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Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home. Academy of Music, Philadelphia. October 23 to November 4, 1865. [graphic] / F. Bourquin, Chesnut St. 602.
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Creator
Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808 lithographer.
Contributor
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Title
Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home. Academy of Music, Philadelphia. October 23 to November 4, 1865. [graphic] / F. Bourquin, Chesnut St. 602.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Published at "Knapsack" Table,
Date
[1865]
Extent
1 print: lithograph; 31 x 23 cm.(12.25 x 8.75 in.)
Description
Floor plan showing the layout of departments at the exhibition organized to raise funds for the home for destitute and wounded Civil War veterans. Display sponsors include the Fire Department, First Presbyterian Church, "Women's Mission" and the Penn Relief Association as well as local neighborhoods, towns, and counties including West Philadelphia, Germantown, Montgomery County, Chester County, Bethlehem, and Jenkintown. Displays include fancy goods, china, photographs & albums, books, canned fruit and confectionery, hardware, sewing machines, dolls, silhouettes, and silver. Exhibition also provided a table for the fair periodical "The Knapsack," a fruit stand, donation table, refreshment saloon, smoking saloon, and ladies dressing room.
Notes
Published in The Knapsack, October 24, 1865. [*Per K 9.7 5776.F.25]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Genre
Lithographs 1860-1870.
Floor plans 1860-1870.
Subject
Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) Exhibitions.
Exhibitions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.
Is part of
Civil War Miscellany
Has format
TMP.objres.4165.jpg
Call number
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *BW - Theatres & halls - A (2)5786.F.106a]
Accession number
(2)5786.F.106a
In Collections
Civil War Miscellany
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