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Centennial Exposition scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0015
Abstract

This scrapbook of advertisements, trade cards, and collectible ephemera from the 1876 Centennial Exposition was created by Richard W. Davids.

Dates: 1876
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

The Centennial scrap book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0042
Abstract This late nineteenth-century American scrapbook bears the title "The Centennial Scrap Book" and its contents suggest that it may have been made by an adolescent female: scraps and images depict courtship, infants, fashionable ladies, flowers, and religious sentiments. The album features a series of Centennial exhibition cards that show the buildings in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, that were constructed for the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. The album also includes prayer...
Dates: 1876
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

World fairs and expositions collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0630
Abstract

This artificial collection comprises a variety of types of material documenting world fairs and expositions, spanning the dates between 1851 and 1967, with the bulk of the collection dating from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Material consists of printed matter and ephemera, including newspapers, programs, invitations, maps, brochures, viewbooks, advertisements, stationery, contracts, bonds, trade cards, and a scrapbook; photographs and prints; and realia souvenirs.

Dates: 1851-1967; Majority of material found in 1893
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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  • Names: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) X
  • Subject: Trade cards (advertising) X

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Advertisements 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Scrapbooks 2
Advertising fans 1
Albumen prints 1
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Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Botanical illustration 1
Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Contracts 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Invitations 1
London (England)--History--19th century 1
Maps (documents) 1
Menus 1
Montréal (Québec)--History--20th century 1
New Orleans (La.)--History--19th century 1
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Newspapers 1
Pennants 1
Photographs 1
Postcards 1
Prayers 1
Printed ephemera 1
Programs (documents) 1
Punch (London, England) 1
Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--20th century 1
San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century 1
Scarves (costume accessories) 1
Scrapbooks--United States--History--19th century 1
Souvenirs 1
Stationery 1
Stereographs 1
Stereoscopes 1
Viewbooks 1
Watercolors (paintings) 1
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Pears (A. & F.) Limited 2
Creator unidentified 1
Davids, Richard W. 1
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 1
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) 1
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.) 1
Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) 1
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Wanamaker & Brown 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.) 1
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