Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
P.S. Duval & Son, publisher.
Title Independence Square recruiting camps. [graphic]. James Queen del.
Publisher Philadelphia : P. S. Duval & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date 1862
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph; 9 x 12 cm. (3.25 x 4.75 in.)
Description Trade card depicting well-dressed children on the central promenade of Independence Square when used as Camp Independence, Civil War recruitment camp, in September and October 1862. Tents manned by soldiers line the promenade and the children who carry drums, flags, and a hoop, walk between a group of men and a mother and son. Mary Shoemaker operated from 2 North Eighth Street circa 1862-circa 1864.
Is referenced by Wainwright 183.
Notes Printed on recto: Childrens Central Clothing Emporium. M. Shoemaker No. 2 North Eighth Street Philadelphia.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 380
Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Philadelphia on Stone
Subject Shoemaker, Mary.
United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Children -- Clothing & dress.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women-owned business enterprises -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Independence Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Tradecards -- 1860-1870.
Printer P.S. Duval & Son, publisher.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W183 [(2)5786.F.138b]
Accession number (2)5786.F.138b