1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia
This is our Great Grandfather (on my mother’s side) Peter Bolger’s Ticket Stub / ID for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. It went on for three months on the Belmont Plateau (you might want to link a google image of the grounds and buildings from that time) in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park looking over the Schuylkill River.
If you look closely one can see 1876 right beneath his collar and the words Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia wrapping around his photo.
Around the outer edge you can see the days that were punched when he attended which appears to be over 60 of the 90 days total between Sept, Oct (you can see this month there) and November.
He went so many times because at the time he was a reporter for the Philadelphia Newspaper “The Public Ledger”. He later became fairly well known in Pennsylvania as the Political Editor of “The Philadelphia Record”
Family lore has it that he interviewed and spent time with U.S. Grant at the exhibition.
