Trade card containing a view of Agricultural Hall, one of the main buildings at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. View includes visitors walking and on horseback on the grounds. Also contains length and width of building. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Advertising text on verso: Good Workmanship. Reasonable Prices. Philip Doersom, Successor to Steigerwalt & Doersom, Manufacturer of Carriages, Buggies, Phaetons, Market Wagons, &c., No. 128 East King Street, A Half Square East of the Court House. Lancaster, Pa. Repairing Promptly and Carefully attended to., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.15]
Photomechanical reduced reproduction advertising the commemorative print engraved by the American Bank Note Company. Commemorative print contains portraits of the U.S. presidents from Washington to Grant within a border composed of the thirty-six state seals. Portraits include inauguration date., Trade Mark., Registered 1876., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.18]
