The American Centennial Exhibition: one of the Principal Streets in Philadelphia, 1876. 'The guidebook published by Messrs. J. B. Lippincott and another publication of theirs,"Philadelphia and its Environs," give a full and exact description - the former of the Exhibition, the latter of the city'. A shop selling bananas and watermelons, African American boy with a parcel, veterans begging, semi-paved road, people out shopping. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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