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Title: A promenade concert will be given at the Masonic Hall on Thursday evening, May 12th, for the benefit of the Sociers' Union Fair
Description: May 12 fell on a Thursday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: May Flower Association
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 May (1)5781.F.4a (McAllister)

Title: Hospital slippers for the sick and wounded soldiers of the Union Directions. Cut the lining three-quarters of an inch larger than the outside all round, turn over and stich through, over seam the backs together and sew to the soles--round them out a little to shape the heel, stitch it each side of the seam to the sole flaps which are turned up at the heel. Old material of any color or pattern that will make a warm slipper will answer. ... The patterns and directions furnished gratis by Henry C. Blair, druggist, Southwest corner of Eighth and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia. Persons at a distance will receive them by mail on sending a post office stamp, with their address. Slippers sent to H.C. Blair as above, will be handed over at once to the "Ladies' Aid Society," through which they will be judiciously distributed to the various hospitals over the country
Description: The broadside is cut in the shape of the slipper pattern., An endorcement of the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia by George B. McClellan is dated Oct. 21, 1861., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Blair, Henry C.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Blair (2)5786.F.120b (McAllister)

Title: Our diagrams for army socks having been found useful, we herewith submit one for army mittens Those who may be disposed to knit mittens for the army, may forward them through the Women's Central Relief Association No. 814 Broadway, New-York. Specifications may be had by applying to
Description: The illustration is an outline of a mitten., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: John J. Hinchman & Co.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 John (2)5786.F.119a

Title: Fair for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. To the citizens of the United States The Ladies Visiting Committee of the Soldiers' Home, in the city of Philadelphia, propose to open a national fair at the Academy of Music, on the twenty-third day of October next, for the purpose of raising a building and endowment fund for the institution with which they are connected
Description: Caption title, with first lines of text., Signed on p. [3] by forty-four prominent Pennsylvania men, and dated: Philadelphia, April 14th, 1865., "Donations in money for the fair may be sent to Wm. Struthers, treasurer, No. 1022 Market Street. Donations in goods, provisions, &c., may be sent to the Soldiers' Home, corner of Race and Crown Streets, Philadelphia, marked to care of Mrs. D. Haddock, Jr., president, or Mrs. J. Horner, secretary. All donations duly acknowledged. Philadelphia, May 23d, 1865."--p. [3]., Printer's name from p. [3]., Head-piece on p. [1] shows a disabled soldier and a disabled sailor flanking a sick room scene., Printed on p. [1] and [3] only., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Soldiers and Sailors Home Fair (1865 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Soldiers (1)5781.F.142c (McAllister)

Title: Fruit festival for the benefit of disabled soldiers to be held at Citizens' Hall, Saturday, August 30th
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Bethlehem Mite Society (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Bethlehem (6)5777.F.35 (McAllister)

Title: Captain A.R. Calhoun will deliver a lecture on "Prison life in the land of chivalry," on Thursday evening, the 13th inst., at the hall of the "Ladies' Soldiers' Aid," of Weldon, Montgomery Co., in aid of the sick & wounded soldiers. Admission, 25 cts. A band of music will be in attendance. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Lecture commences at half-past 7 o'clock
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Ladies' Soldiers' Aid (Weldon, Pa.)
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Ladies (6)5777.F.34a (McAllister)

Title: Pike's Opera House! Reading by Mr. James E. Murdoch! For the benefit of the sick soldiers! Under the auspices of the Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society! On Tuesday evening, Feb. 4th. Subject: The wild wagoner of the Alleghenies! A new and unpublished patriotic poem of the days of seventy-six, by Mr. T. Buchanan Read! Admission 50 cents. Doors open at seven o'clock
Description: Feb. 4 fell on a Tuesday in 1862., Printed in blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 5# Am 1862 Ladies (5)5777.F.9 (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)

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