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[Interior and exterior of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon hospital, southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886.
Title
[Interior and exterior of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon hospital, southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[ca. 1863]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 32 x 52 cm.(12.5 x 21 in.)
Description
Proof print containing side by side views of the volunteer hospital situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South. Interior view (left) shows a hospital ward. Mainly empty beds line the walls, including a small draped off area, and a male and female volunteer (carrying a tray of medicine) attend to two patients, one seated, and the other in a bed. The ward also includes a stove, books resting on a draped table, and framed prints adorning the walls. Exterior view (right) shows a patient arriving by gurney outside of the small hospital building that is adorned with a flag pole and eagle ornament. A volunteer waits by the open door as children and female passers-by watch the scene. Also includes two boys playing on a wood gate, two dogs in the street, and the main building of the volunteer saloon in the background.
Notes
Attributed to James Queen.
Not in Wainwright.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Philadelphia on Stone
Library of Congress: DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital
Subject
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel -- Union.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Proofs. -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital
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