Details
Creator Barker, George, photographer.
Title The Centennial - George's Hill from Elm Avenue. [graphic] / Geo. Barker, Photographer. Niagara Falls, New York.
Publisher Niagara Falls, N.Y. : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. Niagara Falls. 1876
Date [ca. 1876]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description View from the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 depicting an African American man standing next to an occupied horse-drawn passenger cart decorated with flags and posters in front of George's Hill in Fairmount Park. The observation tower upon the hill, and several sheds, pavilions, and tents are seen in the background.
Notes Title and photographer's imprint on mount.
Number 1017 in a series of views entitled: The Centennial.
Manuscript note on verso: No. 21.
Manuscript note on verso: Isaac Sterns Burlington, VT.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984.
Biographical / historical note George Barker was a prolific New York stereographer in the 1860s whose gallery catered to the tourist trade in Niagara Falls.
Subject Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1876.
Flags -- American.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Barker [P.9047.20]
Accession number P.9047.20