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Description: | This silk bookmark is a souvenir of the 1869 South Staffordshire Industrial & Fine Arts Exhibition. The exhibition was held in the grounds of Molineux House for five months from May 1869. Manufacturers from Wolverhampton and surrounding area proudly displayed their products.The exhibition was a great triumph for Wolverhampton industry. It was also hoped that the displays would inspire the people of Wolverhampton to continue the town's flair for design. As Earl Granville said in his speech to open the exhibition:"The treasures of art and the products of skilled industry, both past and present, collected within these walls are invaluable by suggesting ideas and planting seeds that should bear good fruit in the future, and instill into their minds a will and taste for the beautiful and the refined".
Silk bookmark: a souvenir of the South Staffordshire Industrial Fine Arts Exhibition held in Wolverhampton in 1869 | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Local history Miscellaneous Historical Objects Victorian period | Temporal: | 1869
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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