Introduction: Looking Forward from the Centennial

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Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876

Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall

Exposition treat

Viewing the fair grounds from the Liberty Torch

Missouri River Bridge under construction, 1873

Visitors marvel at a tower of Leviathan Paper

Picnickers on the lawn outside the Main Building

Exposition guidebooks

“Panic of 1873”

Cartoonist Thomas Nast, “Panic on Wall Street,” 1876

William Beard, “Bulls and Bears in the Market,” 1879

San Francisco Labor Riot, 1877