Culin Archival Collection Series 8: Expositions 1892-1927 1892-1893, 1925-1927 (bulk).

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Culin Archival Collection Series 8: Expositions 1892-1927 1892-1893, 1925-1927 (bulk).

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The material in Series 8 relates to three expositions for which Culin organized exhibitions: The Columbian Historical Exposition, Madrid (1892-93); the World's Columbian Exposition (1893); and the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial (1926). Although this material does not exhaustively document Culin's involvement, these expositions are represented with printed material including clippings, programs, illustrations, calling cards, flyers, menus, tickets, invitations, certificates, and lists. This material does not detail Culin's preparation and installation of the exhibitions.

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Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid, Spain)

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Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929.

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Culin was University of Pennsylvania museum director from 1892. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1892-1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226042711 Stewart Culin (1858-1929), ethnologist and museum curator, worked at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of archaeology and Anthropology from 1890 to 1903, and served as Curator of Ethnology at The Brooklyn Museum from 1903 until his death. From the descr...