Journal of the Proceedings of the United States Centennial Commission at PhiladelphiaE.C. Markley & Son, printers, 422 Library Street., 1872 - 82 頁 |
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Act of Congress adjourn agreed Alabama Alabama-William ALPHEUS FELCH Alternate Com'r Alternate Commissioner Article arts ASA PACKER BATCHELDER BAXTER Blake By-Laws BYRD California-John Dunbar Creigh CAMPBELL celebration Centennial Anniversary Centennial Commission Centennial Committee Chairman City of Philadelphia Colorado-J Commis Committee on Permanent COMMON COUNCIL CHAMBER Connecticut CORLISS Dakota Dakota-George DAVID ATWOOD duties elect Executive Committee Exposition galleries GENTLEMEN Georgia HAWLEY HENRY PROBASCO honor Indiana industrial International Exhibition Iowa JAMES BIRNEY Jersey JOHN DUNBAR CREIGH JOHN G JOHN L JOHN LYNCH JOHN V. L. PRUYN JOSHUA NYE labor LAMBORN LEWIS WALN SMITH Louisiana-John Lynch Maine-Joshua Nye MARSHALL PAUL meeting mission MORRELL Moved o'clock Offered the following ORESTES CLEVELAND Pennsylvania PROSSER Resolved Rhode Island-George H ROBERT LOWRY SOLOMON L SPINK spoke as follows SWEENEY Temporary Secretary Territories thanks Thee tion unanimously adopted United States Centennial Utah-John H WICKIZER WILLIAM F WILLIAM HENRY PARSONS Wisconsin Wisconsin-David Atwood Wyoming-Robert York
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第 80 頁 - China, her curious workmanship, the result of accumlated ingenuity reaching back beyond the time when history began. Matchless wood-work from Japan, and from far India her treasures rare and wonderful. Turkey and Persia shall bring their gorgeous fabrics to diversify and stimulate our taste. The Queen of the East, passing the Suez Canal, shall cross the great deep and bow her turbaned head to this young giant of the West, and he shall point her people to the source of his vast powers, the education...
第 3 頁 - An act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of American Independence by holding an international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine, in the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, in the year 1876," to which he was appointed by the President of the United States under the provisions of said act.
第 33 頁 - March third, 1871, referred to in the preamble to this act, shall have all the powers of a commissioner when the commissioner is not present at any meeting. When the commissioner is present the alternate may participate in the debates and serve on committees, but shall have no vote. The...
第 61 頁 - By following one of these galleries the observer passed in succession among the productions similar in kind of different countries. By following the avenues he passed successively through the different productions of the same country. The student therefore could investigate the condition of any particular art or industry as manifested by different nations, or he could pursue his studies geographically and note the characteristic productions of each country, and compare them as a whole with those...
第 41 頁 - ... the President shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation of the same, setting forth the time at which the exhibition will open and the place at which it will be held; and he shall communicate to the diplomatic representatives of all nations copies of the same, together with such regulations as may be adopted by the commissioners, for publication in their respective countries.
第 59 頁 - The buildings erected for previous great exhibitions are generally known as palaces, but the structure on the Champ de Mars had nothing in its appearance, as our previous remarks have hinted, suggestive of the name. In its plan and construction architectural effects were subordinated to the great end in view — the exhibition of the objects of all nations in such a manner as to invite and facilitate comparison and study.
第 65 頁 - Their beneficent influences are many and widespread ; they advance human knowledge in all directions. Through the universal language of the products of labor the artisans of all countries hold communication ; ancient prejudices are broken down ; nations are fraternized ; generous rivalries in the peaceful fields of industry are excited ; the tendencies to war are lessened, and a better understanding between capital and labor is fostered. . . . One of their most salutary results is the promotion of...
第 61 頁 - GROUP X. ARTICLES EXHIBITED WITH THE SPECIAL OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.
第 80 頁 - From the international exhibition of 1876 the education of skilled labor, iu this country at least, is to take a new departure, and we hope the effect will be felt also, in some measure, by every civilized nation. Here will be spread out before us the manufactures of Great Britain, the source of all her power. From France will come articles of taste and utility, exquisite in design and perfect in execution. From Russia, iron and leather no nation has yet learned to produce. From Berlin and Munich,...
第 80 頁 - Spain, to whose daring and public spirit nearly four centuries hack we owe the possibilities of this hour, shall come the evidence of a foretime greatness, now unhappily faded away for want of education amongst the mass of her people. From Nineveh and Pompeii the evidences of a buried past. The progress of the applied arts will be shown from all Europe. From China, her curious workmanship, the result of accumulated ingenuity reaching back beyond the time when history began. Matchless wood-work from...