Photo Portrait of Attendees and Exhibits at the National Fair in the Old Patent Office Building in Washington DC (1864)

 

Portrait of attendees and exhibits at the National Fair in the Old Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C., 1864. This seems to have been a smaller and much less well known version of a sanitary fair held in various Northern and Midwestern cities during the American Civil War to raise funds to support Union troops. According to the American Presidency Project, President Abraham Lincoln attended this fair and gave a short speech at it on March 16, 1864. Originally published as a stereoview by Bell & Bro. This is the only photograph of the event I have come across.

Source: National Portrait Gallery.

The American Presidency Project link.

Stereoview of Exhibits in the Eastern Transept of of a Building at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, England (1862)

Stereoview of exhibits in the eastern transept of of a building at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, England, 1862. By William England.

Source: Library of Congress.

Stereoview of the 26th National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and Attractions Including a Replica of the USS Kearsarge in Front of the Washington Monument in Washington DC (1892)

View of the 26th National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and attractions including a replica of the USS Kearsarge in front of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., 1892. By John Fillis Jarvis.

Source: Library of Congress.

Stereoview of Exhibits in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, DC (1867)

Stereoview of exhibits in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., c. 1867. By F. H. Bell.

Source: Library of Congress.

Two Views of Exhibits in the Interior of Linnaean Hall at the Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1870′s/1880′s)

Two views of exhibits in the interior of Linnaean Hall at the Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, c. 1870′s/1880′s. By William H. Tipton. From The Pennsylvania College Book 1832-1882 published in 1882.

Portrait of Visitors Posing in Front of Exhibits at the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, Missouri (1864)

Portrait of visitors posing in front of exhibits at the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, 1864.

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