{"id":243127,"date":"2026-07-14T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243127\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:03:07","slug":"as-america-marks-250-years-a-new-exhibit-revisits-1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243127\/","title":{"rendered":"As America marks 250 years, a new exhibit Revisits 1876"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MARKET EAST (WPVI) &#8212; There&#8217;s a new exhibit inside the old Lits Department Store at 8th and Market streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Revisit 1876 explores Philadelphia&#8217;s Centennial Exposition through historic artifacts, immersive displays, and stories from four of the fair&#8217;s major pavilions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Centennial was the first World&#8217;s Fair in North America, and it drew nearly 10 million people from around the world to Fairmount Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Visitors can see how the event introduced inventions like Alexander Graham Bell&#8217;s telephone and the Remington typewriter, showcased industrial might, and brought surprising novelties-including  the banana and a suitcase that converted to a bathtub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The exhibit, created by Center City District, also examines who was excluded from the celebration and connects the 1876 fair to Philadelphia today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/centercityphila.org\/initiative\/revisit-1876\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Revisit 1876<\/a><br class=\" \"\/>The Lits Building, 8th &amp; Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106<br class=\" \"\/>Monday-Saturday,  10 a.m.-6 p.m., through December <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARKET EAST (WPVI) &#8212; There&#8217;s a new exhibit inside the old Lits Department Store at 8th and Market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[104207,4000,104205,5453,104206,69,71,70,104204],"class_list":["post-243127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-104207","tag-america-250","tag-centennial-exhibition","tag-fyi-philly","tag-lits-department-store","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-revisit-1876"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}