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*Book: [http://archive.org/details/sesquicentennial00aust The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition: 150 Years of American Independence] (520pp, at Internet Archive)
*Links: [http://www.studylove.org/worldsfairs16.html#1926 1926 Philadelphia (Non-BIE)].  
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*Links: [http://www.studylove.org/worldsfairs16.html#1926 1926 Philadelphia (Non-BIE)]
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*Music: [http://archive.org/details/78_philadelphia-all-the-time_arthur-pryors-band-dieck-murphy-shisler_gbia0129963a Philadelphia (All the Time)--March (The Sesqui-Centennial Song) (Dieck-Murphy-Shister) (Arthur Pryor's Band with male chorus)] (audio, 2m58s, at Internet Archive)
 
*Music: [http://archive.org/details/78_the-sesqui-centennial-exposition-march_sousas-band-john-philip-sousa_gbia0129963b Sesqui-Centennial Exposition March (John Philip Sousa) (performed by Sousa's Band)]  (audio, 3m14s, at Internet Archive)
 
*Music: [http://archive.org/details/78_the-sesqui-centennial-exposition-march_sousas-band-john-philip-sousa_gbia0129963b Sesqui-Centennial Exposition March (John Philip Sousa) (performed by Sousa's Band)]  (audio, 3m14s, at Internet Archive)
*Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXaW2o5sEc8 The Sesquicentennial of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence] (YouTube, documentary, 24m06s)
 
 
 
 
*Photos: [http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Search.aspx?type=area&withoutLoc=true&collections=DOR%20Archives%20-%20Sesquicentennial&updateDays=0&sortOrderM=Distance&minx=2636433.75&miny=169567.5&maxx=2750433.75&maxy=302567.5&start=0&limit=12&mstart=0&mlimit=12 DOR Archives: Sesquicentennial] (photo search results at phillyhistory.org)
 
*Photos: [http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Search.aspx?type=area&withoutLoc=true&collections=DOR%20Archives%20-%20Sesquicentennial&updateDays=0&sortOrderM=Distance&minx=2636433.75&miny=169567.5&maxx=2750433.75&maxy=302567.5&start=0&limit=12&mstart=0&mlimit=12 DOR Archives: Sesquicentennial] (photo search results at phillyhistory.org)
 
*Presentation: [http://hamiltonphilatelic.org/presentations/sesquicentennial.pdf Sesquicentennial International Exposition] (PDF about the Exposition and its postage stamps, 113pp, at hamiltonphilatelic.org)
 
*Presentation: [http://hamiltonphilatelic.org/presentations/sesquicentennial.pdf Sesquicentennial International Exposition] (PDF about the Exposition and its postage stamps, 113pp, at hamiltonphilatelic.org)
*Records: [http://www.phila.gov/phils/Docs/Inventor/graphics/agencies/A232.htm Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition Association] (at Phila. Dept. of Records)
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*Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7_s7whUJ6s Jack Dempsey Loses Crown to Gene Tunney This Day September 23, 1926 (Boxing Hall of Fame)] (YouTube, documentary, 10m47s)  
*Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVtQWGvZVDk Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition Philadelphia 1926] (YouTube, pictures with music, 3m28s)
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*Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXaW2o5sEc8 The Sesquicentennial of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence] (YouTube, documentary, 24m06s)
*Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_XBdVhqcGw Postcard Views] (YouTube, silent, 1m44s)
 
  
 
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After years of bickering among Philadelphians, the Sesquicentennial opened in 1926 and welcomed visitors to South Philadelphia with a Liberty Bell lit by 26,000 electric bulbs.

In 1926, Philadelphia hosted the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, a world’s fair, to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Although it opened to great fanfare, the exposition failed to attract enough visitors to cover its costs. The fair organization went into receivership in 1927 and its assets were sold at auction.

The idea to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence by holding a world’s fair originated in 1916 with John Wanamaker (1838-1922), owner of Wanamaker’s department stores and lone survivor of the 1876 Centennial Exposition’s Finance Committee, who called upon Philadelphia to host an industrial and commercial exposition that would fittingly mark the birth of the United States. World War I temporarily derailed planning, but in 1920, Mayor J. Hampton Moore (1864-1950) and a group of leading citizens took up the effort; they incorporated the Sesquicentennial Exhibition Association (SCEA) in 1921.

Note:  The above descriptive information came from Philadelphia Encyclopedia.

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