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	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philadelphia has been home to many people of note, the most famous of whom is probably Benjamin Franklin, who along with fellow resident, Thomas Paine and others in the Continental Congress, espoused the ideals of liberty which helped to shape the city along with the country and the world.
		Philadelphia is one of the largest college towns in the U.S., with over 120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city limits and nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area.
		Philadelphia is served by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), which operates buses, trains, rapid transit, trolleys, and trackless trolleys throughout Philadelphia and the four Pennsylvania suburban counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania (5775 words)

	Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs and Expositions
		The 1776 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the first exposition of its kind in the United States, was held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
		Everything at the Centennial was classified by department (Mining and Metallurgy, Manufactures, Education and Science, Art, Machinery, Agriculture, and Horticulture), subclassified, and further subclassified in a logical scheme that later became a model for the Dewey Decimal System.
		The greatest impact of the Centennial Exposition was on the image of the United States.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/cent.htm (712 words)

	Centennial Exposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official world's fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
		The Swedish cottage, representing a rural Swedish schoolhouse of traditional style, was re-erected after the Exposition closed, in Central Park, New York.
		Centennial exposition described and illustrated, being a concise and graphic description of this grand enterprise commemorative of the first centennary of American independence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centennial_Exposition (254 words)

	Philadelphia 1876
		Philadelphia, the location of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was chosen as the site for the fair.
		U.S. involvement in previous expositions had not been government sponsored, and therefore the exhibits were not as spectacular as they could have been.
		It was at the Centennial Fair that Americans were given a chance to display their knowledge and power in the growing industrialized world.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/honr219f/1876phil.html (3428 words)

	Kaledoscopic Classifications: Redefining Information in a World Cultural Context - 64th IFLA General Conference - ...
		The Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis in 1904 continued the tradition of the World's Fairs of the previous half-century, extolling the virtues of the progress of Euro-American society.
		It was manifest in the classification schemes devised to arrange the exhibits at the expositions.
		William Phipps Blake, a geologist, exhibition specialist and descendant of early Massachusetts settlers, devised a scheme for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
	www.ifla.org /IV/ifla64/109-145e.htm (2205 words)

	The Railroads and the Centennial Exhibition of 1876
		Its location, between Philadelphia and Chicago was conceded to be upon the best line uniting the Atlantic Seaboard with the West and Northwest, while its connecting lines were well known to be as direct as proper consideration for the travel and traffic of the many important centers of population they reach would emit.
		The holders of Centennial Excursion Tickets sold over this route will have the privilege of stopping off at any station, going or returning, can remain as long as they please within the limit of which the tickets are good, and continue their journey by any train.
		The Pennsylvania road, the New Line from New York to Philadelphia, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, the Philadelphia and Reading, and the North Pennsylvania Railroads also made liberal arrangements for numerous excursion trains from points on their roads to the Exhibition grounds, and made generous reductions in the fares.
	www.cprr.org /Museum/Centennial_Exhibition_1876 (5014 words)

	World's Fairs
		The first modern international exposition was the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London in 1851, also apparently known as the International Exhibition.
		Centennial Exposition, Paris, 1889 (Eiffel Tower) Centenary of the French Revolution, which "...did not commend it to several European governments....which were conspicuous by their absence." e.g.
		and the 1962 exposition at Seattle, Expo 67 in Montreal, Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, and Expo 74 in Spokane Washington.
	park.org /Cdrom/TheNot/Mail/FairMyMailBox/msg00027.html (348 words)

	Burpee - The Legacy of W. Atlee Burpee - Page 1
		n the year 1876, as the great Philadelphia Centennial Exposition opened, the United States was still recovering from the cataclysmic upheaval of the Civil War, the agonies of Reconstruction, and a severe economic depression.
		When the Exposition opened on May 10, sensations such as electric arc lights and a great many of the mechanical and industrial exhibits were genuinely revolutionary, but the displays of agricultural advances must have been even more fascinating to one young Philadelphian in attendance, a self-reliant 18-year-old named W. Atlee Burpee.
		The Burpees were a well-established Philadelphia family descended from French Canadian Huguenots whose original family name, Beaupe, had in the course of several generations assumed an Americanized spelling and pronunciation.
	www.burpee.com /jump.jsp?itemID=574&itemType=CONTENT_ARTICLE&apage=1 (638 words)

	United States and Brazil: Dom Pedro II and America / Brasil e Estados Unidos: Dom Pedro II e os Estados Unidos
		The empire of Brazil at the Universal exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, 1876.
		Dom Pedro II spent two weeks at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, where he contacted many distinguished personalities and emphasized the importance of the commercial relations between the United States and Brazil.
		At the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Dom Pedro II met Alexander Graham Bell, who was demonstrating his new invention--the telephone.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /intldl/brhtml/br-1/br-1-5-2.html (908 words)

