The combined Sanitary Fair of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware opens in Philadelphia

The Grand Central Sanitary Fair, combined to represent the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, was opened officially in a ceremony at its 540 foot long temporary main structure built across Logan Square highlighting the more than a mile of building front in the city.  The Fair ran till June 27, 1864 and collected more than one and a half million dollars to support the work of the Sanitary Commission.  (By John Osborne)   
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Thomas Scharf and Thompson Wescott, History of Philadelphia 1609-1884, in three volumes (Philadelphia, PA: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), I:815-816.
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