Sanitary Fair Sale. Catalogue of Miscellaneous Goods Remaining From the Great Sanitary Fair, To be Sold at Public Sale, On Tuesday, December 6, 1864…by Thomas Birch & Son, Auctioneers

by Thomas Birch, Son

$650 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Philadelphia , 6 December 1864. Broadside, 17” x 10.25”. A most interesting broadside advertising the sale at auction of goods unsold at one of Philadelphia’s sanitary fairs, listing a wide variety of items, including a smattering of interesting Civil War-related objects. Among the 260 items listed here located either on the store’s second or third floor are sewing machines, 200 Stroud’s Slave Laws,

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