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Photograph album of New York City during centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration

Description: An album of 22 photographs of New York City street scenes and landmarks during the 1889 centennial celebration of the inauguration of President George Washington. Images include City Hall, Old Federal Hall, and Hanover Bank festooned with American flags and bunting; a naval parade on the East River; cannons in Battery Park; Central Park; and William Street. Also seen is the temporary, wooden Washington Arch in Washington Square, erected in 1889 with private funds to commemorate Washington's inauguration centennial. It was replaced with a permanent marble structure designed by Stanford White in 1892. The album has the bookplate of J. Foster Flagg, and handwritten captions. The photographs are not credited.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1889
Call number: photCL 225
Provenance: Gift of Frank H. McDonald, May 1979.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Dimensions: prints 11 x 17 cm
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Photograph album of New York City during centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration

Visual Materials

An album of 22 photographs of New York City street scenes and landmarks during the 1889 centennial celebration of the inauguration of President George Washington. Images include City Hall, Old Federal Hall, and Hanover Bank festooned with American flags and bunting; a naval parade on the East River; cannons in Battery Park; Central Park; and William Street. Also seen is the temporary, wooden Washington Arch in Washington Square, erected in 1889 with private funds to commemorate Washington's inauguration centennial. It was replaced with a permanent marble structure designed by Stanford White in 1892. The album has the bookplate of J. Foster Flagg, and handwritten captions. The photographs are not credited.

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The Adam Forepaugh shows. Historic scenes and battles of the American Revolution : inauguration of George Washington

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Image of an exterior street view of the first inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States on April 30, 1789, with patriots, soldiers and civilians, celebrating from building windows and in the street before the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

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Photograph album of New York City buildings

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Album chiefly containing photographic postcards showing street-level exterior views of multi-story named apartment buildings and hotels on the Upper West Side of New York City, as well as some educational and commercial buildings. All postcards are identified with a title and address of the structure and photograph stock number written on the image. The album also contains three larger images (16 x 21 cm) of St. Luke's Hospital, the New York Public Library main branch, and the Plaza Hotel.

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Photograph album of Western United States and New York State

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An album with 66 photographs of various locations in New York State and the Western United States, including California, Washington, Texas, and Arizona. Images of New York include the New York City harbor, Battery Park, the Flatiron Building, Thousand Islands, the town of Clayton, and the city of Ogdensburg. Views of the Western states include street scenes in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; the Cascade Range of mountains; an "Indian Fair" in the city of Toppenish and other places in the Yakama (also spelled Yakima) Indian Reservation in Washington; the city of San Antonio in Texas; and the Mojave Desert in Arizona. There are also single views of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Northern Pacific Railway, and New Orleans.

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Centennial anniversary certificate. United States centennial celebration

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Image of a certificate memorializing a visit to the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image of four allegorical goddess figures reclining at center with symbols of American progress around and behind them, including a union shield, sheaves of grain, a plow and scythe, fruit, mechanical cogs, a caduceus, factories, and ships; images of the Agricultural Hall, Memorial Hall, Main Building, and Machinery Hall in each corner; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at left and right in decorative grapevine frame; seal of the Centennial Certificate Bureau of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that depicts a bald eagle standing on a shield of stars and stripes; signatures of Pennsylvania governor John F. Hartranft, mayor of Philadelphia William S. Stokley, and President Ulysses S. Grant.

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U.S. Centennial Exhibition of 1876: Pocket albums (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

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Pocket souvenir albums containing images of exhibition buildings and other miscellaneous views in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, produced in commemoration of the United States Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Covers and manuscript inscriptions vary between album copies. American Centennial (Rand, McNally & Co., approximately 1876) – 1 copy Centennial (Koch Sons & Co., approximately 1876) – 1 copy Centennial Album (Centennial Album Co., ©1875) – 5 copies Centennial Album (H. J. Toudy & Co., approximately 1876) – 1 copy Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia (approximately 1876) – 3 copies Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia (Philip Frey & Co., approximately 1876) – 3 copies Centennial Souvenir Philadelphia (Ostheimer Bros., approximately 1876) – 4 copies Memorial of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia (Thos. Hunter, ©1876) – 10 copies

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