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The Great Sanitary Fair in 1864 was the model for the Centennial Exposition; it raised $1,046,859 for medicine and bandages during the American Civil War. Joseph Roswell Hawley, president of the U.S. Centennial Commission A stock certificate for five $10 shares issued by the Centennial Board of Finance
Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of ...
The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 was a world's fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its purpose was to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence , and the 50th anniversary of the 1876 Centennial Exposition .
The bank was chartered on January 19, 1876, to finance Philadelphia's coming-out on the world stage, the Centennial Exposition. The Exposition was the first World's Fair held in North America and its opening day, July 4, coincided with the 100-year of American independence.
1874 — First zoo, Philadelphia (chartered in 1859) [27] 1876 — First World's Fair in the United States, the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia; 1877 — First department store opened, Wanamaker's, Philadelphia; 1879 — First non-reservation school for Native Americans, Carlisle, Carlisle Indian School
Main Exhibition Building at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia (1875–76, disassembled and sold 1881). In terms of total area enclosed, 21-1/2 acres, this was the largest building in the world. Broad Street Station in Philadelphia (1881, expanded 1893, demolished 1953) in 1903. The Wilson Brothers' 1881 station is the section at center.
The Centennial comfort stations are two brick buildings in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park originally built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition. [1] They were located south of the now-demolished Horticulture Building and used as public toilets.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. [1] The main museum building was completed in 1928 [ 8 ] on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval . [ 2 ]