| Title: | Sanitary Ball, 1864 |
| Description: | Lithograph 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?] |
| Location: | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals. [2] Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3] Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [4] |
| More Details: |
Title 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. |
| Collection: | Holidays [5]
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| Subject: |
Brooklyn Academy of Music. [6] |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Lithographs. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library |
| ID: | HOLI 0454 |