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Title: The Hippotheatron and New York Cirque, opposite the Academy of Music, 14th Street a liberal per centage of the gross daily receipts is given to the funds of the fair : grand equestrian, gymnastic and acrobatic performances
Description: The Hippotheatron contributed to the Metropolitan Fair. Cf. A record of the Metropolitan Fair: in aid of the United States Sanitary Commission held at New York in April, 1864. New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1867., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Hippotheatron (New York, N.Y.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Hippo 5781.F.89

Title: Great Central Fair for the Sanitary Commission [certificate]
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., 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.
Date: [1864]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 8 D 983

Title: The Christian friends of our brave soldiers, of all denominations, are invited to attend a meeting! to be held in the vestry rooms of the Moravian Church, Sunday, 13th inst. at 4 1/2 o'clock P.M. to take into consideration measures for organizing an Army Committee, auxiliary to the United States Christian Commission. Bethlehem, March 10, 1864
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Christian (2)5786.F.21b (McAllister)

Title: Soldiers Rest, Alexandria, Va. [graphic].
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events., Bird's eye view of the rest station and "lodge for invalid soldiers" operated by the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization. Shows an enclosed barracks flanked by tents and railroad tracks. Soldiers walk, relax, and drill on the grounds as others disembark and arrive via locomotive. Also shows the railroad roundhouse in the far left background near signage reading "Sanitary Commission Lodge for Invalid Soldiers" and "Soldiers Rest U.S. Sanitary Commission"; horse-drawn wagons travelling past and into the barracks; and the surrounding town.
Creator: Magnus, Charles., creator
Date: c1864.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Hospitals [5779.F.57]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital
Description: Series of titled views of the exterior and interior of the facilities of the Civil War volunteer relief agency near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues in Philadelphia. Predominately shows the patriotically adorned refreshment saloon with male and female members of the working committee, staff, and a patient in a robe posed among rows of tables set for a dining service. Also includes a view of patients posed near beds and a model ship in a ward at the hospital and a large crowd of men and boys standing in front of the hospital and saloon. Exterior also shows a parital view of the cannon, known as "Fort Brown." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency in operation between 1861-1865 provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen., Yellow mounts with square corners., Accompanied by publisher's labels inscibed with titles., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper and Union Shop Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Associations [5778.F.26b & c; 27a, ax, bx & c]

Title: What the employees of the Philadelphia Navy Yard have done for the Great Central Fair (held in Philadelphia, June, 1864.)
Description: Lists, by department, all workers who contributed to the campaign, for a total of $3,391.60., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.). Committee on Labor, Incomes and Revenues, Committee on Labor, Incomes and Revenues
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Great (2)5781.F.11 (McAllister)

Title: Woman and the war Woman has acted her part nobly in this war. She has toiled and sacrificed, suffered and died to relieve the wants and sufferings of our needy, sick and wounded soldiers. ... A work is now in press, to be published in New York, by N.C. Miller, and in this city by E.G. Storke, of the Auburn Publishing Co., bearing the following title: The heroines of the Civil War: comprising biographical sketches of the leading actors in soldiers' aid societies, in the sanitary and Christian commissions and in hospitals, camps, etc., etc., with notices of their patiotic devotion to our suffering soldiers. A record of true womanly heroism
Description: The publication in the advertisement has not been traced., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Woman (2)5786.F.63b (McAllister)

Title: Metropolitan Fair, April, 1864 The Executive Committee would call the attention of the public to the photographic studio, Station 77 (3d story, over the Furniture Department), under the management of Messrs. Gurney & Son, who are prepared to make cartes de visite and vignettes of all favoring them with a sitting, at the liberal price of $5.00 per dozen, in aid of the Sanitary Commission
Description: Printed on card stock; printed area, including ruled border, measures 24.5 x 31.1 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.). Executive Committee, Executive Committee
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Metro (2)5781.F.130a (McAllister)

