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The Centennial National Bank was chartered on January 19, 1876, to be the "financial agent of the board at the Centennial Exhibition, receiving and accounting for daily receipts, changing foreign moneys into current funds, etc.," according to an article three days later in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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.
Smith Memorial Arch is an American Civil War monument at South Concourse and Lansdowne Drive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built on the former grounds of the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it serves as a gateway to West Fairmount Park. The Memorial consists of two colossal columns supported by curving, neo-Baroque arches, and adorned with 13 ...
Illustration from a Centennial Exposition guidebook (1876). The fountain's 100-foot-wide stepped base is of granite and in the shape of a Maltese cross . At the center is a 40-foot diameter basin featuring a 15-foot statue of Moses , who clutches the Ten Commandments with his left arm, holds his staff (now missing) in his left hand, and points ...
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.