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Ground plan of buildings of the Great Central Sanitary Fair, Logan Square, Philadelphia. June, 1864

Description
Image of a scale diagram of the layout for the plan of buildings at the Great Central Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; large areas for the Restaurant Department and Horticultural Department are surrounded by smaller exhibit spaces for hardware, furnishings and clothing, jewelry, machinery, art, and many other kinds of goods; map shows the park to be situated between Logan Street, Vine Street, Eighteenth Street, and Race Street.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
1864
Call number
priJLC_FAIR_001707
Creator
Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Associated people
Ackermann, Emil F., (1840-)
Ames, Daniel T. (1826-1909.)
Aubrun, Louis. (1808-)
Benecke, Theodore. (1823-1898.)
Bentzen, B. M. (approximately 1828-approximately 1894.)
Bien, Julius, (1821 or 1822-1883.)
Bourquin, F. (1824-approximately 1877.)
Chapin, Will E. (1813-1873.)
Church (1813 or 1814-1882.)
Curran, M. E.
Davis, Theodore R.
Haddock, John A.,
Hunter, Thomas,
Remacle, A.
Krebs, Otto.
Meyer, Gustav
Miller, James,
Murphy, John L.
Olsen, Alex A.
Queen, Jas.
Schile, H.
Telbin, William,
Thornton, Chester.
Walker, Edmund,
Weingartner, A.
Wheaton, W. F.
Associated organizations
A. Brown & Co.
American Bank Note Company.
Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
Banks & Co.
Breuker & Kessler Co.
Centennial Photographic Co.
Colby Poster Printing Co.
Cosack & Co.
Crosscup & West.
Currier & Ives.
Day & Son.
Donaldson Brothers (Firm)
Ed. W. Welcke & Bro.
Ehrgott & Krebs.
Fair Pub. House.
George Stinson & Co.
Gilbert & Rivington.
Gillin & Nagle.
Goupil & Cie.
Harper & Brothers.
Heliotype Printing Co.
Julius Bien & Co.
Kurz & Allison.
Leighton Bros. (London, England)
Lloyd Brothers & Co.
Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Majestic Poster Press.
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co.
Matthews-Northrup Company.
Nagel & Weingärtner.
National Publishing Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
New England Lithographic Co.
Ohio.
Orcutt Litho Co.
P.S. Duval & Son.
R. Hoe & Company.
Rand McNally and Company.
Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
Riverside Printing Company.
Russell & Morgan Printing Company.
Schmidt Litho. Co.
Southern Lith. Co.
Tappan & Bradford.
United States.
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