Sanford's new Opera House Race Street, above Second. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 13th & 14th, 1865 : Funston's great art wonder of the age. Change of views each evening! The new stereoscopian! which has produced an unparalleled sensation in San Francisco, Stockton, Sacramento, Marysville and Nevada Territory! The stereoscopian is a new and elaborate apparatus, combining the highest triumphs of optical and chemical science, by which photographic views from nature are displayed on canvass in vast dimensions with a powerful Drummond light and illustrating, with astonishing brilliancy, incidents in the present Rebellion ... Beautiful statuary! ... landscape scenery, ... Professor Hullfish will describe each view as it is presented. Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents Reserved seats, 50 cents. Doors open at quarter before 7 o'clock. Commence at quarter before 8 Any person wishing a repetition of any view previously exhibited, will be gratified by leaving word at the office during the day. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	Funston, Thomas G., b. 1825 or 6.
Contributor	Sanford's Opera House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
	Hulfish, E. E.
	Sanford, Samuel S., 1821-1905.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.
Title	Sanford's new Opera House Race Street, above Second. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 13th & 14th, 1865 : Funston's great art wonder of the age. Change of views each evening! The new stereoscopian! which has produced an unparalleled sensation in San Francisco, Stockton, Sacramento, Marysville and Nevada Territory! The stereoscopian is a new and elaborate apparatus, combining the highest triumphs of optical and chemical science, by which photographic views from nature are displayed on canvass in vast dimensions with a powerful Drummond light and illustrating, with astonishing brilliancy, incidents in the present Rebellion ... Beautiful statuary! ... landscape scenery, ... Professor Hullfish will describe each view as it is presented. Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents Reserved seats, 50 cents. Doors open at quarter before 7 o'clock. Commence at quarter before 8 Any person wishing a repetition of any view previously exhibited, will be gratified by leaving word at the office during the day.
Title	Funston's great art wonder of the age
Publisher	[Philadelphia, Pa.] : U.S. Steam Print, Ledger Building
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date	[1865]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 49 x 20 cm.
Notes	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Entertainment events -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Lantern slides -- Exhibitions.
	Lectures and lecturing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Stereoscopic views -- Exhibitions.
Geographic subject	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Playbills.
Printer	United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.
Provenance	McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Books & Other Texts \| Rare \| PB 1865 Funston (26)5761.F.97a (McAllister)
Accession number	(26) 5761.F.97a (McAllister)