Title: National Sailors' Fair An effort is about to be made to establish a home, free to seamen and marines disabled in our naval service. It is proposed to acquire the means of founding such an institution through the instrumentality of a great National Sailors' Fair, to be held in Boston, Mass., in the early part of November next
Description: Caption title, with first lines of text., The fair was held Nov. 9-19, 1864., Signed on p. [2]: William Perkins, Albert Fearing, Gardiner Howland Shaw, committee on finance., Last page blank., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Sailors' Fair (1864 : Boston, Mass.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Nat Sailor (1)5781.F.142b (McAllister)

Title: Testimonial to Samuel B. Fales Esq. from the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee
Description: Certificate commemorating Fale's service to the committee. Includes a decorative floral border containing a profile vignette portrait of Fales captioned "The Soldier's Friend", an American eagle, the figures of liberty and justice, interior and exterior views of the Union volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital, and a battle scene., Signed October 25, 1863 by Arad Barrows, Chairman; John B. Smith, W. S. Mason, Curtis Myers, committee on testimonial; and Joseph B. Wade, secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 747, Dunton was a Philadelphia teacher.
Creator: Dunton, Alvin R.
Date: 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Philadelphia Certificates - Charitable organizations [7853.F]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon working committee
Description: Shows a large group of men posed within a dining hall of the refreshment saloon near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. View includes a boy, garland adornments, and a long table set for a dining service. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the volunteer relief agency in operation between 1861-1865 provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen., Unmounted stereograph., Title from accompanying publisher's label., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Associations [P.2004.23]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital. [graphic] / F.J. Queen, del. & lith.
Description: P.2002.50.4 issued October 4, 1862 for one box of lint. Signed by F. B. Wade, Secretary., Inscribed on recto of 5778.F.24c: Over 10,000 of these issued to children & others for lint & sanitary stores, bandages, etc. Sam B. Fales., Inscribed on verso of 5778.F.24c: John A. McAllister, Esq. from S.B. Fales., Created postfreeze., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper Shop and Union Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals., Certificate containing an exterior view of the buildings of the Civil War volunteer relief agency and an interior scene with an injured soldier. View shows soldiers arriving and departing from the saloon and hospital near the waterfront. Scene shows a soldier seated on his bed receiving boxes of lint from a girl and boy who are attired in red, white, and blue. A picnic-like display of fruit, jars of jams, and a basket of bottles lays on the floor. Also includes the names of the committee members.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Philadelphia certificates - Hospitals - Union [5778.F.24c: P.2002.50.4]

Title: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union Volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: 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., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C7849., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals materials., 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.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897., creator
Date: c1862.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W085.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W85 [5778.F]

Title: View of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, Philadelphia, where over 300,000 Union soldiers have been fed. [graphic] / Schell del; Adrian - Probasco sc.
Description: Signature of Corresponding Secretary inscribed on recto: S.B. Fales., Inscribed on recto of 5778.F.8c: Organized May 27th 1861 - finally closed Dec. 1st 1865 - torn down Jany 3, 1866 - 1,025,000 meals furnished to soldiers, sailors, freedmen & c. SBF, Inscribed on recto of P.2006.1: John Mcallister Jr. with regards of Samuel B. Fales. Organized May 27th 1861 - finally closed Dec. 1st 1865 - torn down Jany 3, 1866 - 1,025,000 meals furnished to soldiers, sailors, freedmen & c. SBF, Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper Shop and Union Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals., Exterior view showing heavy street activity in front of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train arrives on the grounds, soldiers line up to enter the saloon, fire company wagons being used as ambulances pass in the streets; and a crowd of men and women stand near a policeman. Contains the names of committee officers and members below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing.
Creator: Adrian & Probasco, engraver., creator, Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, delineator., creator
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Ph Pr - 11x14 - Associations [5778.F.8c; 9a; 30b; P.2006.1.27]

Title: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union Volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: 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., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C7849., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals materials., 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.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897., creator
Date: c1862.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W085.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W85 [5778.F]

