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Centennial Exposition Opening Day

    The Centennial Exposition opened in the rain on 10 May 1876. More than 100,000 people overflowed the Avenue of the Republic between Main Hall (right) and Memorial Hall to witness the inaugural ceremony. 

    1876
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Attribution/Credit

    James Dabney McCabe, The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exposition Held in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of American Independence(Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1876); image reproduced in “Centennial Exposition,” Wikipedia.