Details
Creator Centennial Photographic Co.
Contributor Schwarzmann, Hermann Joseph, 1846-1891. architect.
Title Centennial opening - the orators. 1876. [graphic] / Centennial Photographic Co., International Exhibition, Philadelphia. Wm. Notman, President. W. Irving Adams, Vice Pres't. Edward L. Wilson, Sup't. & Treasurer. J.A. Fraser, Art Superintendent.
Publisher Philadelphia : Centennial Photographic Co
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date c1876
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 11 x 18 cm. (4.25 x 7 in.)
Description View showing a large crowd of visitors gathered around and on top of Memorial Hall (i.e., Art Gallery, built 1874-1876 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann) on Opening Day on May 10, 1876. Pedestrians, many with parasols, walk toward the speakers' stands to hear President Ulysses S. Grant speak. Includes two West End Passenger Railway Company streetcars in the foreground. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art.
Is part of International Exhibition, 1876 356
Notes Title on negative.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contain initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876.
White curved mount with rounded corners.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject West End Passenger Railway Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Street railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject United States -- Centennial celebrations, etc.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Schwarzmann, Hermann Joseph, 1846-1891. architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.9047.162]
Accession number P.9047.162