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The great Centennial exhibition
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The great Centennial Exhibition critically described and illustrated
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The official history of the centennial exhibition
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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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Ye greate centennial
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Image of "Ye Great Centennial,” a four-page special edition newspaper published by the "Centennial Art Journal," for the United States Centennial Exhibition held in 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with an engraving in the masthead of an image of Uncle Sam standing before Independence Hall with the United States Capitol Building in the distance, and surrounded by historic scenes of the American Revolutionary War including ships in Boston Harbor, General George Washington crossing the Delaware River with troops in a boat, and soldiers in battle, with the years "1776" and 1876" at the top left and right; the newspaper’s text includes advertisements for companies, articles about American history and the origins of American symbols and traditions, and historic images of "William Penn's Seal & Signature to the Pennsylvania Charter with the Witnesses" (page 1); an image of a cream pot and a handwritten facsimile of an “Epitaph written 1827” by Benjamin Franklin captioned “Cream Pot Presented to Henry Hill by Dr. Franklin” (page 2); a handwritten facsimile of “The Star-spangled banner, in the hand writing of the Author” (page 3); head-and-shoulder portraits of British King George III and British Revolutionary War General Thomas Gage (on page 3); a facsimile of the masthead of the October 31, 1765, issue of the “Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser” (page 4); and the exteriors of “The House in Which Benj. Franklin was born Milk Street House, Boston” (page 4), and the “Burial Place of Benj. Franklin S.E. Cor. Of 5th & Arch St. Philada” (page 4).
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Centennial Photographic Co. International Exhibition
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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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The United States Centennial International Exhibition
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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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