About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0452
  • TitleBrooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864
  • SummaryLithograph of former Brooklyn Academy of Music building on Montague Street (destroyed by fire in 1903), where the Women's Relief Association held a Sanitary Fair in 1864 to benefit the Union war effort; lithograph shows temporary bridge or covered walkway built over Montague street; woman and child next to bare tree in right foreground.
  • Date[1864?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printslithographsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on recto.
  • 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)