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Image of interior and exterior views of Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, near the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad station during the American Civil War; exterior view includes rows of soldiers at attention, civilians, and signs and flags for the saloon, with a goddess Columbia figure holding an American flag riding a bald eagle in clouds; interior view includes soldiers at tables of food in dining hall, men of the Committee in suits in foreground, and American flag draperies along wall and ceiling.
Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
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Image of interior and exterior views of the Volunteer Refreshment Saloon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War; soldiers board a Philadelphia & Baltimore Railroad troop train as spectators cheer; interior views of washing department, dining saloon and cooking department; bald eagle with American flags and laurel wreath frame a portrait of General Winfield Scott at bottom center; facsimile signatures of committee members in bottom margin.
Image of Union army marching in ranks past a crowd of civilians in front of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon as lines of soldiers file from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, docks towards the troop trains; American flag on pole at center; crowd includes a band and an African American man; names of committee members and volunteers in bottom margin.
Image of six interior and exterior vignettes of the Volunteer Refreshment Saloons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including the cooking and washing departments, dining hall, and a view of the buildings' exterior with parade and locomotive at center; bald eagle with American flags and shield at top center; list of names from the Volunteer Refreshment Committee in bottom margin; image of Volunteer Refreshment Committee hospital exterior in mylar on verso.
Image of the Citizens Volunteer Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War; exterior view of hospital at center surrounded by ten interior views depicting women and soldiers in the kitchen, dining room, laundry, officers dining room, bath room, store room, ladies kitchen, wash room, drug room, and hospital room; decorative frame with draped American flags at bottom center.
Image of an aerial view of Satterlee General Hospital buildings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, surrounded by military camp tents, soldiers, horse drawn vehicles, and dirt roads with American flag flying at center and landscape beyond; captions in bottom margin tell history of and amenities at the hospital along with names of principal officers.
Image of a blank military certificate with three vignettes of American Civil War military scenes: Union soldiers marching with fife, drum, and American flag, soldiers manning a cannon, and troops on foot and on horseback march down a road past a grave marked "Grave of the Brave" as an African-American woman, man and boy with dog look on.
