Image / Brooklyn sanitary fair, 1864. Knickerbocker Hall

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Title: Brooklyn sanitary fair, 1864. Knickerbocker Hall
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 interior of the Knickerbocker Hall 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 men and women browse art and sculpture displayed on long tables; long garlands of greenery and American flags 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 42.55 x 46.36 cm (16 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FAIR_004523
494109
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5450
Language: English
Subject: Fairs--Pictorial works
Flags--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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