Photo of a Group of Native Americans Probably Posing as Part of an Exhibit at the Great Central Fair, a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1864)

Photo of a group of Native Americans probably posing as part of an exhibit at the Great Central Fair, a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in June 1864. Taken by photographer James Cremer and originally published as a stereoview.

Source: New York Public Library.

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.

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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Displays and Attendees at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1864)

Displays and attendees of the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1864. Animated stereoview.

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African American Wait Staff Posing in a Banquet Hall at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia (1864)

African American men, probably wait staff, posing in a banquet hall at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, June 1864. Animated stereoview.

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