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View of the great coliseum for the World's Peace Jubilee and International Music Festival to be held in Boston from June 17. to July 4. 1872

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Title: View of the great coliseum for the World's Peace Jubilee and International Music Festival to be held in Boston from June 17. to July 4. 1872
Creator: Ackermann, Emil F., 1840-, artist
New England Lithographic Co., publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1872
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of a large exhibition building for the World's Peace Jubilee in Boston, Massachusetts; a very dense crowd of people stream towards the building, arriving both on foot and in horse-drawn vehicles; flags from many nations fly above the building; angels with herald trumpets at top right and left provide a decorative frame.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872, by the New-England Lithographic Company, in the office of the librarian of Congress at Washington."--text, bottom center margin. "Published by the New England Lithographic Company, / 109 Summer St. Boston, Mass. / F. Nickerson, President. / Charles C. Kurtz, Treasurer. / Drawn on stone by E. Ackermann / from an Original Painting in water colors, by / F. Knobel and E. Ackermann."--text, bottom right margin. "Wm G. Preston, Architect. / Messrs. Sears and Mc Nutt, Contractors. / Building Committee / Geo. H. Davis, Chairman / M.M. Ballou, Joseph F. Paul, Lewis Rice, / J.H. Chadwick. / Length of building 550 feet / Width [of building] 350 [feet] / Height from parquet floor to ridge 106 [feet[ / Area covered by building 189,500 feet, or about 4 1/3 acres."--text, bottom left margin. "A Chorus of Twenty Thousand trained voices, accompanied by Two Thousand instruments and an immense Organ ... producing the works of the great masters and the music of all nations in a series of the grandest concerts ever given."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 46.2 x 59.06 cm (18 3/16 x 23 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FAIR_001709
407787
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3060
Subject: Exhibition buildings--Pictorial works
Exhibitions--Pictorial works
Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works
National Peace Jubilee and Musical Festival (1869 : Boston, Mass.)
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Place: Boston (Mass.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Fairs & Expositions
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General Fairs and Expositions
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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