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• National Gallery of Art
• Digital Archive of American Architecture

Rubric for America at the Centennial: Step 3

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Print Resources for America at the Centennial

• Weymouth, Lally. America in 1876: The Way We Were. Designed by Milton Glaser. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.
• Schlereth, Thomas J. Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
• Levine, Bruce, et al., eds. Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society. Vol. I (From Conquest and Colonization through Reconstruction and the Great Uprising). New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.
• "Appeal for a Sixteenth Amendment" from the National Woman Suffrage Association, in Our Mothers Before Us: Women and Democracy, 1789-1920. An Educational Document Resource. The Foundation for the National Archives and the Center for Legislative Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1998. Used by permission.

American Memory

• Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
• By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
• Emergence of Advertising in America: Broadsides (Duke University)
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
• History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
• Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
• Map Collections: 1500-1999
• The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
• Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s

Written Accounts of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition

From The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books and The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals

• "Go all to the Centennial." [Manufacturer and Builder. Volume 8, Issue 9, September 1876]
  • Page 202
• James D. McCabe. Description of the opening of the Exhibition. In The illustrated history of the Centennial exhibition... [Philadelphia, Pa. & Chicago, Ill.: The National Publishing Co., 1876]
  • Page 267
• William Dean Howells. "A Sennight of the Centennial." [The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 38, Issue 225, July 1876]
  • Page 93
  • Page 94
• A description of the restaurants at the Centennial Exhibition by William Dean Howells. "A Sennight of the Centennial." [The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 38, Issue 225, July 1876]
  • Page 106
• "Machinery at the Centennial Exhibition." [Manufacturer and Builder. Volume 7, Issue 10, October 1875]
  • Page 232
• "Indian Encampment at the Centennial." [Manufacturer and Builder. Volume 7, Issue 10, October 1875]
  • Page 234
  A description of the Indian encampment from McCabe's The illustrated history of the Centennial exhibition...
  • Page 330
• Charles Wylys Elliott. "Art at the Centennial." [The Galaxy. Volume 22, Issue 4, October 1876]
  • Pages 489-499
• "The Exhibits in the Main Hall and Machinery Hall." [Manufacturer and Builder. Volume 8, Issue 11, November 1876]
  • Page 244
  • Page 245
• J. S. Ingram. "History of the Centennial Exhibition." In James Dabney McCabe's A comprehensive view of our country and its resources... [Philadelphia: Springfield, Mass. [etc.] Hubbard brothers, 1876]
  • Page 1225-1241
• Edward H. Knight. "Crude and Curious Events at the Centennial Exhibition, I." [The Atlantic Monthly. Volume 39, Issue 235, May 1877]
  • Pages 517-529

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