Details
Title Billiard salon, Union League, Philada. [graphic]
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1870
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing room with five billiard tables and young man standing with cue stick. Row of chairs stands against one wall. Racks holding cue sticks hang along one wall. Union League was established to raise funds for the Union cause. Building constructed 1864-1865 based on designs by Philadelphia architect John Fraser.
Notes Yellow mount with square corners.
Title from pencil inscription on mount.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of views relating to Philadelphia.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 82.
Arcadia caption text: The two main floors of the Union League offered its male members a library, reading room, parlors, and dining rooms in which to socialize, conduct business, or discuss politics over dinner, drinks, or a good cigar. In the basement, members like this young man, photographed in the late 1860s, could enjoy a game of billiards under the watchful eye of General Ulysses S. Grant's portrait.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Union League of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Billiard rooms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 140.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Fraser, John, 1825-1906, architect.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Associations [(8)1322.F.1e-3]
Accession number (8)1322.F.1e-3