A Grand Failure: The Centennial Indian Exhibition of 1876

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Summary

Work discusses the Indian exhibition at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and Baird's influence on the exhibit. Explores Baird's relationship with exhibitions and provides information on explorations such as that of Edward Palmer to southern Utah, Paul Schumacher to the Pacific Coast and James Swan to Alaska, as well as expeditions by J.W. Powell.

Subject

  • Powell, John Wesley 1834-1902
  • Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
  • Swan, James Gilchrist
  • Palmer, Edward
  • Schumacher, Paul
  • Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

Includes photographs and extensive footnotes.

Contained within

Prologue Vol. 6 (Journal)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

Summer 1974

Topic

  • Scientific expeditions
  • Ethnology
  • National Collections

Place

North America

Physical description

pp. 118-129

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