	SIL \| Research and Internships \| Research Grants
		Her dissertation topic is "Material Modernities: China's Participation in World's Fairs and Expositions, 1876-1955." She received her M.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University in 1993 and was a Visiting Scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, People's Republic of China, for the 1999-2000 academic year.
		Her research looks closely at the ways in which the material culture of a nation is manipulated by Chinese exposition managers in order to advertise a modern nation.
		She hoped to find out if the works from those fairs support the particular claim that Symbolism is increasingly present, and the larger argument that what is discussed under the auspices of "national tradition" or exhibited as such evolves according to the same principles as Symbolist neo-traditionalism.
	www.sil.si.edu /ResearchIntern/BairdScholars.htm (2507 words)

	ExpoMuseum / 1876 Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia
		Celebrated the centennial of the founding of the United States, the Centennial Exposition had on display the Libery Torch as a preview of the Statue of Libery as well as the giant Croliss steam engine, the largest ever built at 70 feet tall.
		The Centennial Exposition Philadelphia, 1876 - from the University of Delaware Library
		The Railroads and the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 - from the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
	expomuseum.com /1876 (266 words)

	The National Underground Railroad Reunion Family Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He was in a unique position to provide board and room for many of the fugitives who rested in Philadelphia before resuming their journey to Canada.
		When Philadelphia abolitionists organized a vigilance committee to assist the large numbers of fugitives going through the city after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, they named William Still chairman.
		He proudly exhibited it at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, a powerful reminder of the condition of Negroes slavery.
	www.undergroundrr.com /foundation/about.htm (978 words)

	The American Experience \| Houdini \| People & Events \| The World's Columbian Exposition
		The mile-long Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the closest an amusement seeker came to a sure thing in 1893.
		The Columbian Exposition was the first major American fair since the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, and it marked the beginning of a golden era.
		In 1876, the organizers of the Philadelphia fair, not wanting to detract from their educational mission, had banned lowbrow entertainment -- only to see a wildly successful "Shantytown" spring up right across the street.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/houdini/peopleevents/pande08.html (499 words)

	Home Beautiful: Domestic embroidery 1900 - 1940
		The designs of the Victorian era tended to be dark and heavy, but exhibitions of Japanese artifacts at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 exposed Americans to a new design aesthetic.
		It is interesting to note that the Philadelphia event was the first world's fair to have the contributions of women as a major element, reflecting the rising influence of the suffragette movement.
		Iron-on transfers were first shown at the Philadelphia Centennial and the referenced iron was, of course, a flat iron.
	www.moah.org /exhibits/archives/embroider/embroider.html (1085 words)

	1904 World's Fair: Looking Back at Looking Forward
		The 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis were the largest of the fairs that followed.
		The 1893 Exposition in Chicago, celebrating the fourth centennial of Columbus’ discovery of America, furthered the image of the United States as a modern, industrialized nation.
		The Pan-American Exposition did not have nearly the impact the other fairs did for several reasons, including the failure of its builders to finish it, bad weather, and its lack of foreign exhibitions.
	www.mohistory.org /content/fair/wf/html/Educators/page5.html (4221 words)

	The Atwater Kent Museum Collection
		This lamp is from one of Henry Tinchin Loo's Chinese restaurants in Philadelphia is part of the collection from the former Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies now at the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia.
		Objects from the exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 commemorating the centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence include lantern slides and stereograph images, souvenirs and items brought by participating countries.
		Established in 1989 in cooperation with the Philadelphia Chapter of the Broadcast Pioneers of America, the collection focuses upon the history of broadcasting in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley.
	www.philadelphiahistory.org /akm/collection (1080 words)

	Palace of Machinery at the 1904 World's Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The north vestibule is one of the most beautiful entrances to be seen in the Exposition palaces.
		In the western end of the Palace of Machinery may be seen the power plant of the Exposition, developing an aggregate energy of forty-five thousand rated horse-power.
		The largest of the engines is the Allis-Chalmers vertical and horizontal refrigerating engine of five thousand horse-power, but the most powerful is the Curtis Steam Turbine, installed by the General Electric Company, developing eight thousand horse-power and capable of producing twelve thousand horse-power under adequate steam supply.
	washingtonmo.com /1904/11.htm (212 words)

	Keely Motor Company 1880 - Perpetual Motion Machine Scam - Signed by founder John W. Keely as President
		He claimed, for example, to be able to produce from a quart of water enough fuel to move a 30-car train from Philadelphia to New York City.
		Philadelphia in 1837 and died there in 1898.
		Philadelphia to San Francisco, and that to propel a steamship from New
	www.scripophily.net /keelmotcom.html (2213 words)

