taylor, Hale
& Kilburn Mfg. Co., Wm. J. Dornan, I.H. Wisler, Eichmann & Meier, and R. Levick, Son & Co.
|
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White curved mount with rounded corners. |
|
Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow. |
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Subject |
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings. |
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Exhibitions & displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Porcelain -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Vases -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
United States -- Centennial celebrations, etc. |
|
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West. |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. |
|
Stereographs -- 1870-1880. |
| Associated name |
Pettit, Henry, 1842-1921, architect. |
| Associated name |
Wilson, Joseph M. (Joseph Miller), 1838-1902, architect. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.9022.5] |
| Accession number |
P.9022.5 |
