Cast-steel manufactory of Fried. Krupp, near Essen, Germany

Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) · 1876 · New York : E.P. Coby & Co., printers and stationers · 2 pictures

A photographic album plate from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, printed in New York by E.P. Coby & Co., showing the cast-steel display of Fried. Krupp of Essen, Germany, for an audience of exhibition visitors and industrial readers. The two views show large steel guns, gun barrels and machinery set among flags and trophies under a glazed hall roof, offering a designer dense, monochrome industrial stagecraft with strong sepia tonal contrast and ordered rows of display objects.

Steel castings · Exhibitions · Steelwork · Steel, Cast · Steel castings industry · Essen · Steel castings -- Exhibitions · Steelwork -- Exhibitions · Steel, Cast -- Exhibitions · Steel castings industry -- Germany -- Essen -- Exhibitions

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