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Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon working committee. [graphic].
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Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon working committee. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: Published by R. Newell, 724 Arch Street
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1863
Date
[ca. 1863]
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen mounted on paper; 9 x 16 cm. (3.25 x 6.25 in.)
Description
Shows a large group of men posed within a dining hall of the refreshment saloon near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. View includes a boy, garland adornments, and a long table set for a dining service. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the volunteer relief agency in operation between 1861-1865 provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen.
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American views
Notes
Unmounted stereograph.
Title from accompanying publisher's label.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work.
Washington Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of Swanson Avenue.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Associations [P.2004.23]
Accession number
P.2004.23
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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