Title: United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Agency. No. 27 South Sixth Street Aid societies in the country, sending boxes or packages should have them legibly directed to Robert M. Lewis, U.S. Sanitary Commission, No. 27 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, and send them by railroad or otherwise. The freight will be settled for by the Philadelphia Agency. Any of the publications of the commission may be had, or further information obtained, by addressing the superintendent, at the depository. Supplies wanted for the hospitals
Description: Letter on p. [3]-[4], signed and dated at end: C.J. Stillé, W.H. Ashhurst, Thos. Kimber, Jr., Hugh Davids, Geo. M. Conarroe, committee on the depository. Philadelphia, February, 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia Branch
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Uni Sta Sanitary (2)5781.F.57c (McAllister)

Title: [Interior and exterior of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon hospital, southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues, Philadelphia]
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., 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
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard," and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by scroll ornaments, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens, and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., Second state., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 813.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 U 58b (3 copies). Two of HSP copies contain blind stamp of B.S. Brown.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W438.2 [P.9001.2]

Title: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union Volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia
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., 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.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W85 [5778.F Cooper Shop]

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard, and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by filigree, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. and freedmen., Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., First state., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 V 58c
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia. [graphic] : Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861 / J. Queen, del. & lith.
Description: Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: [1863]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W412.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W412 [5778.F]

Title: View of the Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons. [graphic] / Lith. from nature by J. Queen; Printed in colors by T. Sinclair. Philada.
Description: Print trimmed., Gift of Isadore Lichstein., Civil War souvenir print containing six views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at the southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues and the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at 1009 Ostego Street. Contains a large central view of the exterior of the Union Saloon with troops arriving, entering the dining saloon, and departing on a Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad car as crowds of people flock around them. Other views depict soldiers using the wash basins adjoining the Cooper Shop Saloon; pro-Union flags and Saloon banners; the Union Saloon's outside washing and cooking departments including an African American man carrying a pail of food; and interiors of both saloons where male and female volunteers attend to long tables of food and a large simmering vat on a hearth. Contains an eagle clutching large American flags and a pro-Union banner above the scenes. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South, the relief organizations provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 1,000,000 military personnel, sailors, refugees, and freedmen during the war.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
Date: c1861.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W434.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W434 [P.9001.6]

Title: View of the Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons. [graphic] / Lith. from nature by J. Queen; Printed in colors by T. Sinclair. Philada.
Description: Print trimmed., Gift of Isadore Lichstein., Civil War souvenir print containing six views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at the southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues and the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at 1009 Ostego Street. Contains a large central view of the exterior of the Union Saloon with troops arriving, entering the dining saloon, and departing on a Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad car as crowds of people flock around them. Other views depict soldiers using the wash basins adjoining the Cooper Shop Saloon; pro-Union flags and Saloon banners; the Union Saloon's outside washing and cooking departments including an African American man carrying a pail of food; and interiors of both saloons where male and female volunteers attend to long tables of food and a large simmering vat on a hearth. Contains an eagle clutching large American flags and a pro-Union banner above the scenes. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South, the relief organizations provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 1,000,000 military personnel, sailors, refugees, and freedmen during the war.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
Date: c1861.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W434.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W434 [P.9001.6]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia. [graphic] : Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861 / J. Queen, del. & lith.
Description: Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: [1863]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W412.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W412 [5778.F]

Title: Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861
Description: Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, freedom seekers. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865., Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 771, Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto of 5778.F Union Volunteer: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Manuscript note on recto of P.2023.2: Mr. McNally with the compliments of Samuel B. Fales, No. 707 Vine St. Philadelphia., Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2021., P.2023.2 gift of Philadelphia Magazine., Digital image shows 5778.F Union Volunteer., Queen was a premier Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, who served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W412 [5778.F Union Volunteer and P.2023.2]

Title: View of the Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons
Description: Civil War souvenir print containing six views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at the southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues and the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at 1009 Ostego Street. Contains a large central view of the exterior of the Union Saloon with troops arriving, entering the dining saloon, and departing on a Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad car as crowds of people flock around them. Other views depict soldiers using the wash basins adjoining the Cooper Shop Saloon; pro-Union flags and Saloon banners; the Union Saloon's outside washing and cooking departments including an African American man carrying a pail of food; and interiors of both saloons where male and female volunteers attend to long tables of food and a large simmering vat on a hearth. Contains an eagle clutching large American flags and a pro-Union banner above the scenes. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South, the relief organizations provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 1,000,000 military personnel, sailors, refugees, and freedmen during the war., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to An Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by Job T. Williams in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 806, Print trimmed., Gift of Isadore Lichstein, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W434 [P.9001.6]

