History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair : February 22, 1864 / prepared and published by authority of the executive committee.

  • Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission (1864)
Date:
1864
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Credit: History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair : February 22, 1864 / prepared and published by authority of the executive committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    line, and a soldierly appearance every way creditable to them. The young Polytechnic Cadets, too, won high honors. ALL READY. At a few minutes before seven o'clock, P. M., the doors of the several departments of the Fair were thrown open. We shall now proceed to take up each department in order, and give a sketch of their arrangements, and the prominent incidents which occurred in them during the Fair, noting, as space will permit, the principal features of interest in each. THE GREAT CENTRAL BAZAAR. The great central Bazaar, for the sale of articles for the Fair, was held in the Academy of Music, the entire building, with the exception of the Assembly Room —which was oc- cupied as an Art Gallery—being used for the purpose. The ground floor of the Academy was boarded over, level with the stage, making a magnificent hall, with an area of 10,570 square feet. The second floor and lobbies, added an area of 9,730, making the total area devoted to the sale of goods in the Academy of Music, 20,300 square feet. THE DECORATIONS. The decorations of the Academy were very beautiful, and their patriotic nature was in fine keeping with the character of the great enterprise. From the centre of the Auditorium ceiling was suspended a mass of brilliantly colored bunting, giving the graceful effect of a swinging column. From the bottom of this was suspended, by invisible wires, an American eagle, which seemed to hover in mid-air over the majestic scene below. From the apex of the column of drapery sprung radiating bands of red, white, and blue bunting, which, stretch- ing in graceful curves until they touched the pillars of the am- phitheatre, were thence twined, and drooped, and festooned around the whole circle of the building. Above the arch of the stage, in letters formed of tiny jets of gas, blazed the in- scription, In Union is Strength.