This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com  in 2016. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! In 1876, the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition kicked off the craze for...

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com  in 2014. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! In the years between the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 and the...

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2014. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! This post was inspired by a book in the museum ’ s collection titled Frank...