<img width="640" height="793" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/39088019859313_FromStageResized.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="This image features a view from the Brooklyn Academy of Music stage looking out at the theater’s great hall and balconies festooned with red, white, and blue streamers, bunting, and American flags. People in 19th attire meander along shopping for household wares and other goods. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object." style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/39088019859313_FromStageResized.jpg 1008w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/39088019859313_FromStageResized-242x300.jpg 242w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/39088019859313_FromStageResized-170x211.jpg 170w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="37689" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2020/03/30/fair-ladies/39088019859313_fromstageresized/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/39088019859313_FromStageResized.jpg" data-orig-size="1008,1249" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1359634720","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="39088019859313_FromStageResized" data-image-description="<p>Plate 3. View of the Academy of Music, as seen from the stage 39088019859313</p>" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/39088019859313_FromStageResized-242x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/39088019859313_FromStageResized.jpg" />Throughout March, Object of the Week celebrates Women’s History Month. Each Monday a new post highlights women designers in the collection. Author: Adrienne Meyer This lithograph is one of four in the Cooper Hewitt Design Library depicting scenes from the Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864. These images capture some of the spectacle...
