SH Archive Exposition Diplomas: Expo's were schools?

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A Diploma​

A diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as college or university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study. The word diploma also refers to an academic award which is given after the completion of study in different courses such as diploma in higher education, diploma in graduation or diploma in post graduation etc.

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Exposition Diplomas?​

There obviously are many other ones out there. The question is whether these were attendance/graduation diplomas, or some awards achievement certificates for those who provided the exhibits. Any thoughts in this?

Passed any photography exams lately?


1893 Chicago?

Original Award Certificate from 1893 Columbian Exposition.
Signed and dated June 9th, 1894.

1895 Bordeaux


1897 Bruxelles


1898 Omaha, Nebraska


1900 Paris


1904 St. Louis

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Username: wooptywoop
Date: 2019-10-25 07:28:20
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Were these made with Photoshop?

 

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Username: studytruth
Date: 2019-10-25 08:18:32
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These are very interesting finds. Through all of my research the last 8 months have never come across these...so well done KD.

The first question to ask is about the 1904 attendance certificate. If it is true that EVERYONE who attended got one (as it is what the certificate seems to indicate) then there should have been what 20 million of them given out (as it is suggested that 19.6 million people attended). Yet today we have only 1 it seems, the one that is selling on Amazon right now that you have shown above. Ok yes paper over 100 years should get lost and thrown out and whatnot. But we still have a lot of packrats in the world, even back then. A few of 20 million should have survived. It is of a famous historical event of the city. Some family members should have kept them, traded them, sold them over time. Yet searching around...nothing.
So what the hell was it? Is is a "modern fake" as woopty sort of makes reference to above? Did they make a few and give them only to select people? If so who were the select people and why chosen?

This more suggests not "attendance to the fair itself" but more like you would get at a modern convention or trade show. So maybe this was only for venders, or select guests or something. But still a "certificate" just for attending anything seems goofy. But then again we have been giving out sports "participation" trophies to kids for years.
Then again maybe this was for kids...maybe as we suggest the whole thing of the fairs was somehow a giant set up for indoctrination of children.

 

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Username: jd755
Date: 2019-10-25 11:51:12
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I've come across many references to the "educational aspect" of these expositions, at least in the American land mass expositions. It seems there was always a degree of such 'philanthropy' required either by the promoters/directors or a requirement to get certain institutions, exhibits on board.
All of the ethnographic displays were "educational" as far fetched as it seems in the current social regime norms. These events really do feel to me, always to me, to be quite literally selling two ideas, notions, aspirations into 'the public mind' to obfuscate the memories of man is god god is man where buying and sellling, ownership, nation identity have no place. Those ideas being authority is a benign ruler and technology is superior to anything that has gone before,.

 

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Source: C J @flickr

 

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2019-10-25 14:42:04
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Like the Junior Park Ranger programs!
Let the kids tell the adults how it is...
How many displays of inhumanity can you find? How many savage "less than white" humanoids? How many statuesque breasts?...

 

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Username: Raviolli
Date: 2019-10-25 15:14:41
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Were these made with Photoshop?

I thought the same thing, as if they were designed in Photoshop.

 

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Username: HulkSmash
Date: 2019-10-25 15:25:30
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Its my belief these 'diplomas' or 'certificates' are just a material component to the grand 'spell' being cast with these expos. An artifact of sorts to commemorate the history stealing fiction and make it fact. Its a part of the method used to create this whole 'appeal to authority'. Give a "receipt" of sorts, something very formal and professional looking, signed by 'authorities', and voila, you have a commemorative that solidifies the spell, turning the whole subject real for posterity.

 

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Username: aero618
Date: 2019-10-25 19:38:10
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I would suppose these "Diplomas", some awarded on merit (Columbian), or thanks (Buffalo) or even just as a visitor (St.Louis) were a "memento" to hang in the office to show you were there and "part of the team"~ the new free trade, the free world outside of an Empirical umbrella, an international citizen. The stranglehold of Empires were falling away in the late 1800's- a final gesture was maybe the US White Fleet world tour 1907/9 ~ touring the world showing "elites" from distant peoples there was a free trade world outside of Britain/Japan & the like. Lookup Messiuers Burroughs, Wellcome & Co (Bruxells), they evolved to be one of the largest current pharmaceutical Burroughs, Wellcome and Co - Graces Guide.
A way into "the club", no more under the cosh of divine rule, Darwin & science were well and truely center stage.

 

[AthroposRex]

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Date: 2019-10-27 00:21:14
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A Diploma

A diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as college or university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study. The word diploma also refers to an academic award which is given after the completion of study in different courses such as diploma in higher education, diploma in graduation or diploma in post graduation etc.

• Diploma - Wikipedia

Exposition Diplomas?

There obviously are many other ones out there. The question is whether these were attendance/graduation diplomas, or some awards achievement certificates for those who provided the exhibits. Any thoughts in this?

Passed any photography exams lately?
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1893 Chicago?
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Original Award Certificate from 1893 Columbian Exposition.
Signed and dated June 9th, 1894.

1895 Bordeaux
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1897 Bruxelles
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1898 Omaha, Nebraska
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1900 Paris
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1904 St. Louis
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So maybe every "exposition" is like a cyclical celebration of all output from a multidisciplinary advanced technological University at the height of the previous Grand Unified Culture?

It might explain the temporary nature of them as well as their worldwide attraction.

In a unified society, the expositions could have been an Olympics of sorts. Each region showing off its best and brightest talent around the globe.

 

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2019-10-27 00:24:11
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I have not seen any sign of Christianity in any of those expo related commemorative items. Paganism everywhere...

 

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Date: 2019-10-29 22:43:27
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No message

 

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2019-10-29 23:07:15
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I once received a "Degree of Certainty" from sending in 12 Cheerios box tops....does that count the same?

What's the point of this message, and how is it related to this thread?

 

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Username: inquisitor
Date: 2019-11-02 06:47:37
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A diploma can be issued for anything - completion of an education, confirmation of nobility, recognition of a deed or an act, or apparently for certainty for sending in 12 Cheerios box tops (per JWW427). Who knows what they were issued for, but I am inclined towards the likelihood that they were issued in order to give recognition to a deed or an act.

Maybe they had competitions? Based on the last one from the Pan-Am Expo in Buffalo, it was awarded by a 'jury' of some kind so it sounds like there may have been some sort of a competition. Maybe it was the inventors' and innovators' equivalent of American Idol or The Voice? I'm not sure what 'Valuable Services' is though, as cited on the line indicating the reason for issuing the award.

 

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Username: Mickey
Date: 2020-04-18 17:41:09
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Gold medal