The
United States Centennial International Exhibition
United States
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Casilear, George W.
McCartee, George B.
still image
Graphic
Certificates -- 1870-1880
Engravings -- 1870-1880
dcu
Washington D.C
D.C. Washington
Bureau, Engraving & Printing
[ca. 1872]
1872
monographic
eng
2 prints : engraving ; sheet 53 x 66 cm (21 x 26 in.) or smaller.
Share certificate issued by the Centennial Board of Finance containing a series of historical and allegorical vignettes, scenes, and figures. Vignettes depict a view on a coastline showing a white man, attired in colonial dress, reaping with a sickle beside a white man driving a plow in front of a steer-drawn conestoga wagon, a moving train, and sailing ships; the signing of the Declaration of Independence; and a scene depicting a Native American man, attired in pants and moccasins with a feather in his hair and a quiver of arrows on his back, covering his face from the sight of a dilapidated windmill near rows of industrial buildings spewing smoke. Along the sides figures include: tradesmen; laborers; soldiers; frontiersmen; inventors, including Benjamin Franklin; Native Americans; and an African American man reading. In the top center, allegorical figures of Liberty, Art, and Peace, portrayed as white women, accept offerings from representations of people from across the world, including African women; a woman attired in a turban, a person with a parrot on their shoulder, and an Asian man with a queue. Also contains: busts of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant; an eagle holding an American flag; views of the State House and Capitol; and the printed seal of the Centennial Board of Finance. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art.
Engraved & printed at the Bureau, Engraving & Printing; Geo. B. McCartee, Chief of Bureau; Geo. W. Casilear, Supt. of Engineering.
Title from item.
P.2002.67.77 issued to Margaret R. Bringhurst for one share on October 20, 1875. Signed by Fred. Fraley, Treasurer; and John Welsh, President.
5788.F.10 issued to Mary Norris Logan for one share on November 10, 1876. Signed by Fred. Fraley, Treasurer; and John Welsh, President.
Printed on recto: Shares $10. Each. Capital $10,000,000.
Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790
Portraits
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
1822-1885
Portraits
Washington, George
1732-1799
Portraits
United States
Declaration of Independence
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men
Africans
Allegories
Artisans
Asians
Ethnic stereotypes
Explorers
Farming
Indians of North America
Indigenous peoples
United States
Industry
Inventors
Liberty
Racism in popular culture
Railroads
Soldiers
5758.F.10; P.2002.67.77
P.2002.67.77
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*Philadelphia certificates - Centennial [P.2002.67.77]
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**Philadelphia certificates - Centennial [5758.F.10]
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