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		nder of the Graphic Sketch Club, one of the organizations that came into being around the time of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and was founded on the principles of the Aesthetic movement (to bring "the beautiful" into the daily lives of private citizens).
		Fleisher's art program was founded in a school in South Philadelphia-the home of his Graphic Sketch Club--in the midst of a community of working-class immigrants.
		The Mural Arts program grew out of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network (P! AGN), a program founded in 1984 by then mayor W. Wilson Goode to help combat the epidemic of graffiti that was plaguing the city.
	www.arlisna.org /news/conferences/1998/proceedings/Outsidel.txt (1198 words)

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		This style was popularized after the Centennial Exposition in 1876, but did not become widespread until 1900.
		1876-1900* Introduced to this country at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, this non-symmetrical style spread quickly across the country.
		A popular success at the 1983 Colombian Exposition in Chicago, the style was employed to express corporate wealth or civic pride.
	www.swmicomm.org /SWMC/US12_Tour_Page2.htm (647 words)

	A Bio. of America: America at the Centennial - Feature
		The Constitutional Convention meets in Philadelphia and drafts a new form of government for the United States.
		On July 4, 1876, word comes by telegraph to Centennial revelers in Philadelphia that the famous Indian fighter Col. George A. Custer and his troops of the 7th Cavalry were soundly defeated nine days earlier by warriors of a combined Sioux and Cheyenne village at the Little Big Horn.
		On the Fourth of July, during the great Centennial celebration of the nation in Philadelphia, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton lead a band of feminists onto the fairgrounds in protest of the failure of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to include the right of women to vote.
	www.learner.org /biographyofamerica/prog13/feature/index_text.html (2594 words)

	The Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Philadelphia was the natural site for this Centennial Exhibition, which centered on a vast machinery hall, holding 13 acres of new devices, widgets, and gadgets.
		One of the most popular exhibits in the Machinery Hall was a prototype slice of the cable that Roebling Brothers would use for the Brooklyn Bridge.
		To preserve the results of the Centennial Exhibition, the Smithsonian Institute built it's second building on the Washington, Mall, The Arts and Industries Building still contains many replicas of the devices in the Machinery Hall, including a model of the great Corliss Engine.
	park.org /Pavilions/WorldExpositions/philadelphia.text.html (531 words)

	Beauty and the Brick: Exposition Catalogs
		Organizers of international expositions opened a whole new world of goods to consumers and art lovers and illustrated publications were an essential part of their success.
		Illustrated exposition publications, ranged from official multiple-volume sets highlighting the masterpieces of the collection to tourist-friendly handbooks.
		London’s 1851 Crystal Palace exposition established a formula for exhibition catalogs and related publications, one first adopted by the Victoria and Albert Museum, and eventually by museums across the United States.
	www.hudsonvalley.org /beauty/exposition.html (233 words)

	The Worlds Fair and Exposition Information and Reference Guide
		The Sesqui-Centennial Exposition was also known as the "Rainbow City" because of the pastel shades of colors on the stucco structures.
		The population of Philadelphia in 1926 was approximately 1.9 million people and more than half the population of the United States lived within 500 miles of Philadelphia.
		Leopold Stokowski led The Philadelphia Orchestra, which was the Official orchestra of the Sesqui-Centennial.
	www.earthstation9.com /1926_ses.htm (1863 words)

	Sesqui-Centennial Exposition Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition Association was the organization which planned and administered the major international exposition held in Philadelphia from May 30 through November 30, 1926, in honor of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
		The idea for the exposition is said to have originated in 1916 when the merchant, John Wanamaker, expressed interest in the sesqui-centennial as an opportunity for Philadelphia to serve as the focus for an international gathering which would rival the great U.S. Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876.
		The records of the Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition Association were placed at the Free Library of Philadelphia at the close of the exposition and were later transferred to the Philadelphia City Archives.
	www.phila.gov /PHILS/Docs/Inventor/graphics/sesqui.htm (766 words)

	American Experience \| Ulysses S. Grant \| People & Events \| The Centennial Exposition of 1876
		President Ulysses S. Grant received an enthusiastic reception as he officially opened the 1876 Centennial Exposition on May 10, 1876.
		Over 300 Native Americans from 53 tribes were brought to the Expo, and they camped on the Centennial grounds.
		Westward expansion had been bringing white settlers inexorably into conflict with the land's original occupants, and eradicating the Native Americans' way of life.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/e_expo.html (850 words)

	Centennial 1876
		The Centennial became a triumph not of ideas but of things, most of which were unlikely to appeal to the pure scientist.
		Among the animals encountered by visitors from all over the country who came to Philadelphia during the six months were a 15-foot walrus, a polar bear and other bears, an elk, and a musk ox.
		His health suffered specifically under the load of the Centennial, but he soon became curator of the Smithsonian and one of the seminal figures in its development, both as scientist and historian.
	www.150.si.edu /chap4/four.htm (2782 words)

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