Details
Creator Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897.
Contributor Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, copyright holder.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union Volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Chromolithography of M. H. Traubel, 409 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date c1862
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 72 x 50 cm. (28.75 x 20 in.)
Description Print containing an exterior and interior view of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon situated near the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad station, the transportation hub between the North and the South. Exterior view shows recently arrived troops marching toward and into the saloon passed civilians and intermingling soldiers, including Zouaves. Banners and flags promoting the Cooper Shop and soliciting contributions adorn the saloon buildings. Interior view shows the saloon committee gathered in the dining hall in front of a long table at which soldiers dine. Female volunteers attend to the men who also stand at a dining bar. Also shows officers dining at a smaller table to the right next to an unidentified woman, possibly Mrs. William M. Cooper, posed near the committee. The names of the thirty committee members are printed below the image. Also contains the figure of liberty astride an eagle in front of a banner printed "Unanimitas Hodie Et In Aeterum Virtus, Libertas et Indepentia." The Saloon, established in 1861 in the old cooperage of William M. Cooper & Co., was a volunteer relief agency that provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 400, 000 military personnel, refugees, and freedmen.
Depicted committee members include S.W. Nickles; E.S. Cooper; L.W. Thornton; E.T. Hall; Philip Fitzpatrick; J. Coward; Thomas H. Rice; A.H. Cairn; Isaac Plant; Wm. R.S. Cooper; B. Frank Palmer; C.V. Fort; H.W. Pearce; Capt. A.O. Davis; William M. Maull; E. Herety; A.M. Simpson; William Sprole; R.G. Simpson; J.J. Hill; William H. Dennis; L.B.M. Dolby; Jacob Plant; Walter R. Melon; R.H. Ransley; T.L. Coward; Wm. H. Morrison; and H.H. Webb.
Is referenced by Wainwright 85
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 197
Notes Copyrighted by Wm. M. Cooper, C.V. Fort & Co., (i.e., Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon Committee)
Contains the seal of the Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloon blindstamped on the recto.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 160
Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C7849.
Original watercolor of exterior scene held in the collections of HSP.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals materials.
Subject Cooper, William M -- Portraits.
Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon -- Buildings.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel -- Union.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work.
Ostego Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1009.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Printer Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, copyright holder.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W85 [5778.F Cooper Shop]
Accession number 5778.F Cooper Shop