Image of a United States Centennial Exhibition stock certificate with the goddess Columbia at top center surrounded by muses and women in ethnic costumes bearing gifts; an American eagle is flanked by bust sculptures of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at center; working men and Native American Indians portrayed at left to represent 1776; soldiers, and African American man reading, a man with a sewing machine, and a sailor holding a model sailboat at left to represent 1876; three historical vignettes along the bottom portraying a farming scene with machinery, a train, and a steamboat, the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a scene with a windmill and an American Indian man sitting on a log with smoking factories in the background; seal of the Centennial Board of Finance at lower center; certificate is signed by Centennial Board of Finance president John Welsh and treasurer Frederick Fraley. "Geo. B. Mc.Cartee, Chief of Bureau. Engraved & Printed at the Bureau, Engraving & Printing. Geo. W. Casilear, Supt. of Engraving."--text, bottom center margin. "The United States Centennial International Exhibition Shares 2. No. (3510) This certifies that Mrs. F.R. Sears is the holder of Two Shares of the Capital Stock of the Centennial Board of Finance incorporated by Act of Congress, approved June 1st, 1872. Transferable only on the books of the Corporation on the surrender of the Certificate. Witness the Seal of said Centennial Board of Finance at the City of Philadelphia this 6th day of August 1875. Fred. Fraley, Treasurer. Jno. Welsh President. Shares $10. Each. Capital $10.000.000."--text, portions of certificate, handwritten and printed.
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 47.31 x 55.88 cm (18 5/8 x 22 in.)
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Columbia (Symbolic character)--Pictorial works Eagles--Pictorial works Fraley, F. (Frederick), 1804-1901 Founding Fathers of the United States--Pictorial works Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Pictorial works Washington, George, 1732-1799--Pictorial works Welsh, John, 1805-1886 Intaglio prints--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Stock certificates. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Fairs & Expositions Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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