Catalogue of the British Section.—Appendix. 
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UNITED STATES 
1776-InternationalExhibition-1876 
IN 
Commemoration 
OF THE 
ONE HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY 
OF THE NATION. 
♦•••♦ 
The Congress of the United States of America having enacted tliat an International 
Exhibition should be held in the City of Philadelphia, in 1876, public attention is 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 include a 
representation of all natural and artificial products, all arts, industries, and manufactures, 
and all the varied results of human skill, thought, and imagination. 
The outlines of a simple yet comprehensive Classification have been adopted. There 
will be ten departments, each subdivided into ten groups, and these again into classes. 
The details of this Classification are now being elaborated, and will be published in due 
season, together with such rules and regulations as may be found necessary for the proper 
conduct and management of the Exhibition. 
It is intended that ample space shall be assigned to each state, territory, and foreign 
country, for a just and proper display of its products. It is believed that not less than 
fifty square acres of floor space, under roof, will be required for this purpose. A site 
combining the advantages of a sufficient extent of level ground, with picturesque and 
cultivated surroundings, easy of access by rail, by water, and by ordinary roads, has been 
assigned for the buildings in the grounds of Fairmount Park, in the City of Philadelphia. 
The Exhibition is to be opened on Wednesday, April igth, 1876, with appropriate 
ceremonies, in which the President of the United States, the Members of the Cabinet, 
Governors of States, Senators, &c., together with Representatives of all Foreign Nations, 
will participate. 
A cordial invitation is extended to every nation of the earth, to contribute illustrations 
of its arts, industries, progress, and developments. 
Hon. Daniel J. Morrell, Hon. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, 
Chairman of Exec. Com. President. 
Hon. Lewis Waln Smith, 
Secretary.