Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, lithographer.
Contributor Printer: Sinclair, Thomas, ca. 1805-1881, publisher.
Provenance:: Fales, Samuel Bradford, 1808-1880.
Provenance:: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Title Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital. [graphic] / F.J. Queen, del. & lith.
Publisher Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's lith.,
Date [ca. 1862]
Extent 2 prints: chromolithograph; 16 x 20 cm.(6 x 8 in.)
Description Certificate containing an exterior view of the buildings of the Civil War volunteer relief agency and an interior scene with an injured soldier. View shows soldiers arriving and departing from the saloon and hospital near the waterfront. Scene shows a soldier seated on his bed receiving boxes of lint from a girl and boy who are attired in red, white, and blue. A picnic-like display of fruit, jars of jams, and a basket of bottles lays on the floor. Also includes the names of the committee members.
Notes P.2002.50.4 issued October 4, 1862 for one box of lint. Signed by F. B. Wade, Secretary.
Inscribed on recto of 5778.F.24c: Over 10,000 of these issued to children & others for lint & sanitary stores, bandages, etc. Sam B. Fales.
Inscribed on verso of 5778.F.24c: John A. McAllister, Esq. from S.B. Fales.
Created postfreeze.
One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper Shop and Union Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals.
Genre Certificates Color 1860-1870.
Chromolithographs 1860-1870.
Subject Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) Buildings.
Spatial coverage United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--War work.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Children.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civil relief.
Is part of Civil War Volunteer Refreshment Saloons
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Philadelphia certificates - Hospitals - Union [5778.F.24c: P.2002.50.4]
Accession number 5778.F.24c
P.2002.50.4