Smoking room, Union League, Philadelphia [graphic]

Philadelphia, ca. 1870.

Title from manuscript note on mount.

Yellow mount with square corners.

Interior view of room with upholstered armchairs around central table and along walls. Numerous spittoons visible on carpeted floor. Union League established to raise funds and troops for the Union cause. Building constructed 1864-1865 based on designs by Philadelphia architect John Fraser.

Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of views relating to Philadelphia.

Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.

Union League of Philadelphia -- Buildings.

Smoking rooms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. lctgm

Spittoons 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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