The Silver Canvas
The Silver Canvas

Author: Bates Lowry

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2000-02-03

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0892365366

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By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.

Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition
Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition

Author: Linda P. Gross

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738538884

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Held in Philadelphia from May 10 through October 10, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition celebrated the 100th anniversary of American independence. Philadelphia hosted 37 nations in five main buildings and 250 additional structures on 285 acres of land. The celebration looked backward to commemorate the progress made over the 100-year period, and it announced to the world that American invention and innovation was on a par with that of our foreign counterparts. Patriotism abounded, as did messages of industrial and commercial prowess that promised a brighter future for all. Over nine million people attended this awesome consumer spectacle, an event that set the tone for a long series of world's fairs yet to come.

Designing the Centennial
Designing the Centennial

Author: Bruno Giberti

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780813122311

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Designing the Centennial is an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the planning of America's first important world's fair -- the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The conflicts between the players -- scientists and engineers, planners and politicians, organizers and their audience -- demonstrate wider cultural clashes between a traditional view of things as object lessons and our more current understanding of things as commodities. Bruno Giberti uses the official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to examine the concept of world's fairs, contrasting the 1876 event with other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century exhibitions and related institutions. The author goes beyond previous works on world's fairs by investigating the design process and by considering the nature of display -- what people were looking at and how they were looking.

East Liberty Presbyterian Church
East Liberty Presbyterian Church

Author: Georgina G. Negley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780656098330

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Excerpt from East Liberty Presbyterian Church: With Historical Setting and a Narrative of the Centennial Celebration, April 12-20, 1919 Such occasions were permeated with fragrant memories of their God-given leaders, the heritage of whose faith and service impelled them to richer endeavor. The historic record of these eras of worshipful rejoicing was handed down as a legacy and incentive to future genera tions. It was on such an occasion that Nehemiah records the inspiring truth - The joy of the Lord is your strength. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.