Exhibit title: Elinston [sic] & Co., Birmingham, Exhibit #134, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Ornate vases decorated with figurines of ladies and cherubs, platters, and a mirror. Titles on labels: Helicon Vase--England, and: Helicon Vase and Pompeian Lady with gold and silver mirror, and: Taken expressly for Harper's weekly.
Exhibit title: Elkinston [sic] & Co., Birmingham, Exhibit #134, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Ornate enameled and repousse work platters, vases, and urns decorated with figurines and plants. Titles on labels: Cloisonne and repousse -- England, and: Selection from silver and steel repousse, works of art, and: Taken expressly for Harper's Weekly.
Bronze and silver figurines of horses and riders, one figurine of a sheep. One ornate clock and two matching candle holders. Title on label: Selection's [sic] from Russian Sec: M.B. Taken expressly for Harper's Weekly.
View of fountain in the nave of Agricultural Hall. The large fountain consists of two tiers and is decorated with small statues that include herons, men blowing horns, and a female figure. Potted plants are perched on the corners of the fountain barrier. Also shown in the far background is a wind-mill.
Unmounted stereograph shows goods made of rubber and pre-plastic materials displayed on a booth in the India Rubber and Gutta-Percha Department on Union Avenue. Items include dolls in the foreground and smaller figurines on shelves in the background. A banner displaying the department title hangs under patriotic bunting on the wall. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from printed paper label below image., Labeled copy at HSP., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook on the Sanitary Commission., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 121., Arcadia caption text: During the Civil War, many benevolent and relief organizations were formed to aid soldiers and their families. One of the largest was the U.S. Sanitary Commission, which held fundraising fairs in a number of major cities in the North, including Philadelphia at Logan Square, June 7-28, 1864. Often temporary buildings, such as this one, built after the designs of H. E. Wrigley, were constructed to house the art, craft, industrial, and historical exhibits. Fair offerings included product displays; a re-creation of an 18th-century German-American kitchen; a horticultural exhibit containing a fishpond; and a miniature model house showcasing the most desirable construction methods of that time. Shown below is one of the product display booths on Union Avenue, the fair’s main thoroughfare., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Watson, A., photographer
Date
[ca. 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.159c]
Staffordshire figurine of Benjamin Franklin wearing a blue jacket, vest with floral decoration, gold-striped breeches, and black shoes carrying a tricorn hat in his left hand and a newspaper in his right hand. Gilded decoration and “Franklin” at the base in gilt. No maker’s marks. Firing hole at the bottom of the base., Gift of Beatrice Garvan, 2015.
Block numbered in two places: 9017, also 1887 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a woman and a girl in a woodworker’s shop; the woman regards the woodworker over the girl’s head, and the girl faces the woman, back turned to the woodworker; the woman wears what appear to be large furry mittens, and the girl holds knitting needles; the woodworker wears a loose cap and sits carving at a workbench; the workbench has two carved goats on it, and on the wall hang several carvings of boys’ heads, at least one an angel with wings, and what appears to be a small boar., “V. Grottenthaler Phila.” – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories from 1867 to 1876.
