Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — Woman at the Centennial. [ARTICLE]

Woman at the Centennial.

ONE of the most interesting features of the World’s Fair, at Philadelphia, will be the Women’s Department—not a department merely presidMl over by women, bat oae devoted exclusively to the exhibition of the products of woman’s invention, genius, and the results of ,her'industrial

pnnralta. The proposition to fire the Fair auch a feature was first made in 1979, when several women of Philadelphia set to work and raised some $05,000 for the purpose. After that, applications for space to exhibit women's Achievement* In the arts came in ao fast, from foreign countries, as well as from different ports of the United States, that it was determined to construct a special pavilion and make the women's exhibition a separate depart merit. The women of Philadelphia responded promptly with subscriptions amounting to $15,(W0; Ohio followed with $15,000, and Massachusetts subscribed $5,000 more. This leaves about $15,000 still to l>e raised before the pavilion can be comp eted, and the women of New York have undertaken to make up that balance.— N. T World.