Photo, Print, Drawing Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia. Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia. Being the First Institution of the Kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861
About this Item
Title
- Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia.
Other Title
- Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia. Being the First Institution of the Kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861
Summary
- This print is a lively scene from November 1863 containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased for free from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the saloon was a volunteer relief agency that provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It assisted more than 800,000 men and served 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865. The print shows a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, which was fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the arrival of the troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the battlefields in the South. American flags dot the landscape. The varied crowd includes a military band and an African American man. The names of committee members and volunteers are listed below the image. The print is by James Fuller Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer who served in the Civil War militia in 1862--63.
Names
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 Artist.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : T. Sinclair's Lithography, 1863.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1863
- - Canteens (Establishments)
- - Chromolithographs
- - Crowds
- - Hospitals
- - Marching bands
- - Soldiers
- - Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Digital catalog number: POS 771"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : chromolithograph, hand-colored ; 66 x 81 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
- - Content in English.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Philadelphia on Stone
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670447
Online Format
- compressed data
- image