RARE 100th INDEPENDENCE DAY / CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION PATRIOTIC CABINET PHOTO 1876 for Sale

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RARE 100th INDEPENDENCE DAY / CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION PATRIOTIC CABINET PHOTO 1876 For Sale

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RARE 100th INDEPENDENCE DAY / CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION PATRIOTIC CABINET PHOTO 1876:
$950.00

ORIGINAL!RARE! 100th INDEPENDENCE DAY and CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION PATRIOTIC CABINET PHOTO 1876

RARE! INDEPENDENCE DAY and CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION PATRIOTIC CABINET PHOTO 1876.

CABINET PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION and THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OFINDEPENDENCE (JULY 4,1876) DAY PATRIOTIC RENDERING OFAMERICA\'S GREAT BALD EAGLE CARRYING A FLAG PENNANT WITH THE WORD \"EXCELSIOR \"(Excelsior Meaning = Ever Upward!).

THE RENDERING PHOTOGRAPHED WAS LIKELY DERIVEDFROM CHARLES WILSON PEALE\'S (b.1741-d.1847) \"CABINET OF CURIOSITIES\" (ONE OF AMERICAS FIRST MUSEUMS, HOUSED IN INDEPENDENCE HALL TILL 1794. THE SAME LOCATION OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OFINDEPENDENCE AND THECENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

Charles Willson Peale(April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician, and naturalist.In 1775, inspired by the American Revolution, Peale moved from his native Maryland to Philadelphia, where he set up a painting studio and joined the Sons of Liberty. During the American Revolutionary War, Peale served in the Pennsylvania Militia and the Continental Army, participating in several military campaigns. In addition to his military service, Peale also served in the Pennsylvania State Assembly from 1779 to 1780.Peale\'s portraits of leading American figures of the late 18th century are some of the most recognizable and prominent from that era. In 1784, he founded the Philadelphia Museum, one of the first American museums housed in Independence Hall.It housed a diverse collection of botanical, biological, and archaeological specimens. The museum contained a large variety of birds which Peale himself acquired, and in many instances mounted, having taught himself taxidermy.

More than two centuries after Peale painted his 1779 portraitWashington at Princeton, the painting sold for $21.5 million, the highest price ever paid for an American portrait.

TheCentennial International Exhibition, officially theInternational Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, was held in Philadelphia from May 10 to November 10, 1876. It was the first official world\'s fair to be held in the United States, and coincided with the centennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence\'s adoption in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

CONDITION IS VERY FINE WITH SOME HANDLING FROM ITS 147+ YEARS.

CAPTION PERIOD WRITTEN IN INK ON THE REVERSE:

SCENERY of HANNOVER, Ind.

No. 21\" Excelsior \" Phi\'l at Hall(Philadelphia at Independence Hall )

Photographed by Wm. A. Caldwell,

Indianapolis, Ind.

(William A. Caldwell was an 1874 graduate of Hanover College. He worked as a photographer in Indianapolis, Indiana.)

DIMENSIONS: 3 7/8\" x 6 15/16\"

(please see pictures).

THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION OR COPY.

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