Title: Civil War Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals Ephemera Collection. 1861-1868 (inclusive)
Description: The Civil War Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals Ephemera Collection holds ephemera and a few pieces of correspondence (including letters to and from Samuel Bradford Fales, William M. Cooper, and Arad Barrows) that illustrate and describe the workings of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, and both of their hospitals. The ephemera is somewhat similar for each group, and consists primarily of donation acknowledgements, event tickets and programs, flyers, and circular letters that the committees used to raise funds., At the start of the American Civil War, thousands of enlisted men from the northeast arrived in Philadelphia on their way to fight in the South. No government or military agencies had made provisions for feeding or caring for these transients, so Philadelphians citizens founded the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. Both saloons opened for service in late May 1861. At no charge to the servicemen, they provided meals, newspapers, bathing facilities, changes of underwear and socks, and assistance in writing letters to families. Between them, the saloons operated twenty-four hours a day and depended solely on contributions of time and goods from neighborhood citizens and merchants. Those donations were supplemented by funds raised at a benefit fairs, concerts, and lectures held around the city, some of which benefited both organizations.
Creator: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts MSS McA 5778.F (McAllister)

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862 Erected September 5th 1862 for temporary relief of sick and wounded soldiers, arriving in and passing through Philadelphia. Closed August 9th 1865
Description: Certificate containing a view showing a bustling street scene around the hospital situated opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot at the corner of Broad Street and Washington Avenue. On the sidewalk, soldiers converse, men and women pedestrians stroll, and a female peddler and vendor sell their goods and wares, the latter patronized by Zouaves. In the street, medical personnel and doctors accompany injured soldiers, by stretcher, foot, and on crutches toward the hospital. Men, women, and children walk, converse, and greet each other, and horse-drawn carriages, including possibly an ambulance, travel past and stop near the hospital. Children include a boy carrying a basket and two attempting to help a man with his valise. Also shows surrounding buildings in the background. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. The hospital closed on August 11, 1865., Signed Thomas T. Tasker Junr President and F. Bayle Secretary pro tem., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 129, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Variant of image used as central scene in Wainwright 69.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W67 [P.8650]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital, corner of Broad St. & Washington Avenue
Description: Print containing a montage of 11 exterior and interior views of the volunteer hospital opened September 5, 1862 opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot. Central view shows a bustling street scene outside of the hospital. Horse-drawn carriages, possibly including an ambulance, arrive and depart; injured soldiers are carried by stretcher and assisted by fellow soldiers to the building; male and female pedestrians converse and traverse the streets; two boys attempt to help a man with his valise; and Zouaves patronize a female vendor's stand. Other views show the "Interior of Hospital" where women volunteers and doctors attend to bed-ridden soldiers; the "Kitchen" equipped with an ice box, cooking stove, and heating stove where two women prepare food on a counter; the "Dining Room" in which several soldiers eat at three long rows of tables near a heating stove; the "Laundry" room where women sort, fold, and wash cloths in a sink, near a large vat of boiling water; the "Ladies Kitchen" containing cupboards of dishware, a small cooking stove, and a rack of cooking utensils in which three women work; the "Wash Room" in which four men wash up at a trough of sinks; the "Drug Room" in which a pharmacist distills drugs for a soldier and women volunteer in front of a wall of medicinal bottles; a female volunteer at the counter of the "Store Room" attended by a man surrounded by several shelves packed with supplies; the "Bath Room" lined with tubs in which a soldier begins to undress; and female volunteers setting tables in the "Officers Dining Room.", Also includes two American flags draped over the borders of one of the views. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. Closed on August 11, 1865., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Queen--Citizens ... (D size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581 b copy 1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581 b copy 2, HSP copy 2 missing blue tint stone.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Queen--Citizens ... (D size) [P&P]

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