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Display of Fireworks at Philadelphia

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Item No: pdcc00160
Title: Display of Fireworks at Philadelphia
Historic Street Address: Broad & Market Streets
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Illustration of people gathered to watch a firework display centered around a grand structure consisting of three tall archways. Above these arches the following words are highlighted : July 4th 1776 Liberty & Union Now and Forever One and Inseperable. An enormous firework pinwheel spins in the central arch. Fireworks light the sky.

The words Broad & Market 1851 are written in pencil below the print.


Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.3
Creator Name: Devereux, Nicholson B., approximately 1813- - Artist
Worcester & Co. - Engraver
Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler