Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Stereopticon Exhibition. The Great Centennial Illustrated. Views of the Centennial Exposition of 1876. Comprising illustrations of the principal buildings, objects of greatest interest, works of art, etc. etc.
Call Number
C South 08/Drawer 07/GC179/Half Folio GA 2012.02801
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcdf65vp315
Publisher
Los Angeles : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1876]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1876
Extent
1 item ; sheet 60.9 x 22.4 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Letterpress printing
Inscribed in plate, below: "The Centennial of 1876 has excited much attention and has been visited by vast numbers from every section of the United States and foreign countries. The views are all photographs. // TAKEN ON THE SPOT! // And are brilliantly illustrated by our Stereopticon, and will, therefore, bring the Centennial home to those who have not had the opportunity of visiting it in person, and will also enable those who have visited it to see truthful representations of the various works of art and industry which have made the Centennial of 1876 so renowned."
Item description: Printed on blue paper.
Signed in plate, lower center: "Needham & Churchill, Proprietors. // Mirror Printing, Ruling and Binding House, Los Angeles.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Exhibitions—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History—19th century
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)—In art
Projectors—United States—Exhibitions
Photography—United States—Exhibitions
Broadsides—United States—19th century—Specimens
Advertising—Exhibitions—Specimens
Ephemera—19th century
Printed ephemera—United States—19th century—Specimens
Broadsides—California—Los Angeles—1876

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/918c6ae3-bc96-4db4-8a6b-96c298ebfcc7/manifest