Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The great Centennial exhibition
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Rare Books
603206
Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for a history of the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876; nine images of the exhibition halls with views of the interiors and exteriors surround text describing the publication and soliciting for agents to sell it.
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Visual Materials
Image of a display of saws and files advertising the wares of E.M. Boynton at the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876; a large log with a hand saw leaning against it for demonstrations sits outside of a cube-shaped booth hung with saw and cutting tools of many shapes and sizes; shield insignia with "1776 1876 Philadelphia" inscribed around it and "CPC" monogram in its center for Centennial Photographic Company in bottom center margin.
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Visual Materials
Image of a United States Centennial Exhibition stock certificate with the goddess Columbia at top center surrounded by muses and women in ethnic costumes bearing gifts; an American eagle is flanked by bust sculptures of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at center; working men and Native American Indians portrayed at left to represent 1776; soldiers, and African American man reading, a man with a sewing machine, and a sailor holding a model sailboat at left to represent 1876; three historical vignettes along the bottom portraying a farming scene with machinery, a train, and a steamboat, the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a scene with a windmill and an American Indian man sitting on a log with smoking factories in the background; seal of the Centennial Board of Finance at lower center; certificate is signed by Centennial Board of Finance president John Welsh and treasurer Frederick Fraley.
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Visual Materials
Image of a United States Centennial Exhibition stock certificate with the goddess Columbia at top center surrounded by muses and women in ethnic costumes bearing gifts; an American eagle is flanked by bust sculptures of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at center; working men and Native American Indians portrayed at left to represent 1776; soldiers, and African American man reading, a man with a sewing machine, and a sailor holding a model sailboat at left to represent 1876; three historical vignettes along the bottom portraying a farming scene with machinery, a train, and a steamboat, the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a scene with a windmill and an American Indian man sitting on a log with smoking factories in the background; seal of the Centennial Board of Finance at lower center; certificate is signed by Centennial Board of Finance president John Welsh and treasurer Frederick Fraley.
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