The illustrated history of the Centennial exhibition, held in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence. With a full description of the great buildings and all the objects of interest exhibited in them ... to which is added a complete description of the city of Philadelphia
An 1877 illustrated survey of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, written by James Dabney McCabe and published in Philadelphia by the National Publishing Company for a general American readership. The pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings of churches, exhibition objects such as a Japanese bronze vase, a railway line running beside a river, and a portrait of a bewigged man, giving a designer period detail in line-engraved style.
