Image / Brooklyn sanitary fair, 1864. New England kitchen

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Title: Brooklyn sanitary fair, 1864. New England kitchen
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
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Description: Image of the New England kitchen exhibit at 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 women partake of food and drink served at long tables in front of a large, open fire brick oven; women working at a spinning wheel at left.
"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 41.91 x 48.26 cm (16 1/2 x 19 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FAIR_004522
494108
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5448
Language: English
Subject: Fairs--Pictorial works
Kitchens--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Fairs & Expositions
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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