Thirty states exhibited, more than 500,000 people attended, and $100,000 was taken in receipts.  The Exposition Poster portrays the Saengerfest hall expanded to five buildings, covering seven acres on both sides of a footbridge over the Miami Canal.

Despite a local outbreak of cholera and a national "financial revulsion," the exhibition drew more than 500,000 visitors and exhibits from every sector of the country.  The Exposition poster calls attention to the Power Hall built to display an acre of "machinery in motion," and run by "four first-class driving engines of 500 horse power."

Exhibiting space grew to eight acres, and elaborate “Rules and Regulations” divided its 16 departments into 84 classes of articles entered for exhibit only, or in competition for   “premiums.” The Exposition Poster advertises financial support from a guarantee fund and declares that the exhibit “is in no way a private enterprise.”

The Exposition Poster adds four interior images of exhibit halls to the traditional image of the Saengerfest exterior. At the top are depictions of the medals awarded as premiums. At the bottom are listed the names of the Board of Commissioners

The Exposition Poster replaces the Saengerfest exterior with the façade of Music Hall. This “grand central building” was constructed in a single year to house both the May Festival choruses and the Industrial Expositions. Three interior hall images depict a variety of industrial, artistic, and botanical exhibits, while award medals decorate the names of the Board of Commissioners listed at the bottom.

 In the  first Exposition Poster to proclaim “The National Exhibition of Art and Industry,” Music Hall fills the bottom half, below a new image of the competition. An enthroned queen, seated between an ironworker and an artist, holds the laurel wreath of victory and the scales of justice. At her feet are the award medals, and surrounding her are various illustrations of exhibit articles.

The Exposition Poster again proclaims a national exhibit and repeats the depiction of award medals, artistic products, and the steam engine. The image of Music Hall is reduced in size and centered beneath a maiden at work amid fern and flowers.

The Exposition Poster reproduces the 1880 design, changing only the dates and colors.

 In the foreground of the Exposition Poster,, an enthroned queen reaches out to the maiden who is presenting Ohio’s entry. The maiden is surrounded by her competitors from Massachusetts, Kentucky, Indiana, and Georgia, who are followed by a crowd of others. Music Hall’s façade forms the backdrop for their triumphant procession.

The Exposition Poster’s images are displayed against an intricate tapestry. On one side, a maiden holds an artist’s palette, and on the other side a workman holds a model of a steam engine. Between them, seen through a window, is the Music Hall façade. Award medals decorate the window drape at their feet.

The Exposition Poster portrays a youthful page unfurling a banner almost his size. An artist’s palette and image of Music Hall adorn the banner’s announcement of the exhibit.

The Exposition Poster depicts an American patriot announcing the centennial of the Ohio Valley and Central States. Behind the patriot are early settlers powering a river barge. The patriot holds in his right hand the deed of two million acres of Central States land to John Cleves Symmes.