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Title: The Hippotheatron and New York Cirque, opposite the Academy of Music, 14th Street a liberal per centage of the gross daily receipts is given to the funds of the fair : grand equestrian, gymnastic and acrobatic performances
Description: The Hippotheatron contributed to the Metropolitan Fair. Cf. A record of the Metropolitan Fair: in aid of the United States Sanitary Commission held at New York in April, 1864. New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1867., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Hippotheatron (New York, N.Y.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Hippo 5781.F.89

Title: The Christian friends of our brave soldiers, of all denominations, are invited to attend a meeting! to be held in the vestry rooms of the Moravian Church, Sunday, 13th inst. at 4 1/2 o'clock P.M. to take into consideration measures for organizing an Army Committee, auxiliary to the United States Christian Commission. Bethlehem, March 10, 1864
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Christian (2)5786.F.21b (McAllister)

Title: What the employees of the Philadelphia Navy Yard have done for the Great Central Fair (held in Philadelphia, June, 1864.)
Description: Lists, by department, all workers who contributed to the campaign, for a total of $3,391.60., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.). Committee on Labor, Incomes and Revenues, Committee on Labor, Incomes and Revenues
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Great (2)5781.F.11 (McAllister)

Title: Woman and the war Woman has acted her part nobly in this war. She has toiled and sacrificed, suffered and died to relieve the wants and sufferings of our needy, sick and wounded soldiers. ... A work is now in press, to be published in New York, by N.C. Miller, and in this city by E.G. Storke, of the Auburn Publishing Co., bearing the following title: The heroines of the Civil War: comprising biographical sketches of the leading actors in soldiers' aid societies, in the sanitary and Christian commissions and in hospitals, camps, etc., etc., with notices of their patiotic devotion to our suffering soldiers. A record of true womanly heroism
Description: The publication in the advertisement has not been traced., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Woman (2)5786.F.63b (McAllister)

Title: Metropolitan Fair, April, 1864 The Executive Committee would call the attention of the public to the photographic studio, Station 77 (3d story, over the Furniture Department), under the management of Messrs. Gurney & Son, who are prepared to make cartes de visite and vignettes of all favoring them with a sitting, at the liberal price of $5.00 per dozen, in aid of the Sanitary Commission
Description: Printed on card stock; printed area, including ruled border, measures 24.5 x 31.1 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.). Executive Committee, Executive Committee
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Metro (2)5781.F.130a (McAllister)

Title: National Sailors' Fair An effort is about to be made to establish a home, free to seamen and marines disabled in our naval service. It is proposed to acquire the means of founding such an institution through the instrumentality of a great National Sailors' Fair, to be held in Boston, Mass., in the early part of November next
Description: Caption title, with first lines of text., The fair was held Nov. 9-19, 1864., Signed on p. [2]: William Perkins, Albert Fearing, Gardiner Howland Shaw, committee on finance., Last page blank., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Sailors' Fair (1864 : Boston, Mass.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Nat Sailor (1)5781.F.142b (McAllister)

Title: United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Agency. No. 27 South Sixth Street Aid societies in the country, sending boxes or packages should have them legibly directed to Robert M. Lewis, U.S. Sanitary Commission, No. 27 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, and send them by railroad or otherwise. The freight will be settled for by the Philadelphia Agency. Any of the publications of the commission may be had, or further information obtained, by addressing the superintendent, at the depository. Supplies wanted for the hospitals
Description: Letter on p. [3]-[4], signed and dated at end: C.J. Stillé, W.H. Ashhurst, Thos. Kimber, Jr., Hugh Davids, Geo. M. Conarroe, committee on the depository. Philadelphia, February, 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia Branch
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Uni Sta Sanitary (2)5781.F.57c (McAllister)

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