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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

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