ABSTRACT
On 3 March 1871, the United States' President, Ulysses S. Grant approved and signed an Act of Congress "to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of American Independence by holding an international exhibition of arts, manufacturers, and products of the soil and mine, in the city of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania in the year 1876". President Grant officially announced the Exhibition to other nations on 5 July 1873. Official invitations were conveyed to foreign ministers in June 1874. It took one more year for the official participation of Egypt to be announced. Mohammed Tawfik Pacha was to be President of the Egyptian Commission for the Centennial of the United States. Seventeen years later, at the 1893 Chicago Exhibition, a huge 'Street in Cairo' was allocated to Egypt in the Midway Plaisance. The Midway was formerly a wooden drive connecting Jackson Park with Washington Park, catering mainly for recreation and entertainment.
