About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0453
  • TitleThe New England Kitchen of the Bklyn Sanitary Fair
  • SummaryLithograph of room in former Brooklyn Academy of Music building on Montague Street (destroyed by fire in 1903) or in adjacent building, where the Women's Relief Association held a sanitary fair in 1864 to benefit the Union war effort; lithograph shows women tending to large fireplace in center; large tables laid with provisions before fireplace; spinning wheel at left of fireplace.
  • Date[1864?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printslithographsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso of copy 2. Dates on versos: copy 1: Nov. 17, 1946 (stamped); copy 2: Jan. 24, 1911 (stamped); copy 3: March 3, 1863 (inscribed).
  • SubjectBrooklyn Academy of Music ; Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission (1864)
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Celebrations: Sanitary Fair (Renderings)