Approx. 1000 original photos from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia Pa

The link below will take you to a site that has approximately 1000 fantastic original photos (clear as a bell) from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia Pa. The pictures are from the Free Library of Philadelphia It was a worlds fair of it's time (there were also other 19th century International Exhibitions too). It's pretty amazing to see. Both interior, and exterior pictures of nearly every subject you can think of from the time period. It's almost like being there - it gives you a very good idea of what this country and the world was like in 1876. Great displays (and display cabinets/ showcases) - pay attention to the backgrounds in the pictures - sometimes they are more interesting than the foregrounds even. You can use the search tab to search for pictures of a specific subject. This link will take you to 986 Albumen Prints (a subject all seem to have in common) - there are also trade cards that can be viewed by search. I have spent many hours looking at them, and still haven't seen them all. They are displayed 10 pictures per page, you can click on any of them to enlarge them. What I have done to hold my place in he list of pictures I've viewed is copy the address in the address bar and paste it to an email, either send it to yourself, or use "File" and copy it to a folder to save the page address (to later copy and paste to your browser - Internet Explorer works faster than my email browser) when you are ready to go back to view more (too many to look at in one sitting). I'll post some sample pics in a couple postings (because of posting limits) to give you an idea. 

There is also information about the exhibit there (Top LH corner)
Copied from site: "Philadelphia hotels did a brisk business. There were at least eight hotels next to the grounds, and over 51 in central Philadelphia with over fifty rooms. The Globe had a capacity of 3,500, the Atlas 5,000, and most charged from $2.50 to $5.00 per day. The higher rates usually reflected the American plan, which included four meals per day as noted in the official guide, "breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper." Admission to the Centennial was $0.50, a guidebook cost $0.25, a glass of soda water $0.10, a ride on the West End Railway $0.05. The average daily salary of an American worker in 1876 was $1.21. For most Americans, working six days a week, ten hours a day with no paid vacation, a visit to the Centennial, which was not open at night or on Sunday, would have been a special event indeed."

Link:  http://libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol/subjcapsrch3.cfm?Operation=Previous+10+Matches&capQueryKind=begwith&CaptionTitle=&subjQueryKind=contains&subject=Albumen+print&currentRecord=11&endRecord=20

Sorry, woodwright, had to take the images down due to copyright, but this is a great find.  I will peruse them via the site.

Sorry, I didn't mean to infringe on any copyrights. I wasn't sure/ clear about the copyright issue - I thought that naming/ crediting the owners/ source of the pics. (Philadelphia Free Library) would be sufficient. Anyway - check it out, it's a great website w/ tons of amazing pictures and info about the 1876 Centennial Exhibition - quite a show.  woodwright

New Info: Upon further searching, there are almost 1500 pictures (not 1000 as originally posted) This link will take you to 1474 pictures under the search "Centennial Exhibition". Some are pictures are of the buildings - all are nice, but I find the pictures of the displays/ exhibits to be the most interesting - some are nothing short of spectacular. Taken from the site: The photographs are silver albumen prints, and the average exposure time for each picture was 20 minutes - some took as long as 2 hrs. because of the lack of good lighting in some of the buildings, and there are approximately 1500 prints!

http://libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol/subjcapsrch3.cfm?subjQueryKind=contains&subject=Centennial+Exhibition&capQueryKind=begwith&CaptionTitle=&image.x=20&image.y=16

Also: Other World/ International - Exhibitions/ Expositions that took place & can be searched for more info/ pictures on were as follows:
1844 - Universal Exposition (London, England)
1851 - Crystal Palace Exhibition (London)
1853 - Crystal Palace Exhibition (New York, NY)
1855 - Paris, France
1862 - London
1867 - Paris
1873 - Vienna, Austria
1876 - Centennial Exhibition (Philadelphia, Pa)
1878 - Paris
1888 - Glasgow International Exhibition (Gaslgow, UK)
         1888 - Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley Central States (Cincinnati, O.  Smaller/ regional)
1889 - Paris Exposition Univesalle (Paris)
1892 - Detroit International Exposition (Detroit, MI)
1893 - Colombian Exposition (Chicago, IL.)
1895 - Cotton States International Exposition (Atlanta, Ga.)
1900 - International Universal Exposition (Paris)
1901 - Glasgow International Exhibition (Glasgow)
1904 - Lousianna Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, MO)
1006 - Esposione Internazionale (Milano, Italy)
1909 - Imperial International Exhibition (London)
1910 - Universal Internationale Exposition (Brussels, Belgium)
1915 - Panama Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, Ca.)

+ Others. I just found this link which lists all World Expositions and Worlds Fairs 1851 - present. Link:
http://www.tomfolio.com/CollectingInfo/worldsfairs.asp

     woodwright