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Title: Horticultural Hall! Monday and Tuesday evenings, Jan. 30th and 31st Funston's great art wonder of the age. Change of views each evening The new stereocopian which has produced an unparalleled sensation in San Francisco, Stockton, Sacramento, Marysville & Nevada Territory The stereocopian is a new and elaborate apparatus, combining the highest triumphs of optical and chemical science, by which photographic views from nature! are displayed on canvas in vast dimensions with a powerful Drummond light! and illustrating, with astonishing brilliancy, incidents in the present Rebellion! ... Beautiful statuary! ... landscape scenery ... Professor Hullfish will describe each view as it is presented. Admission, 25 cts. Children, 15 cts. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Commence at 8 o'clock. Any person wishing a repetition of any view previously exhibited, will be gratified by leaving word at the office during the day
Description: Jan. 30 fell on a Monday in 1865., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 42.5 x 16.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Funston, Thomas G., b. 1825 or 6
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1865 Funston (27)5761.F.58a (McAllister)

Title: Stereopticon Operator E.B. Merchants Lecturer E.E. Hulfish, Esq. Manager John Toy This beautiful intellectual entertainment, which surpasses anything hitherto presented to the citizens of West Chester, will be given at Horticultural Hall, on Friday, Saturday and Monday evenings, January 9th, 10th and 12th, 1863. Afternoon entertainment on Saturday, 10th inst., commencing at 3 o'clock, for the accommodation of families and schools. The stereopticon is a new and powerful apparatus--which, with the aid of the strongest artificial light that science has yet created, produces gigantic stereoscopic pictures! covering over 400 square feet of illuminated canvas ... At each entertainment, will be presented a choice selection, comprising the grandest and most attractive views of American and European scenery, ... The whole comprising the most noted objects of interest, as seen by travelers in a voyage around the world Each evening will be presented a number of interesting local views, choice specimens of monumental sculpture, &c., and statues and colossal portraits of eminent American heroes and statesmen! ... Admission, 25 cts. Children, 13 cts. Doors open at 7, to commence at 7 1/2. Doors open in the afternoon at 2, to commence at 3 o'clock
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Toy, John
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Toy (25)5761.F.32b (McAllister)

Title: Horticultural Hall, West Chester for five days only Commencing Tuesday evening, March 10th, and every evening during the week. Tickets, 15 cents. Packages of 10, one dollar. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Lecture to commence quarter-before 8. Grand exhibition on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for schools and families, when children will be admitted for the low price of six cents. Grand historic mirror of the American war! The most exciting topic of the times! The only work of the kind in existence, sketched by eye-witnesses, and painted by the most eminent artists, under the supervision of the well-known Pearson Brothers, of New York. ... Mr. Robert Pearson, the principal artist, has made arrangements to add to this popular work, from week to week, all the principal events that may transpire in the prosecution of the war, having distinguished artists engaged to forward to him sketches and reports prepared on the spot. ... The unseemly daubs which are generally produced for public inspection, under the name of panoramas, have, in a great measure, shaken the confidence of the people; ... It is necessary, therefore, to inform all classes that this panorama has met with the most unbounded success, having been exhibited within the past few months, in Philadelphia, to not less than 75,000 spectators
Description: March 10 fell on a Tuesday in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *PB 1863 Grand (27)5761.F.64 (McAllister)

Title: Horticultural Hall. By special request! 3 nights longer! Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 9, 10 & 11, prices reduced! Admission, 20 cents or 8 tickets for $1.00. Williams South Sea whaling voyage. ... Remember--tickets are only 20 cents Eight tickets, one dollar Remember Wednesday afternoon. Evening--doors open at 7--commence at 7 3/4. Aftern&on [sic]--doors open at 2--commence at 3
Description: Edward C. Williams's Life in the South Seas was first published in 1860, and reprinted in 1862., Feb. 9 fell on a Monday in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Williams, E. C., Capt
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Williams (27)5761.F.58b (McAllister)

Title: Horticultural Hall. For six nights only commencing Monday, February 2d, 1863, also, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 7th, for the special benefit of families and schools Capt. Williams' great nautical entertainment! Scenes in the life of an American whaleman! from 720 Broadway, N.Y., where for 250 successive nights it was received with shouts of laughter and wild excitement! ... Admission, 25 cts. Children, 15 cts. On Saturday afternoon, packages of six tickets, ... Evening's entertainments commence at half-past 7 o'clock, precisely
Description: Edward C. Williams's Life in the South Seas was first published in 1860, and reprinted in 1862., Library Company copy torn at corners, affecting some text; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Williams, E. C., Capt
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *PB 1863 Williams (25)5761.F.98a (McAllister)

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