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Sanitary Fairs

Four sources that demonstrate the scope and scale of the Sanitary Fairs organized by Union women.

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Sanitary Fairs
Colored 1865 lithograph depicting the long rectangular main building of the Great Northwestern Sanitary Fair. Its gothic arch front entrance on a busy Chicago street is surrounded by flagged towers as well as horses, carriages, and pedestrians.
Lithograph of the main building of the Great North Western Sanitary Fair

Great North Western Sanitary Fair main building, 1865. Chicago History Museum, Chicago History Museum, Gift of Geo. H. Laflin, Esq, ICHi-63123.

Photographic print, circa 1863, depicting women and men at a horse-shoe decorated booth at the Northwestern Sanitary Fair. The name “Burden” is displayed overhead.
Burden’s Booth

Burden’s Booth, second Northwestern Sanitary Fair, undated. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-15123.

A wood and glass case containing a diorama of Black and white children, (depicted through handmade dolls), playing together in a tree-lined setting.
Diorama from the Northwest Sanitary Fair

Diorama from the Northwest Sanitary Fair, 1863 or 1864. Chicago History Museum, Gift of Marie S. Gale, given in memory of Daniel Warren Gale, II,1953.358.

A hand sewn potholder depicting two dancing Black figures, a man and woman, on a white background surrounded by the red stitched words “Any holder but A Slaveholder.”