OFFICIAL CATALOGUE.—ADVERTISEMENTS 
UNITED STATES 
1776-InternationalExhibition-1876 
IN 
Commemoration 
OF THE 
ONE HUNOREDTH BIRTHDAY 
OF THE NATION. 
The Congress of the United States of America having enacted that an International 
Exhibition should be held in the City of Philadelphia, in .876, public attention >s now 
invited to the proposed programme. 
This Exhibition is to be international and universal-international, inasmuch as all 
nations will be invited to participate in it; and universal, because it will mclude a 
representation of all natural and artificial products, all arte, industr.es, and manufactures, 
and all the varied results of human skill, thought, and Imagination. 
The outlines of a simple yet comprehensive Classification have been adopted. Therc 
will beten departments, each subdivided into ten groups, and these agam mto classes. 
The details of this Classification are now being elaborated, and will be publ.shed in du 
season, together with such rules and regulations as may be found necessary for the prope 
conduct and management of the Exhibition. 
It is intended that a.nple space shall be assigned to each state, territory, and1 foreign 
country, for a just and proper display of its products. It is beheved that noUess than 
fifty square acres of floor space, under roof, will be requ.red for this purpo e A srte 
combining the advantages of a sufficient extent of level ground, with p,c uresque and 
cultivated surroundings, easy of access by ndl, by water, and byordmry-twdjhasb 
assigned for the buildings in the grounds of Fairmount Park, in the Ci . ' p 
The Exhibition is to bc opened on Wednesday, April 19Ü1, 1876, w *‘ h * PP ™ P ™ te 
ceremonies, in which the President of the United States, the Member« of the Cabme , 
Governors of States, Senators, &c„ together with Representat.ves of all Foreign Na , 
will participate. 
A cordial Invitation is extended to every nation of the earth, to contribute illustrations 
of its arts, industries, progress, and development*. 
_ ,, üTT Hon. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, 
Hon. Daniel J Morrell 
Chairman of Exec. Com 
Hon. Lewis Waln Smith, 
Secretary.