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Title: Centennial Photographic Co. International Exhibition
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1876
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of a display of saws and files advertising the wares of E.M. Boynton at the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876; a large log with a hand saw leaning against it for demonstrations sits outside of a cube-shaped booth hung with saw and cutting tools of many shapes and sizes; shield insignia with "1776 1876 Philadelphia" inscribed around it and "CPC" monogram in its center for Centennial Photographic Company in bottom center margin.
"Registered 1876 by the Centennial Photographic Company."--text, bottom center margin. "Wm. Notman, President / W. Irving Adams, Vice Prest. / Edward L. Wilson, Supt. & Treasurer / J.A. Fraser, Art Superintendent."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photograph : ; image 25.4 x cm (10 x 8 5/16 in.) ; overall 45.09 x 38.1 cm (17 3/4 x 15 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FAIR_001753
407869
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1965
Language: English
Subject: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)--Pictorial works
Exhibitions--Pictorial works
Saws--Pictorial works
Photographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Fairs & Expositions
Large Size
United States Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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