Details
Creator P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer.
Title United States soldiers at Camp "William Penn" Philadelphia, PA. [graphic] : "Rally round the flag, boys! Rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom" / P.S. Duval & Son. Lith. Cor. 5th & Minor St. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, 1210 Chestnut Street
Date [1863]
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored chromolithograph ; sheet 33 x 40 cm (12.5 x 15.5 in.)
Description Recruitment print depicting members of an African American regiment posed with their white commander at Camp William Penn, Cheltenham Township. The troop members, including the drummer boy, attired in military uniforms, are gathered on an open green near a tent. One soldier holds the flagpole with the American flag. Begun in 1863 with the support of the Union League, eleven regiments were formed at Camp William Penn, the first Pennsylvania camp for volunteer African American regiments. William Penn was the largest Civil War camp for the training of officers to lead African American troops.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
LCP exhibition catalog: Negro history,
Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: portrait of an American city. (Philadelphia: Camino Books, 1990), p. 217.
Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American soldiers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Flags -- American.
Military training camps -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Recruitment & enlistment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American soldiers -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subject Camp William Penn (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
Genre Chromolithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Printer Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia, Pa.), publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - Penn [P.9177.17]
Accession number P.9177.17