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Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, 1864. View of the academy of music, as seen from the stage

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Title: Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, 1864. View of the academy of music, as seen from the stage
Creator: A. Brown & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1864
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of the interior of the Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, as staged for the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair exhibition, which likely raised funds to support the United States Sanitary Commission's efforts to aid soldiers and the war effort; fashionably dressed men and women browse art and sculpture displayed on long tables; seats in the balconies are filled with people; bunting with stars and stripes and red, white, and blue steamers decorate the walls and the high ceiling.
"Lith. of A. Brown & Co. 47 Nassau St. N.Y."--text, bottom left margin. "for Henry Mc. Closkey's Manual of 1864."--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 48.58 x 39.69 cm (19 1/8 x 15 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FAIR_001702
407780
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1952
Language: English
Subject: Brooklyn Academy of Music--Pictorial works
Fairs--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Fairs & Expositions
Large Size
General Fairs and Expositions
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: priJLC_FAIR_003040

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