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Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title [Certificate of membership on the committee of ships and ship builders in behalf of the Great Central Fair of the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware] Great Central Fair, for the United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia June 1864. [graphic] / Desd. & on stone by James Queen.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. of P.S. Duval & Son
Date 1864
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 40 x 54 cm. (15.75 x 21.25 in.)
Description Committee membership certificate containing six vignettes and two scenes related to ship building and the Sanitary Fair. Scenes at the top and bottom edges show ships under construction at dry dock and visitors entering the Union Avenue entrance of the fair. Ship building scene shows several ship builders at work in front of and on the hull of a ship at dry dock at the river. A completed ship on a floating dry dock and ships in the water complete the view. Scene also includes a large America Flag incorporated as a pictorial element from the bottom scene and the motto "The Wealth and the Strength of the Nation." The fair scene shows throngs of people entering the arch-shaped entrance to the central passage of the fair site at Logan Square. A large flag pole ascends from the building. Vignettes create a side border and depict workshop scenes of the different professions within ship building. Laborers form the hull of a rowboat, sand and shave wood planks and huge spars (i.e. masts), sew sails, blacksmith using an anvil and hot coal from a furnace, and craft parts of the rigging. Many of the scenes include the tools of the trade, raw materials, and views out of the open entryways of the workshops toward vessels on the river. Vignettes surrounded by scroll flourishes. Also includes the names of committee members by their profession - Ship Builders, Boat Builders, Ship Joiners, Ship Smiths, Spar Makers, Riggers, Block Makers, and Sail Makers. Members include Henry Hoover, William Cramp, Joseph Albertson, Jonathan Jenks, Henry Delaney, Thomas Humphreys, William Hugg, and George Brazier. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Is referenced by Wainwright 48
Notes Title supplied by Wainwright.
Issued to Henry Delaney. Signed by Charles H. Cramp, Chairman; Preston Brearly, Secy.; and John W. Lynn, Treasr.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 99
Hagley Museum and Library: BSIDE
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Subject Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Boat & ship industry -- Middle Atlantic States.
Workshops -- Middle Atlantic States.
Laborers -- Middle Atlantic States.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Certificates -- 1860-1870.
Location Hagley Museum and Library| Imprints | HML BSIDE
Accession number HML BSIDE

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