The ticket for the event states: Proceeds for the benefit of a Sunday school., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Amateur Minstrels
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Amateur (26)5761.F.2b (McAllister)
Print containing several vignettes commemorating the forthcoming Centennial Exhibition of 1876, predominately views depicting exhibition buildings. Depicts the Main Exhibition Building, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall and Art Gallery, Agricultural Hall, and Horticultural Hall. Views also show landscaped promenades and boulevards with street and pedestrian traffic. Also contains a view of the Roxborough Baptist Church; a liberty bell; lists of the "Officers of the Roxborough Baptist Sunday School 1876" and "Teachers of the Roxborough Baptist Sunday School"; and a decorative border. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 150, Gift of David Doret.
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.2006.31.11]
