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. "ChromoLithography of M.H. Traubel 409 Chestnut St. Phila."--text, bottom right margin.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by Wm. M. Cooper, C.V. Fort & Co. in the Clerks Office in the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn."--text, bottom center margin.
"Committee - S.W. Nickles. / E.S. Cooper. / E.T. Hall. / L.W. Thornton. / P. Fitzpatrick. / Thomas H. Rice. / J. Coward. / A.H. Cain. / Ic. Plant. / Wm. R.S. Cooper. / C.V. Fort. / B. Frank Palmer. / H.W. Pearce. / Capt. A.D. Davis. / Wm. M. Cooper. / Wm. M. Maull. / A. Simpson. / Wm. Sprole. / R.G. Simpson. / J.J. Hill / W.T.H. Dennis. / R.H. Hoffner. / J. Plant. / L.B.M. Dolby. / W.R. Melon. / R.H. Ransley. / T.L. Coward. / Wm. H. Morrison. / H.H. Webb."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 87.63 x 65.09 cm (34 1/2 x 25 5/8 in.)
Columbia (Symbolic character)--Pictorial works Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon--Pictorial works Dining rooms--Pictorial works Eagles--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Large Size American Civil War The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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