Creator |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Contributor |
Bannan, Benjamin, 1807-1875, correspondent. |
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Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912. correspondent., |
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Brunot, Felix R. (Felix Reville), 1820-1898, correspondent. |
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Bond, L. Montgomery (Levi Montgomery), d. 1882 correspondent., |
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Claghorn, John W., 1789-1869, correspondent. |
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Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.). Committee on Labor, Incomes and Revenues, |
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United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Branch |
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McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, former owner. |
Title |
Sanitary Fairs Collection, 1749-1867 (bulk 1864). |
Physical Description |
4 boxes 2.71 linear ft. |
Description |
The Sanitary Fairs Collection consists largely of ephemera and manuscripts documenting the efforts made by citizens to raise
awareness and funds for the United States Sanitary Commission. Most of the material is from the Great Central Fair held in
Philadelphia in June 1864, and includes circulars letters, forms, handbills, correspondence, and miscellaneous printed material
generated by the various committees set up to collect objects and financial donations for the fair, and to arrange and staff
the fair's sales booths and exhibits. Two additional folders of material for the Relics, Curiosities, and Autographs committee
have examples of the autographs (dating 1749-1851) that were sold at their booth and remain in their special printed enclosures
from the fair. The collection holds the correspondence files of one particular office, the Committee for Labor, Incomes and
Revenues, whose chair and treasurer were, respectively, Philadelphia merchants L. Montgomery Bond and John W. Claghorn. The
collection also contains limited ephemera from fairs in Albany, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Elmira,
Indianapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Muscatine, Iowa.
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Notes |
The McAllister Collection's Ribbons and Textiles Collection (McA 100090.F) holds a box of ribbons and badges from the Great
Central Fair. The Library Company's Anne Hampton Brewster Papers has an Abraham Lincoln manuscript, with attendant donor correspondence
and certificate, which Brewster acquired at the Great Central Fair's New Jersey Department, Arms and Trophies Table. The Library
Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania each have a full run of the Great Sanitary Fair's newspaper, Our daily
fare, which was published from Wednesday, June 8, through Tuesday, June 21, 1864.
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Biographical / historical note |
John A. McAllister was an antiquarian collector living in Philadelphia. |
Subject |
Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Maryland State Fair, for the Benefit of the U.S. Sanitary and Christian Commissions (1864 : Baltimore, Md.) |
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New England Sanitary Commission Fair (1863 : Boston, Mass.) |
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Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission (1864) |
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Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair (1864 : Saint Louis, Mo.) |
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Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.) |
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Northwestern Sanitary Fair (1865 : Chicago, Ill.) |
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Great Western Sanitary Fair (1863 : Cincinnati, Ohio) |
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Army Relief Bazaar (1864 : Albany, N.Y.) |
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Sanitary Fair (1864 : Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
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Sanitary fairs -- United States. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work. |
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Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791 -- Autographs. |
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Hopkinson, Thomas, 1709-1751 -- Autographs. |
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Wood, William B. (William Burke), 1779-1861 -- Autographs. |
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Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 -- Autographs. |
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Pierpont, John, 1785-1866 -- Autographs. |
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Philanthropy. |
Genre |
Letters. |
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Broadsides. |
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Ephemera. |
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Clippings. |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, former owner. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts MSS| McA 5781.F |
Accession number |
5781.F (McAllister) |