Register of visitors to Massachusetts building at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876.

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Register of visitors to Massachusetts building at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876.

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The governor and council made an appropriation for an exhibition of arts, industries, and institutions of the Commonwealth at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia (Resolves 1875, c 71). This series was created to register visitors to the Massachusetts building at the exhibition.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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