Sanitary Fair of the Brooklyn Art Association in the Academy of Music

Lithograph of interior 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 theater as seen from the stage; spectators or participants on state in foreground; bunting hanging from ceiling. Caption on verso on copy 4: "Brooklyn's Sanitary Fair in 1864 was held in the Academy of Music to raise funds for Civil War relief. As this old print shows, it was a gala event. The name derived from the War Fund Committee's sanitary commission, in charge of distributing hospital supplies, clothing and food to soldiers at the front and their families at home."