Centennial Exhibition: Overview

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How to use this site

The site is divided into 5 areas. These are reflected in the main menu items. Each menu item contains within it subsections determined by theme or function.

Overview - Background on the website, the archival collection, the digitization process, and the funding

Website, how to use this site, credits
The Collection, the Centennial Photographic Company and location of and access information
Technical information about the digitization process
Grants and funding
Copyright and reprographic information

Exhibition facts - How the Centennial was planned and executed

Brief information situating the event in context.
Organization, Attendance, Costs, etc.

Statistics
Centennial Officials

Timeline
Foreign Representation
Occasional music
- Sheet Music Bibliography
Impact
Period Testimony
Further reading and weblinks

Tours - the places and exhibits of the Centennial Exhibition "Don't Miss" item (items that are unique and might otherwise be overlooked in the larger collection) Diary: My trip to Philadelphia in 1876

"Arrival" text. Situates user in the space and time of the Exhibition
Point-and-click map, "balloon view." and imagemap navigation device.
Drop down menus including:
- Exhibition Buildings. Move from article to article by compass-point links, or by persistent jump menu.
- Whatever happened to... jump menu

Centennial Schoolhouse - One objective of the Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection is to present an electronic visit to the fair and make history come alive for students, teachers, parents, and others. Here are some activities and elements that are particularly geared to that objective. Don't Miss: "Timeline"

Children's Books and the Centennial Exhibit
Diary
Put together a paper model of Memorial Hall (c180440,c180441,c180442,c180443)
Study and Teaching Resources

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CEDC Identifiers

The heart of this digitized collection is the approximately 1200 silver albumen photographs taken by the Centennial Photographic Company (CPC). However, other types of materials were included in the collection to provide a broader historical context. Below is the list of CEDC identifiers used to classify and number individual items along with a tally of the number of individual items contained in each category.

CEDC Identifier Formulation Scheme Revised 11/21/00

Format = cxxnnnn Consists of 7 alpha/numeric characters in lower case

First character = c (for Centennial Exposition Digital Collection [CEDC]) Next two characters identify the format and take the form, xx where.

Series
Number of items

01 = Series I Photographs (4.5x7.75 inches)
229

02 = Series II Photographs (8x10 inches)
573

03 = Series III Photographs (13x16 inches)
39

04 = Series IIIA Photographs (17x21 inches)
30

05 = Sample Album Photographs (half stereoviews)
60

06 = Stereoview

265

07 = Hand-written diary of teenager Frank L. Thomas

40

08 = Children's Book

36

09 = Lithographs

51

10 = Sheet Music

29

11 = Tradecard

32

12 = Stereoview (non CPC)

21

13 = Robert Newell & Son Construction Photographs

22

14 = James Cremer Photographs

4

15 = Engravings

2

16 = Realia

4

17 = Portrait Photographs by William Curtis Taylor

84

18 = Scrapbook (interesting illustrations includes Shantytown, Women's Rights Proclamation, Popcorn Stand, Visitor's Passes, etc.)

27

19 = Maps (includes Harper's Weekly, Balloon View of the Grounds)
3

Next four characters are either consecutive numbers for non-photograph formats or CPC numbers from the CPC catalog or photograph and range from 0001-9999. Some numbers will be artificially created where the CPC numbering is greater than 4 digits (i.e. 2635A (CPC number) = 4000, 2635B = 4001, 2635C = 4002, etc.)

For example:c062063 translates to:
c = CEDC (Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection)
06 = stereoview
2063 = CPC photo number

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