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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
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 .
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 ...
1858 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ... Fourth Centenary Exhibition [citation needed] 1955 – Turin, Italy – International Expo of Sport Turin 1955 [112] [123]
CIPEX (Centenary International Philatelic Exhibition, Grand Central Palace, New York City, 17–23 May 1947) [45] FIPEX (Fifth International Philatelic Exhibition, New York Coliseum, New York City, 28 April – 6 May 1956)
Centennial Exhibition, 1876, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. First official World's Fair in the United States, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. About 10 million visitors attended, equivalent to about 20% of the population of the United States at the time.
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 ...