Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, October 23...

Floor plan showing the layout of departments at the exhibition organized to raise funds for the home for destitute and wounded Civil War veterans. Display sponsors include the Fire Department, First Presbyterian Church, "Women's Mission" and the Penn Relief Association as well as local neighbourhoods, towns, and counties including West Philadelphia, Germantown, Montgomery County, Chester County, Bethlehem, and Jenkintown. Displays include fancy goods, china, photographs & albums, books, canned fruit and confectionery, hardware, sewing machines, dolls, silhouettes, and silver. Exhibition also provided a table for the fair periodical "The Knapsack," a fruit stand, donation table, refreshment saloon, smoking saloon, and ...