Reading room, Union League, Philad[elphi]a [graphic]

Philadelphia: ca. 1870.

Distributor's stamp on verso: William Y. McAllister Phila.

Title from manuscript note on verso.

Yellow mount with square corners.

Interior view showing upholstered chairs and tables in center of carpeted room with high ceilings. Newspaper racks line walls and reading material is spread over tables. Union League was established to raise funds and recruits for the Union cause. Building constructed 1864-1865 based on designs by Philadelphia archiect John Fraser.

Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.

Union League of Philadelphia -- Buildings.

Reading rooms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. lctgm

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

Stereographs -- 1860-1870. gmgpc

Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. gmgpc

McAllister, William Y., distributor.

Fraser, John, 1825-1906, architect.

Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1870.

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