About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0457
  • Title[Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1863]
  • SummaryLithograph of interior of former Brooklyn Academy of Music building on Montague Street (destroyed by fire in 1903); lithograph shows formally dressed people milling about, possibly as spectators at an art exhibition rather than the sanitary fair for Civil War relief held there the following year; paintings on walls, and chandeliers hanging from decorative struts on ceiling.
  • Date[1863?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printslithographsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: March 3, 1863.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Academy of Music
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn 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)