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Title: Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home Academy of Music Philadelphia October 23. to November 4. 1865
Description: Wholly engraved., 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 (2)5781.F.25b (McAllister)

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: Benefit of the Fair for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home The Typographical Dramatic Association have the honor to announce a grand performance at the Academy of Music, on Saturday ev'ng, Sept. 16, 1865, on which extraordinary occasion they will be assisted by the Philadelphia Saengerbund, ... An engagement has also been effected with the Germania Orchestra, ... The proceeds of this great exhibition will be handed over to the managers of the Soldiers' and Sailors Home, of Philadelphia, for the benefit of the fair to be held in October, ... The bill for the evening will consist of J. Sheridan Knowles' beautiful play of The wife: a tale of Mantua. ... Price of admission, 50 cents. Family circle and amphitheatre, 25 cents. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Performance commences quarter to 8 precisely. Box sheets now open at Chas. W.A. Trumpler's Music Store, S.E. corner Seventh and Chesnut, and at the Academy of Music
Description: Head-piece shows a disabled soldier and a disabled sailor flanking a sick room scene., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Typographical Dramatic Association
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Typo (1)5781.F.35a (McAllister)

Title: Soldiers Home in the city of Philadelphia. This certifies that [Charles Macalester] having contributed the sum of [fifty] dollars is constituted a [life] member of the Soldiers Home. Philada
Description: Certificate containing an allegorical scene depicting a central, winged female figure, seated, and surrounded by wounded soldiers and other female figures. The central figure has long, dark hair, adorned with a headband, and is attired in a toga with a drape-like shawl. Her arms are outstretched to her sides. Celestial light frames her head. In her left hand, she holds an olive branch. Broken shackles adorn her right wrist. In her lap, a loose scales of justice rests atop a sword. At her feet, a pair of white and African American soldiers and sailors sits and lies. In the left, the white soldier, a bandage on his arm, sits on a bound volume, near a canteen, and in front of the seated African American soldier. The latter wears a bandage on his head and rests the right side of his head on his right hand. The white soldier holds up a sheet of paper inscribed "Honorable Discharge" to the winged figure. The white sailor sits across from the white soldier. His head and left arm are bandaged and crutches rest by his side. He extends his right hand and holds his cap out to the winged figure. The African American sailor, prone, and partially visible behind him, does the same. American flags, on their sides and their upper poles adorned with wreaths of garland, rest among the soldiers and sailors. Four allegorical female figures, two and two, flank the central figure. To her left, one holds a basket of bounty as the other (behind her) tosses wreathes of garland. To her right, one holds a pocket watch as the other (behind her) shoots lightning from her hand. In the left background, wreathes rain upon soldiers, some in bandages, who march and carry American flags. In the right background, lightning bolts strike an ironclad ship on open waters., The soldiers home chartered in 1862, opened in December 1863, and incorporated in 1864 was an outgrowth of the relief organization, the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. The founding relief organization provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, sailors, refugees, and free people during the war. The Soldiers Home was chartered with the mission of "the providing of a temporary or permanent Home for all persons who, while in the military service of the United States of America, either upon land or sea, shall become disable from wounds, or from sickness, so that they are unable to perform the ordinary avocations of life." The Soldiers Home operated until 1889 when the Board of Managers dissolved itself and turned the home over to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States., Title from item, Date inferred from year organization was chartered., Completed in manuscript on January 1, 1866 and signed by E. S. Hall, Secretary; Ellerslie Wallace, President; and Wm. Struthers, Treasurer., Charles Macalester was a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist. Macalester College is named for him., Gift of David Doret, 2002., For a history of the Home, including the process to transfer administration of the home to the Loyal Legion, see Ferdinand Sermiento, ed., Historical Sketch of the Soldiers' Home ... (1886) [Am 1886 Phi Sol Hom 24755.O]., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia certificates - Organizations - Soldiers [P.2002.40.1]

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