Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ks of art and this occasion about one hundred acres were set apart for the variousbuildings, the exhibitors numbered some eighty thousand, the gross receiptswere upward of $2,500,000, and 16,032,725 visitors were registered. The third worlds exhibition in the United States was held
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ks of art and this occasion about one hundred acres were set apart for the variousbuildings, the exhibitors numbered some eighty thousand, the gross receiptswere upward of $2,500,000, and 16,032,725 visitors were registered. The third worlds exhibition in the United States was held in New (>r-leans during the winter of 1884-85, and was planned to commemorate thecentennial of the first export of cotton from America. The conception wasan outgrowth of the exposition in Philadelphia, and was first carried out ona limited scale in Atlanta in 1881, and on a larger one in Louisville in the belief that the cotton centennial should be celebrated in the chiefcity of the cotton belt, the National Cotton Planters Association joined heart-ily in the scheme suggested by Major E. A. Burke, of New Orleans, for auniversal exhibition in that city, in which the great industry of the SouthernStates should play the most prominent part. Congress aided the movement **•- Sfife^-. 1 irniiiiiiiiiii ; e m >?•???-?•?? .; :-. flllllf -1 ill
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