Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, 1864

This hand-colored lithograph depicts the Academy of Music and Brooklyn Sanitary Fair building complex during the Civil War era. The composition shows a bustling courtyard scene with period architecture—red brick structures with classical details, connected by a white bridge structure. Bare trees and figures in dark Victorian dress populate the foreground, while small crowds gather throughout the grounds. Published by A. Brown and Company, the print documents a significant public institution and charitable event during wartime, offering historical record of Brooklyn's architectural and social landscape in the 1860s.