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Excerpt from Report of the Twenty-Seventh Exhibition of American Manufactures: Held in the City of Philadelphia, From October 6th, to November 12th, 1874, by the Franklin Institute, of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts The first movement towards the Exhibition was at the stated meet ing of the Institute held February 18, 1874, when, on motion of Mr. G. Morgan Eldridge, the subject was referred to the Committee on Exhibitions. The Committee lost no time in addressing a letter to J. Edgar Thompson, Esq., late President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, making an application for the use of their depot on Market Street, between Thirteenth and Juniper Streets, for the purpose of an Exhibition. This application having been laid before the Board of Directors, and favorably entertained by it, the President (mr. Thompson) was authorized to act, which he did by Ithe letter of his assistant, Strickland Kneass, Esq., dated the 17th of March, placing the depot at our disposal during the months of September and Octo ber, 1874. Thus, by the exercise of the greatest liberality on the part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Institute had, for the first time for many years, the opportunity of holding an Exhibi tion under promising conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.