About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0454
  • TitleSanitary Ball, 1864
  • SummaryLithograph of stage 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 spectators seated in foreground looking towards bow-shaped stage; bunting hanging from ceiling. Caption on verso on copy 1: "Sanitary Ball, 1864: An interior view of the Academy of Music as seen from the dress circle. On the great stage is a pageant of medical care on the battlefields of the Civil War, part of the spectacle staged by the women of Brooklyn to raise money for medical care for the men who fought to save the Union."
  • Date[1864?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printslithographsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso of copy 1. Dates on versos: copy 1: June 12 1946 (stamped); copy 2: Oct. 8/35 (inscribed); copies 3 and 5: March 3, 1863 (inscribed). Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • 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)