Library, Union League, Philad[elphi]a [graphic]

Philadelphia: ca. 1870.

Yellow mount with square corners.

Title from pencil inscription on mount.

View of room with floor to ceiling bookcases. Man seated in chair at round table. Library was located on second floor on east end of building. Union League was established to raise funds and recruits for the Union cause. Building constructed 1864-1865 based on designs by Philadelphia architect John Fraser.

Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.

Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of views relating to Philadelphia.

Union League of Philadelphia -- Buildings.

Private libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia lctgm.

Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 140.

Stereographs -- 1860-1870. gmgpc

Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. gmgpc

Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.

Fraser, John, 1825-1906, architect.

Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1870.

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