The U.S.A between 1776 and 1876. Engraving by G.W. Casilear for the Centennial International Exhibition, ca. 1876.

Top centre, a woman representing Liberty, wearing the Phrygian cap. Left of her are people representing South America and Europe, while on the right are their equivalents for India, Africa and China. Below Liberty are busts of the presidents in 1776 and 1876: on the left George Washington, and on the right Ulysses S. Grant. Below on the left are a gold miner, a cotton grower, wheat grower, a trapper and a Native American, balanced on the right by soldiers, a sailor, an engineer, a black man reading a book, and a man operating a jig

Bottom centre, the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, after the painting by John Trumbull. Bottom left and right, vignettes showing changes: agriculture (from scything to use of a mechanical tiller), transport (from the ox-waggon to the railroad), and shipping (from sailing boats to the steamship); on the right, a Native American weeps as his horse goes to work for a mill, and industrial buildings fill the former plain stretching to the horizon. Other vignettes show Liberty Hall in Philadelphia and the Capitol in Washington D.C.; men with models of different types of ship; Benjamin Franklin and another man with electrical devices; the American eagle and American flag

[Philadelphia?] : Centennial Board of Finance 1776, [1876?]

1 print : engraving ; image and lettering 39.2 x 52 cm

United States Centennial International Exhibition, 1776-1876 Certificate ... Engraved & printed at the Bureau, Engraving & Printing. Geo. B. McCartee, Chief of Bureau. Geo. W. Casilear, Sup.t of Engraving.

Wellcome Collection 2970762i