Display of military items, including a tattered American flag backdrop, clothing, pots and pans, desk, chair, bellows and trunks.
Titles on labels: Washington relics, Govt. B.; and Taken expressly for Harper's Weekly.
Architects: Machinery Hall -- Henry Pettit & Joseph M. Wilson; Judges' Hall -- H.J. Schwarzmann; Pennsylvania Railroad Office -- Joseph M. Wilson; World's Ticket Office -- H.J. Schwarzmann; Centennial Photographic Association Building -- H.J. Schwarzmann.
Artist of the "Washington" monument is M. Dickerson Eyre.
Belmont Avenue with Bartholdi's Fountain prominent, lamp-lined walkways, landscaped grounds, the Washington monument and pedestrians, and several buildings, including Machinery Hall, Judges' Hall, Pennsylvania Railroad Office, Frank Leslie's Pavilion, World's Ticket Office, and Centennial Photographic Association Building.
Exhibit titles: Marchand, Louis Leon, Paris, Exhibit #478; Elkinston [sic] & Co., Birmingham, Exhibit #134, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg., #1.
Showcase containing suits of armor and decorative metal ware, including candelabra, platters, urns, and chandeliers. Beside Elkington exhibit is Marchand.
Three-quarter length portrait of Miss Shaw, seated, wearing a shawl and holding a rose. Ornate border around the portrait depicts angels and flowers. An eagle at the top of the portrait holds in its mouth a circular medal reading: PLUMBE Gold Medal., In Loder, George. Lady! The rose I give to thee (Philadelphia, 1846), vignette., The actress Charlotte Shaw debuted at the Bowery Theater on Dec. 14, 1842. Cf. Hall, Lillian A. Catalogue of dramatic portraits (1930-1934)., “[John] Plumbe devised a method whereby his studio copied original photographic images onto a lithographer’s stone by an early and innovative method of mechanical photoreproduction that still remains a mystery. Plumbeotypes were thus actually lithographs, but with a difference, for the stones were created with the new process.”--P. 48. LCP AR [Annual Report] 1992.
In American Sentinel (May 28, 1824), p. [1]., Three identical busts representing Hannah, Rebecca, and Abigail Hatch., “A very interesting Natural Curiosity, to be seen from 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. at the Masonic Hall, Chesnut street. Admittance 25 cents. It sometimes happens ... that ... there is a remarkable diminution in the human form. This inferiority of stature is ... exemplified ... in the case of three women, Hannah, Rebecca, and Abigail Hatch. They are daughters of the same father and mother, (who were of the ordinary size) and born at Falmouth ... Massachusetts.... their ages [are] between 25 and 40 years – and their height between 36 and 42 inches.”
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Distant view of a gazebo on the property of the Bedford Springs Hotel, which featured seven freshwater, "medicinal" springs.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of a narrow, jagged rock above the railroad tracks near Bedford, Pa.
