[PW] exhibition of national artifacts

[Mary Lou White]

Kevin,
Here's something that tells about its visit to several places, including
pictures.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/36liberty/36liberty.htm
There is a 1904 World's Fair Society, http://www.1904worldsfairsociety.org/,
if you'd like to know more about the bell at the fair.  I don't know what
other historic items might have been shown, as I don't find a list.
The Liberty Bell was also display at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in
1893.  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/WCE/tour2.html

The aluminum cap of the Washington Monument was on display at Tiffany's in
1884, before it was put in place.
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9511/Binczewski-9511.html
						Mary Lou White

> > From: Kevin O'Kelly <rkokelly at yahoo.com>
> > To: <list at project-wombat.org>
> > Date: 3/1/2008 11:34:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PW] exhibition of national artifacts
> >
> >  I am working on the next installment of a feature of my library's local
> history webpage--an image of an item in our special collections plus a
> little text about it. The item in question is a photo of the Liberty Bell
> during its June 1903 visit to the Boston area. I would like to comment on
> the public tours and exhibitions of national artifacts pre-World War I. As
> insane as it seems to us now, I am getting the impression that it was a
> quite common practice, especially in the nation's earliest days, and I
> would like to know a little bit more about it.
> >
> >   Unfortunately, I can't get into JSTOR or America: History and Life at
> the moment.
> >
> >   Thanks in advance,
> >
> >   Kevin
> >
> >
> >
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