Details
Contributor P. S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title Great Central Fair for the Sanitary Commission [certificate] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, lith
Date [1864]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 26 x 23 cm.(10.25 x 8.75 in.)
Description Certificate of appreciation for work with the "Committee on the Restaurant of the Great Central Fair" containing a border of scenes and vignettes depicting the presence of the Sanitary Commission at the battlefront. Shows commission supply wagons arriving and depositing crates of goods at a campsite; soldiers assisting other soldiers in walking, receiving refreshments, and being transported by a gurney; and an unloaded crate of bottles of beverages, oranges, tins, and bandages. Also contains the seal of "The Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission." Seal depicts the female figure of Charity handing a glass to a soldier attending a wounded soldier.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued to Rebecca W. English on June 25, 1864. Signed by Jno. Welsh, Chairman of Executive Committee; Mary McHenry, Chairman of Ladies Committee on the Restaurant; Mrs. G. T. Lewis, Vice Chairman; F. P. Steel, Treasurer; Mary P. Norris, Treasurer.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 328
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 8 D 983
Accompanied by P.S. Duval & Son 's "Great Central Fair Buildings, Philadelphia" souvenir card.
Subject United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Branch.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Certificates -- 1860-1870.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Ba 8 D 983