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Private dining room, Union League, Philad[elphi]a [graphic]
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Title
Private dining room, Union League, Philad[elphi]a [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 of round table covered by cloth and surrounded by upholstered armchairs. Table is set with glass and ceramic wares. Table is near three large windows with opened shutters. Union League established to raise funds and recruits for the Union cause. Building constructed 1864-1865 based on designs by Philadelphia architect John Fraser.
Notes
Title from pencil inscription on mount.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of views relating to Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Union League of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Dining rooms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dining tables -- 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.1i]
Accession number
(8)1322.F.1i
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