Details
Creator Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808 lithographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 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
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [1865]
Physical Description 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]
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 607
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Subject Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Exhibitions.
Soldiers and Sailors Home Fair (1865 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Floor plans -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Theatres & halls - A (2)5786.F.106a]
Accession number (2)5786.F.106a