Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Philadelphia_Centennial_Exposition_(1876)
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gptkbp:annualVisitors approximately 10 million
gptkbp:area 285 acres
gptkbp:closed 1876-11-10
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Centennial_Medal
gptkb:Centennial_Tower_(never_built)
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876)
gptkbp:legacy gptkb:Memorial_Hall_(now_the_Please_Touch_Museum)
Development of Fairmount Park
Philadelphia Zoo expansion
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gptkb:Machinery_Hall
gptkb:Horticultural_Hall
gptkb:Memorial_Hall
gptkb:Agricultural_Hall
gptkbp:nextEdition gptkb:Exposition_Universelle_(Paris,_1878)
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gptkb:Corliss_Steam_Engine
gptkb:Heinz_Ketchup
gptkb:Remington_Typographic_Machine
gptkb:Statue_of_Liberty_arm
gptkb:Hires_Root_Beer
gptkb:John_Philip_Sousa's_band
Typewriter
Root beer
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gptkb:Andrew_Carnegie
gptkb:Annie_Oakley
gptkb:Clara_Barton
gptkb:Emily_Dickinson
gptkb:Emily_Warren_Roebling
gptkb:Frederick_Douglass
gptkb:Frederick_Law_Olmsted
gptkb:George_Westinghouse
gptkb:Geronimo
gptkb:Henry_James
gptkb:J._P._Morgan
gptkb:James_McNeill_Whistler
gptkb:John_D._Rockefeller
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gptkb:John_Singer_Sargent
gptkb:Joseph_Henry
gptkb:Louisa_May_Alcott
gptkb:Mark_Twain
gptkb:Mary_Cassatt
gptkb:Oscar_Wilde
gptkb:P._T._Barnum
gptkb:Susan_B._Anthony
gptkb:Thomas_Eakins
gptkb:Thomas_Edison
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkb:Winslow_Homer
gptkb:George_Armstrong_Custer
gptkb:Henry_Morton_Stanley
gptkb:Red_Cloud
gptkb:Henry_Hobson_Richardson
gptkb:Buffalo_Bill_Cody
gptkb:Jay_Gould
gptkb:Dom_Pedro_II
gptkb:Albert_Bierstadt
gptkb:Calvert_Vaux
gptkb:Cornelius_Vanderbilt
gptkb:Frederic_Edwin_Church
gptkb:Philip_Sheridan
gptkb:Richard_Morris_Hunt
gptkb:Rutherford_B._Hayes
gptkb:Thomas_Moran
gptkb:Wyatt_Earp
gptkb:William_Tecumseh_Sherman
gptkb:Frank_Furness
gptkb:Heinrich_Schliemann
gptkb:Chief_Joseph
gptkb:Crazy_Horse
gptkb:Samuel_J._Tilden
gptkb:Sarah_Winnemucca
gptkb:Sitting_Bull
gptkb:Stanford_White
gptkb:Doc_Holliday
gptkb:Louis_Comfort_Tiffany
gptkb:Augustus_Saint-Gaudens
gptkb:Bat_Masterson
gptkb:John_Wanamaker
gptkb:Wild_Bill_Hickok
gptkb:Quanah_Parker
gptkb:Emperor_Pedro_II_of_Brazil
gptkb:John_Roebling
George B. McClellan
Daniel Chester French
President Ulysses S. Grant
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:International_Exhibition_of_Arts,_Manufactures,_and_Products_of_the_Soil_and_Mine
gptkbp:opened gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
1876-05-10
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:United_States_Centennial_Commission
gptkbp:presidentAtOpening gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkbp:previousEdition gptkb:Exposition_Universelle_(Paris,_1867)
gptkbp:purpose Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence
gptkbp:troopContributingCountries 37
gptkbp:venue gptkb:Fairmount_Park
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Thomas_Moran
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5