[Lithograph]. [Philadelphia]. BIEN (Julius). [Philadelphia's - Lot 273

[Lithograph]. [Philadelphia]. BIEN (Julius). [Philadelphia's 1876 "Centennial Exposition"]. New York, G. Meyer, c.1876. 5 photolithographs, 71 x 51 cm. (some restoration). Views of the 5 principal monuments of Philadelphia's 1876 "Centennial Exposition" celebrating the centennial of American independence, photolithographed by German-born American lithographer Julius Bien. Born in 1826, he emigrated to New York in the late 1840s and established a lithographic studio there in 1850. He enjoyed great success in scientific production, publishing numerous geographical and scientific works, such as atlases, geological and hydrographic maps. The exhibition took place over 115 hectares in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, from May 10 to November 10, 1876. Thirty-seven nations participated in the event, and nearly ten million visitors came by rail, steamboat, horse-drawn carriage or even on foot. The site comprised five main buildings: the main building, nearly 580 meters long, the art gallery, the machine hall, the agricultural hall and the horticultural hall. Around 250 other smaller structures built by states, countries and companies were scattered around the site. (after Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia A Descriptive Record of the History , Volume 3, p. 209 Who's Who in America, 1901-02).